'Research inactive' given last chance
(Photograph) - Academics at Queen's University in Belfast yesterday began their fight against more than 100 redundancies, as their vice-chancellor George Bain (above) revealed his restructuring plan...
(Photograph) - Academics at Queen's University in Belfast yesterday began their fight against more than 100 redundancies, as their vice-chancellor George Bain (above) revealed his restructuring plan...
* Cambridge University was expected to face protesters outside the High Court this week over its spending on legal bills in its battle with lecturer Gill Evans. As The THES went to press, the...
National guidance against the routine administration of meningococcal C vaccinations is putting students at risk, it was claimed this week. Health officials are having to make special arrangements to...
From next year Fulbright scholars will receive roughly double the amount of money they do at present. Changes to the US-UK Fulbright Program have been brought about without an increase in funding....
In the past week, the Human Genetics Advisory Commission has had its first meeting with Tessa Jowell, the minister for public health, to discuss the commission's work. HGAC chairman Sir Colin...
Student unions in Northern Ireland have launched a campaign to stamp out sectarianism on campus. Maurice Dickson, convenor of the National Union of Students-Union of Students in Ireland, said: "We...
Ten finance and law lecturers and at least two language lecturers in the business school at Bournemouth University face redundancy after their departments ran up deficits. University and college...
Tameside College in Manchester has launched a ten-week course on soap operas. Society Through the Soaps will look at how characters are portrayed in TV series such as EastEnders and Coronation Street...
Shares in biotechnology company Chiroscience soared this week as it announced it has discovered the gene that controls the human autoimmune system. The discovery could help with development of...
Natasha Loder reports on the NUS campaign for Wednesday afternoons Traditional Wednesday afternoon sports at universities are under threat despite growing demand for more professional facilities from...
Last week in The THES James Mahoney argued that money should be provided to save chimps used in scientific experiments from euthanasia and to pay for retirement homes Pam Kershaw These unfortunate...
Edgar Jenkins, of Leeds University, will consider whether GCSE double award science is an adequate preparation for A-level science in a lecture at the university's centre for studies in science and...
Undergraduates still suffer from "terrible standards of spelling", the latest survey by the Queen's English Society has found. The list of howlers from science undergraduates includes "ejucation" for...
The reputation of British higher education continues to be damaged by universities with overseas collaborative arrangements, says an analysis of overseas quality audits by the former universities'...
Striking differences in the student profiles of Britain's higher education institutions emerge in figures just released. Variations in numbers of overseas, part-time, mature, disabled and ethnic...