The Welsh Office this week announced plans to create more than 10,000 university places, primarily for people from working-class backgrounds, in Wales over the next five years. The drive to combat...
Nearly two-thirds of students are expected to take on part-time work this term. Harriet Swain reports Only a few years ago, many universities would throw students out if they caught them taking paid...
Astronomers at Queen's University, Belfast, are redefining the position of the edge of the solar system using a new camera on the Isaac Newton telescope in the Canary Islands. "There has been an...
"Make sure that your files do not contain anything you would be unhappy or embarrassed to have to show to the individual to whom it relates," a Cambridge University memo advises, which shows that...
John Sloboda, professor of psychology and founder and director of Keele University's unit for the study of musical skill, has received this year's British Psychological Society Presidents' Award for...
A keynote of optimism Further education's fortunes appear to be looking up again. Education secretary David Blunkett is to give a keynote address at the annual conference of the Association of...
What day is it? Grey-bearded, pony-tailed taxi-driver bringing me from Austin airport has trouble with address. "Don't go to that quarter much. Short trips, no tips." Left alone in the street with my...
Philip Tasker, 48, pro-vice-chancellor at De Montfort University and a fellow of the Institute of Physics and Royal Society of Chemistry, will be De Montfort's next vice-chancellor and chief...
David Sainsbury, made a minister in the Department of Trade and Industry by prime minister Tony Blair in April, created life peer Lord Sainsbury of Turville last year, and now chairman of the...
Salzburg University music school, the Mozarteum, has been ordered to close. Science and research minister Caspar Einem announced the closure following a report revealing that cancer-inducing...
Twenty-eight foreign-language lecturers sacked 13 months ago by the University of Bologna for refusing to sign a new contract downgrading their status to that of technicians have began work again...
Australia's newly re-elected prime minister John Howard has reappointed right-wing former political science professor David Kemp to head a truncated Department of Education, Training and Youth...
The Chinese government has approved strategy and funding for the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the country's top scientific research body, to become the national natural science and high-tech...
South African astronomers are over the moon about the government's approval of funding for a powerful new telescope, said Bob Stobie, director of the South African Astronomical Observatory. The...
Quebec, the Canadian province that has already held unsuccessful referendums on secession in 1980 and 1995, recently announced it would hold a third vote but only under "winning conditions". While...