Some of Britain's most important medical research projects are threatened by a staff careers crisis, the Association of University Teachers claimed at its summer council in Eastbourne this week. AUT...
Higher education is set to gain millions of pounds more in the Treasury's comprehensive spending review settlement in July, but the money will be tightly linked to improving equal opportunities,...
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council is being urged to take forward the battle against short-term contracts as part of an equal opportunities drive. The AUT Scotland has praised the Higher...
Modern languages teaching methods in schools are leaving new undergraduates ill-prepared for degree-level study, a conference heard this week. University language departments are finding that too...
The United Kingdom might collaborate in a third-generation synchrotron to be sited in France, alongside the French participating in the British-based Diamond project. French research minister Roger-...
Oxford University could become like any other civic university, distinguished only by its expensive listed buildings and with college wardens as "academic concierges", a new book argues. David...
Derby University management and lecturers' union leaders were on a collision course this week as vice-chancellor Roger Waterhouse launched an attack on officials threatening industrial action. In an...
Teaching, page 37 Industry must take the blame for the UK's relatively poor record of innovation in engineering and physical sciences over many decades, the government believes. A recent House of...
Pounds 7.5m site aims to widen access in deprived area Sandwiched between two supermarkets a couple of miles outside the run-down Kent towns of Margate, Broadstairs and Ramsgate, the new campus of...
A Dundee University researcher investigating the impact on health of the United Kingdom's nuclear weapons tests on Christmas Island has won a funding boost from the New Zealand government. The...
The University of Hull has lost control of postgraduate degrees awarded in its name in South Africa, quality inspectors have found. The university has admitted that its deal to provide MBAs in...
Call centres are proving popular in the student job market, thanks to flexible hours and good pay, according to university careers officers. The industry has proved a boon not only for students but...
Queen Margaret University College in Edinburgh this week celebrates its 125th anniversary. It arguably started life as a research-driven institution: its founders were inspired by studies on the link...
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novelist who has just bowed out of life's dance: "Duck, flying in from the south, ignored four or...
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