(Photograph) - Edinburgh University's professorial husband and wife team, molecular biologist Sir Kenneth Murray and molecular geneticist Noreen Murray, will receive a twin double honour this summer...
Further education in Wales has been described as bouyant after nearly Pounds 150 million was awarded to colleges for an 8 per cent expansion next year. But the squeeze on providers to become more...
Welsh further education colleges are being consulted on whether they want peer evaluation to become a formal part of the quality assessment process, writes David Charter. In practice, the views of...
Durham University is anxiously asking whether anybody's chancellor is improperly dressed. The chancellors were out in force at the Queen's awards for higher education at Buckingham Palace earlier in...
Mind you, the unwary might have concluded that the PSA had taken to including ratings of speakers in lieu of their institutions in the programme list issued for last week's annual conference at York...
"Political Studies Association in political correctness split storm shock". Well not exactly. One or two people, notably Philip Norton, professor of politics at Hull University, did get rather...
The Department for Education's lurch this week on to the information superhighway may yet be hampered by the necessary equipment being in the wrong hands, if the trend seen in a written answer given...
A private Bill to merge St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College with the Royal London Hospital and Queen Mary and Westfield College has moved a stage forward in the Commons despite a stormy Labour...
Ron Johnston, vice chancellor of Essex University, is to step down after three years in the post. Professor Johnston, 54, will leave at the end of this academic year. He said he had decided to return...
The Labour Party is drawing up plans for unifying education for the over-16s, with employers and training providers playing significant roles. David Blunkett, the shadow education secretary, wants...
Where can you buy a Relativity Mouse Mat, a pair of sterling silver earring replicas of Oxford's Radcliffe Camera, and a "bundle" of J. R. R. Tolkien goodies, all at the push of a button? Only in a...
Nowadays, every county council worth its salt wants a university, not least because it is likely to mean an extra Pounds 50 million or so to the local coffers. But there was a time when university...
Proof that bashing Essex University and sociology is not the exclusive preserve of the Cro-Magnon right. During last week's Commons debate on London University medical school mergers, Labour MP Brian...
The tabloids will doubtless be excited to hear that the 50th birthday of Lord Plant, political theorist, Labour peer and chair of the party commission on electoral reform, was marked by the delivery...
Industry put a record Pounds 131 million into the 53 "old" universities for research last year, according to figures from the Universities' Statistical Record. Cambridge and science-based Imperial...