We are only just beginning to understand the science of human ageing. I have been in the field for 25 years, but I realised quite early on that the conventional view we have of the ageing process -...
We need more basic research on climate change before we assign blame, Tony Brown writes. Since the late 1980s, climate change has been at the top of the environment-science agenda. The Rio summit set...
Last week in The THES Anita Sharda argued that more needs to be done to tackle institutional racism. Anita Sharda's article is timely, optimistic and inspirational. As a mixed-race educator, I can...
The web may be better at cutting red tape than advancing learning, says Frances Cairncross. Universities are expensive places to run. But Britain's best are global brand names, and they have long...
Graduates from Luton University are more employable than those from the universities of Oxford or Cambridge, according to performance indicators published this week. Every full-time degree student...
University leaders promise action as Scotland assesses progress on access, Olga Wojtas reports. Jackie Matthews left school in Aberdeen with no qualifications and went to work in a nursery. Aged 53,...
The education secretary has intervened to end confusion over investigations into mismanagement at Middlesex University. The results of a confidential report by the Higher Education Funding Council...
Monday Answer call for vets to help with foot-and-mouth outbreak. At the Staffordshire operations centre, I am briefed on our area. The county is not a foot-and-mouth hotspot, but is a growing cause...
The Open University 's honorary graduates for this year are: Jude Kelly , artistic director and chief executive of the West Yorkshire Playhouse; journalist Jon Snow ; clockwork radio inventor Trevor...
Frances Cairncross , management editor of The Economist, will take over from Bruce Smith as chair of the Economic and Social Research Council . John Doidge , former head of the Centre for Staff and...
Plymouth University has blown thousands of pounds on redesigning its logo. The logo - a terracotta circle with three stripes across its upper half - now sports a background water effect and an...
Luton University has much to be proud of. Not only are its graduates apparently more employable than those with Oxbridge degrees, but last week it was chosen to host a poetry event on behalf of the...
Admissions officers at the University of Surrey can expect a deluge of applications from chain-smoking layabouts. The university's human psychopharmacology research unit is looking for volunteers to...
Two members of the Scottish Parliament's enterprise and lifelong learning committee clashed last week - not over policies, but ancient Greek pronunciation. Liberal Democrat MSP George Lyon accused...
In the space of a few hours this week, Dianna Bowles managed to raise £60,000 to establish a gene bank in an 11th-hour bid to save the rare Herdwick sheep from extinction due to foot-and-mouth...