The Royal Irish Academy is undergoing its first root-and-branch review. Olga Wojtas reports The Royal Irish Academy was founded in 1785 with a charter from George III as a society for "promoting the...
A national cell bank could allow the UK to take the lead in stem-cell research, says the Wellcome Trust's Robert Terry The recent change in the law regulating the purposes for which human embryos can...
Universities 'on the cheap' will fail students Extra financial help for poorer students is no substitute for more money for the universities for teaching and research, MPs and peers told the...
Former quality boss John Randall this week emerged as a contender for chief executive of the government's University of the National Health Service. Mr Randall, who resigned as chief executive of the...
Research output at most of South Africa's leading universities has declined over the past eight years, according to government figures that measure productivity by articles in recognised publications...
A former member of the BSE Inquiry has questioned the competence of government departments to carry out research in the wake of the sheep and cattle brains muddle. Malcolm Ferguson-Smith called on...
Education secretary Estelle Morris announced this week that higher education was to be redefined, possibly to include some further education, as a platform on which the government would base its...
Hodge promises to consult on student finance The higher education sector will be consulted on government proposals to reform student finance, higher education minister Margaret Hodge has...
Vice-chancellors are spending resources earmarked for staff pay on peripheral and potentially discriminatory human resources initiatives, according to a survey by the Association of University...
Figures released today revealed small increases in the number of women and ethnic minority academics working as professors, senior lecturers and researchers. But lecturing unions say progress is...
The gap between academic salaries and comparable professions is widening as Bett's recommendations for pay increases remain unmet, an analysis by lecturers' union Natfhe has found. Figures released...
Funding chiefs are debating whether to further intervene in the workings of universities and colleges facing a crisis in student recruitment. The Higher Education Funding Council for England this...
The president of the shadow Nursing and Midwifery Council has announced a new "light-touch, streamlined, cost-effective and evidence-based" approach to quality assurance on nursing and midwifery...
Lecturers and vice-chancellors have united in calls for the abolition of all teaching quality inspection, squaring up for a confrontation with students over the future of university quality assurance...
Exam-room chaos, erroneous exam papers and cheating appear to be blighting students' progress at Wolverhampton University, according to responses to a student's complaint seen by The THES . Mike...