The High Court judgment by Mr Justice Elias raises key issues potentially affecting all university academics who carry out external paid research work. His draft judgment illuminates the grey world...
Funding allocations, full details, pages I-IV Large, research-led universities will take the lion's share of extra students enrolling next year as part of the expansion of higher education. In his...
'The critical finding, in our view, was that Professor Xydeas treated his subordinates evenhandedly, that is badly, without discriminating between the sexes' Manchester University has been cleared of...
Lecturers' union Natfhe has called on education secretary David Blunkett to investigate The THES's revelations that Derby University admitted students to degree courses in Israel without agreed...
University life can give a false sense of security - drug abuse, vandalism and theft are constant worries. Claire Sanders reports on campus policing One day last month Alan Naylor, head of security...
With massive government backing, Slovenia is developing a high-tech economy, say it's ministers. Michael de Laine reports. Proceeds from privatisation and massive government support are to be used in...
History's greatest prehistoric mariners, the Polynesians, may have first gained their sea legs in the waters between Taiwan and China, a new archaeological study has suggested. Research into the...
The days of conventional electronics could be numbered. Competing teams of scientists are preparing to announce the creation of memory chips that use the spin and not the charge of an electron to...
Plutonium from Soviet underwater nuclear tests has contaminated life in an Arctic bay and spread in a plume to one of the world's most important fisheries. In the first scientific investigation in...
International scientists are attempting to shed light on the dynamics of the universe's mass. Paul Bompard reports from Rome One of the most ambitious and costly experiments ever attempted in...
Researchers at the Gran Sasso laboratory believe they have detected particles that could explain one of the great mysteries of the universe. The details of the discovery will be announced this week...
The lives of Russia's street children mirror the post-communist society, in which adults are finding their way in an unknown world Since the start of the market reforms, the presence on the streets...
Students do better when we focus on how they take in facts and turn them into wisdom, say Barbara Gorayska and Chris Lonsdale Students, looking slightly bored and hassled, file into a lecture theatre...
The manager of Bairds Malt near Edinburgh emerges to meet the coach-load of postgraduates from Heriot-Watt University's international centre for brewing and distilling. "Do you want a beer to start...
The graduate labour market is becoming more diverse and fragmented, with traditional notions of the "graduate job" becoming increasingly unrealistic. The annual graduate review for 2000 of the...