Two British-led networks of scientists are bidding for millions of pounds of European funding to drive forward blue-skies research into nanotechnology. The aim is to spawn collaborative projects by...
Huddersfield University sexually discriminated against lecturer Penelope Wolff when she was rejected for promotion by an all-male panel of deans who used a selection system that "lacked any rationale...
London medical schools are set to axe jobs despite government plans for the biggest single expansion in student doctor numbers in a generation. Guy's, King's and St Thomas's medical school, one of...
Libraries and their ability to supply learning and teaching resources in unconventional settings will be vital for universities to meet expansion targets, according to Sir Howard Newby, chief...
Forged degree certificates are being sold to obtain teaching posts in Montenegrin secondary schools, according to Vlajko Milicevic, who heads the country's fight against economic crimes.
The Board of Deputies of British Jews will not prosecute poet and Oxford academic Tom Paulin for inciting racial hatred in alleged remarks he made about Jewish settlers to an Egyptian newspaper,...
The University of Wales has ordered a thorough check of all publicity material produced by a private partner college in Germany, after investigations found that the partner had been making confusing...
Colleges are being pushed to form links with higher education but is it an initiative too far for an already stretched sector, asks Tony Tysome City and Islington College acting principal Frank...
Almost 50,000 lecturers may boycott any future research assessment exercise if funding chiefs fail to spell out in advance how the money will be allocated. After the outcry from lecturers, vice-...
Researchers have been told to carry on putting together proposals for the European Union's Sixth Research Framework Programme despite a row over ethics that is threatening to delay the programme....
The seven research councils will present themselves as one from now on, although there is no likelihood of merger, according to John Taylor, the research councils' director-general, writes Caroline...
Cambridge University is back in the High Court next week, as campaigning history lecturer Gill Evans seeks a judicial review of the university's procedures for promoting academic staff. Dr Evans...
The University of Toronto has settled a lawsuit with a British drugs researcher who alleged that an employment offer was revoked because he asserted a link between antidepressants and suicide....
Bristol University has defended one of its professors against tabloid accusations of taking organs from deceased babies without their families' consent. The university said the stories could damage...
The Court of Appeal has thrown out a landmark case on the rights of disabled people to study and practise medicine. Paraplegic Heidi Cox had won the right to sue the General Medical Council for...