How do you promote innovative science and start a scientific revolution? Historians and philosophers have long puzzled over this, as have science administrators hoping to foster breakthroughs through...
Women-only colleges have served their purpose; it's time for St Hilda's to move on, says Hilda Brown. As a non-Oxford graduate, my experience of Oxford University spans 40 years of working with an...
Academics backed by the Joint Information Systems Committee are working on a super-search engine to make the internet more useful for scholars. Other Jisc-backed projects were singled out for praise...
A £6 million deal to develop online learning and teaching was signed this week by the Joint Information Systems Committee and the US National Science Foundation. The five-year programme will pool the...
The University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology and Edinburgh and Dundee universities have been given more than £2 million from the government's community energy scheme. The scheme,...
Chemistry students learn theory diligently, but conveying what a chemist does is a different skill. Nigel Lowe and John Garratt conducted an experiment to broaden minds There are more research...
More than 40 per cent of buildings in Welsh further education colleges are not fit for their current use, according to a report from the auditor general for Wales. Bringing the estate up to scratch...
A £2 million initiative designed to give new direction to climate-change research was announced this week. The programme, which is funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council,...
Skill Scotland, the advisory body for students with disabilities, has praised Edinburgh University's proposed admissions shake-up that will consider whether applicants have disabilities.
Stark new divisions emerged today between teaching and research-led universities as England's higher education budgets were set for 2003-04. A £5.5 billion allocation represents a 6 per cent rise...
The last remaining women's college at Oxford University looks poised to admit men as resistance to change wanes. Undergraduates at St Hilda's College voted last week to retain the status quo - but...
His bank manager might not see the similarities, but in many ways, Marc Abrahams' life has mirrored that of Bill Gates. Both studied mathematics at Harvard University in the mid-1970s and both went...
James Humphreys , head of corporate communications at 10 Downing Street, has been appointed director of a masters course in politics at Kingston University, teaching political communication...
Evidence cited in the higher education white paper is more than 20 years out of date and presents a misleading picture of the relationship between research and teaching excellence, an expert said...
Universities that discuss common fee levels could be in breach of the 1998 Competition Act, the Office of Fair Trading warned this week. "If universities are discussing common fee levels, that is...