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...
Researchers at Paisley University have helped a local inventor develop a device aimed at combating chip pan fires, writes Olga Wojtas. Jim McConkey's revolutionary fire-proof chip pan was this week...
Dutch students should pay significantly more for their higher education, according to a government economic think-tank. In a study of the role of knowledge in the Dutch economy, published last month...
Serb students have drafted a policy paper outlining their vision for the reform of post-Milosovic universities. The Desired University identifies seven areas for reform that emerged from a December...
Guidelines aimed at cutting plagiarism will be drafted in Finland during the coming spring to cover dissertations at universities and diploma work at technical universities. The move was triggered by...
Paris Pierre Bourdieu, the French sociologist and philosopher, has died aged 71. Director of studies at the EHESS (School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences), he was elected to the Collège de...
Graciela Giannettasio, Argen-tina's new education minister, has vowed that she will draw on all her experience, workaholic energies and deep Christian faith to resolve her country's long-running...
Universities in British Columbia are awaiting details of the implications of the province's decision to freeze its education funding for three years. And in Ontario, there is speculation that the...
It was a chilly Kabul day. On the gravel outside Kabul University's dormitory for female students, a sea of empty shell casings was scattered at our feet. In front of us, the facade of the once...