Is the Quality Assurance Agency in too much of a hurry to implement its framework and methodology of quality assurance? As one much involved with the agency over the past two years, I sympathise with...
UK scientists agree money should be spent on European projects. But why are they not doing more to lead the challenge against the Americans? Steve Farrar reports. It split the last Conservative...
Collaboration between Sheffield Hallam and industry has unlocked the commercial potential of high-speed machine drilling. As a result of an interview between a Sheffield Hallam University professor...
Speech and language processing researchers are benefiting by comparing notes. They meet at the Royal Society this week, writes Wendy Barnaby. If you live in the United States, you can buy and sell...
Robert Boyle, the 17th-century philosopher celebrated as the founder of modern chemistry, was an alchemist who spent his life in pursuit of the mythical philosopher's stone, according to historians....
Britain's most far-flung football teams may have the most formidable grounds but will suffer when playing away, according to statisticians who have calculated how significant home advantage can be in...
Germany's main higher education and research bodies have held talks with Serbian academics to try to revive a dialogue in the wake of Nato's war on Serbia. The Rectors' Conference, the Alexander von...
St John's, Oxford University's second richest college, tops this year's table of the university's final examination results, maintaining its place among the leaders over the past six years. Last year...
Campaigning for extra money for the long-term future of higher education and research has intensified after a decision to advance the start of the next comprehensive spending review. Funding and...
Universities are bracing themselves for a stream of students needing emergency cash because their student loan cheques are not ready for collection, writes Alison Goddard. Education secretary David...
Last week in The THES...... Penelope Corfield argued that women's history should become part of a wider gender history June Purvis. Professor of women's and gender history, University of Portsmouth...
British universities still have to safeguard against spying, argues Christopher Andrew Three years ago a colleague at another university who had carried out historical research in the misnamed German...
Allowing students to claim housing benefit once more will help tackle poverty, argues Andrew Pakes The cost of housing affects every student. Even the so-called "me generation" has to pay rent....
'Some of the other students looked down on me for having a BTEC rather than A A levels' Calling up the admissions tutor and demanding a place on his course might seem an unusual way of getting into...
These charts and tables give the most comprehensive picture available of Britain's higher education system and its development over almost two decades. Compiling information is fraught with problems...