'Funding and goodwill have run out at UCL and Dr Link's laboratory mice are facing destruction, setting her research back years' Universities are facing historic constitutional reform to pave the way...
Members of the Association of University Teachers have condemned University College London for its treatment of Eva Link, an internationally renowned cancer researcher whose life work may collapse...
It's time to end the shabby gentility that pervades UK higher education, says Geoffrey Alderman. In all the rhetoric that has followed John Randall's resignation as chief executive of the Quality...
If academics do not speak out for truth, they fail themselves and their jobs, argues Bob Brecher The past 20 years have seen a drastic depoliticisation of all aspects of British life, a phenomenon at...
People write the most daunting books without a thought for those obliged to read them. Only after toiling through mountains of recondite folly do we find the courage to pronounce them worthless. Some...
Universities are putting increasing emphasis on student evaluation forms but, warns Zazie Todd, they can reveal more about gender biases than the quality of tuition. The last class has ended. The...
The future of computers is not artificial intelligence, says Peter Bentley, but true intelligence, in the form of software based on human biology. Children's toys are extraordinary these days. Little...
A US researcher with a passion for British beer is challenging assumptions that underlie many economic models - and finding that losing a few cents can be an unforgettable aid to classroom learning....
Medics fear there could be job losses as a result of the government's refusal to fund the research assessment exercise in full. This would be politically disastrous for a government seeking to bring...
Universities UK has attacked the decision to fund research more selectively than ever before. The government has not provided enough money to reward improved performance, measured by last year's...
Women and ethnic minorities are slowly muscling their way into the still largely white male field of academic economics, according to a report from the Royal Economic Society's committee on women in...
Cash machine giant NCR is giving £90,000 over three years to fund up to 30 computing and technology bursaries at the University of Abertay Dundee. The Dundee-based NCR Financial Solutions Group...
London Underground passengers are regularly exposed to high levels of airborne particulate pollutants. The first comparative study of personal exposure to PM2.5 - fine particles of soot and other...
Athletes' performing naked is considered a quintessentially ancient Greek custom. Scholars agree that widespread naked athletics began between 750 and 550BC, but little is known about the origins of...
University College Worcester may be leading a new wave of bids for full university status from higher education colleges. Encouraged by the creation of the University of Gloucestershire, and buoyed...