Grant Winners
EUROPEAN RESEARCH COUNCILThe European Research Council has announced the winners of its Advanced Grants in life sciences. The awards are worth up to EUR2.5 million (£1.95 million), but they can rise...
EUROPEAN RESEARCH COUNCILThe European Research Council has announced the winners of its Advanced Grants in life sciences. The awards are worth up to EUR2.5 million (£1.95 million), but they can rise...
United StatesPeru to sue Yale over artefactsThe Government of Peru has indicated that it will sue Yale University in an attempt to recover thousands of Inca relics excavated by a US explorer almost a...
Countries around the world are looking to a European shake-up of higher education as a model for reform of their own systems, a conference was told. Michael Gaebel of the European University...
Former Brunel chief brings 'education for life' to Australia's Macquarie University. John Gill reports
ChinaShuffled staff threaten progressThe development of China's higher education system is being hampered by a government-driven rotation of a small number of people around the sector's top jobs, a...
A new pro vice-chancellor has been appointed at Nottingham Trent University. Ann Priest will be responsible for non-course-related student matters at the university, alongside her role as head of the...
Perceptions that the UK is 'aloof' from the Bologna Process are grossly unfair - but they could prove damaging
The dust jacket of this book proclaims that "the price of oil has doubled in less than two years. And it is still rising". Not now it isn't.In early 2008, US investment bank Goldman Sachs, at that...
The London School of Economics has recruited Niall Ferguson to a chair in international history. Professor Ferguson, an academic historian, journalist and television presenter, holds positions at...
ACTION MEDICAL RESEARCHAward winner: L. IslamInstitution: Institute of Child Health, University College LondonValue: £138,300Blindness in childrenAward winner: S. KhanjaniInstitution: Imperial...
The Economic and Social Research Council and The British Academy are joining forces to fund visiting fellows from South Asia and the Middle East. Twelve of the 19 fellowships have gone to academics...
Public-private collaboration to offer pre-university courses to overseas students. Olga Wojtas reports
In the 25 years since the iconic film adaptation of George Orwell's dystopia, US society has crept ever closer to its bleak vision of paranoia, surveillance, perpetual war and unthinkingness, fears...
GEOGRAPHY- The Columbia Gazetteer of the WorldEdited by Saul Cohen, specialist in political geography and university professor emeritus at Hunter College of the City University of New York. Columbia...
Vice-chancellor outlines ambitious growth plan building on career- oriented curricula. Melanie Newman reports. Surrey University launched an institute in China this week as the first of a series of...