The government's approach to the commercialisation of public-sector science has been slated by MPs. The Treasury says that commercialising research is key to stimulating greater economic and social...
Corporate universities such as Motorola U and the BT Academy could soon compete with traditional public-sector universities for students wanting a vocational education, two Open University Business...
"Bitter legacies" could cripple the government's manifesto commitment to the National Health Service University, according to analysis from the Nuffield Trust. From Conception to Birth: A Policy...
The University of Wales is to investigate allegations that a PhD was granted at Lampeter University even though examiners viewed its thesis as "a shoddy piece of work" and suspected that sections of...
Health inspectors were called to Cambridge University after a vial containing an HIV virus protein exploded in a genetic-modification containment facility, the Health and Safety Executive has...
When the first cellular life forms stirred on the earth, viruses may have already been poised to infect them, writes Steve Farrar. A radical hypothesis that seeks to bring order to the previously...
The deal is straightforward. In return for some careful grooming, a female baboon is allowed to cuddle another's infant until the mother asks for its return, writes Steve Farrar. The exchange rate...
Edinburgh and Warwick universities are set to save thousands of pounds annually after winning government support for an innovative community heating scheme, writes Olga Wojtas. The universities are...
Some of the most successful managers in Scotland's colleges are to form a radical new directorate within the Scottish Further Education Funding Council, helping to support colleges with difficulties...
A Russian university dean has been expelled from an Open Society Institute-funded summer school on human rights after she and other participants complained about standards of teaching and...
A burglary in which a number of examination scripts were destroyed is mystifying police and university authorities in Athens. Intruders at the Trans-University Centre for the Assessment and...
University Kebangsaan Malaysia has become the first local university to announce a 20 per cent cut in arts enrolments. Other universities are expected to make similar moves following an education...
A Canadian who used a forged 1977 medical degree to obtain an internship at McMaster University in Hamilton and then practised in Ontario for 15 years has pleaded guilty to fraud. Stephen Kai Yui...
The former president of the Asmara University students' union has escaped from Eritrea after a year in detention and has sought political asylum in Ethiopia. Semere Kesete hopes eventually to travel...
Fifty universities have been selected for a European University Association project to build an internal quality culture. Six thematic networks have been established: research management, teaching...