The planned expansion of medical school intakes will start from next September, it was confirmed this week. Existing medical schools will be sent offers of proposed admission targets for 1999 intakes...
Universities are waking up to the fact that their position as primary providers of post-secondary knowledge is under attack. Alison Goddard reports on challenges that lie ahead Seven years ago Sir...
There is a new Moon on Tuesday, so the sky should be at its darkest. That will be perfect for viewing one of the most dazzling phenomena the heavens can offer - if it turns up. At about 10pm that...
Mums-to-be wanting to quit smoking need to persuade their partners to give up also if they are to overcome addiction, research suggests. Researchers at the University of Wales, Bangor and Liverpool...
Liutenitsa, a traditional Bulgarian tomato spread, could soon be on the menu in England as researchers at Bournemouth University introduce East European academics and business people to the concepts...
'Lecturer Rob Slack was disciplined after repeated complaints that a colleague had made an "unethical" recommendation of two of his own texts to students' Was Rob Slack sacked by the University of...
The career of National Union of Students president Andrew Pakes suggests that young people have a more relaxed attitude to sexuality than their elders. Now 26 and an active campaigner for lesbian,...
Mo Mowlam, secretary of state for Northern Ireland, is to receive an honorary degree of letters from Coventry University. Baroness Chalker, former minister for overseas development, has been awarded...
Malcolm Wicks MP (Labour, Croydon North), 51, former social policy lecturer at Brunel University and fellow of York University from 1968 to 1970, has been appointed chairman of the Commons education...
A pilot programme for individual learning accounts in Yorkshire and Humberside is to be evaluated at Leeds Metropolitan University. The pilot is one of 12 backed by the Department for Education and...
The National Centre for Work Experience has published a booklet for students explaining what kind of skills employers want them to have learnt from work experience. They include the ability to lead...
Fred Wu. Senior lecturer in medicine at the University of Manchester, who is leading a research programme aimed at developing a mass-market male contraceptive Apart from condoms and vasectomy, there...
The popularity of disciplines waxes and wanes. Which will still be taught in 2050, asks Adrian Furnham Which academic disciplines will have ceased to exist 50 years from now? And what new departments...
A special operation mounted by the Copyright Licensing Agency has uncovered large-scale illegal photocopying of books by students in central London. Lawyers acting for the CLA have told a Bloomsbury...
Ministers are to press universities to teach basic employability skills as an "explicit" part of the curriculum. The recommendation will be made in a report out next week. Institutions that fail to...