Edinburgh ponders fate of 'scientific racist'
An Edinburgh University tribunal is expected today to hear the final evidence in its investigation of self-styled "scientific racist" psychology lecturer Chris Brand. The tribunal, which is being...
An Edinburgh University tribunal is expected today to hear the final evidence in its investigation of self-styled "scientific racist" psychology lecturer Chris Brand. The tribunal, which is being...
Plans to merge the universities of Bath and the West of England in Bristol suffered a further setback this week when over half of Bath's senate members rejected the idea. The vote follows doubts...
International players have joined the campaign to save the Royal Greenwich Observatory at Cambridge. Keiichi Kodaira, director general of the National Astronomical Observatory in Japan, said in a...
In an unprecedented partnership with the commercial sector, the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals' statistics agency HESA has signed a collaborative publishing contract with Hobsons...
European education ministers were debating this week how to overcome obstacles to staff and student mobility at the European Union's education council in Luxembourg. Jo Ritzen, minister of education...
SURREY students proved they could swing with the best when they beat opponents from St Andrews, the home of golf, in a national championship. The Surrey University team beat St Andrews University 6-3...
European scientists are meeting this week to start planning a space mission to Mars in 2003 in search of former life. Teams from Italy, France, Germany and Russia are meeting at Leicester University...
Staff and students at Cambridge University's last all-women college, Newnham, are uniting behind fellow Rachel Padman, who was exposed as a transsexual by colleague Germaine Greer. Despite Dr Greer's...
OXFORD University is to hold a postal vote of all 3,000 dons over plans for a new business school. The university's parliament, Congregation, voted overwhelmingly in favour of the Pounds 40 million...
Students may be encouraged to "get the Abbey habit" under funding plans to be put forward by Sir Ron Dearing's inquiry. The Abbey National bank has taken part in consultation workshops held by Sir...
The Scottish committee of the Dearing inquiry into higher education is set to recommend a shift away from the four-year honours degree in favour of Scotland's traditional three-year general degree....
A month ago Stephen Dorrell was cherishing hopes of the Conservative leadership. Today, after his own withdrawal in favour of Kenneth Clarke and then the party's choice of William Hague, he professes...
Shadow warms to role Angela Browning has to cover the whole gamut of education issues as junior spokesman in the Commons, but could still be forgiven for finding her new incarnation pleasantly quiet...
Corporate research and development spending in the United Kingdom is continuing to fall further behind international competitors, according to a report published yesterday. The report's 1997 R and D...
Well over 100 options are expected to flop onto education ministers' desks with Sir Ron Dearing's report next month. Education ministers, on the other hand, are said reliably to have confined...