According to a report by the University of Salford, people in the United Kingdom spend a staggering Pounds 110 million every day on gambling. It is fascinating, but also worrying, that once let off...
After years of being ignored by government, social science is respected again. But for how long? asks Ian Forbes The social sciences are regularly accused either of having nothing to offer society...
Philip Fine reports on an Ottawa union conference on commercialisation A formidable global body could soon have the authority to dictate free enterprise policies to universities, economist Marjorie...
Internet novices and student web developers can measure their visual skills at a new online "design IQ" centre. The test assesses visual and design acumen with 25 questions designed to be fun as well...
Some of Australia's leading universities are being investigated for possible waste of resources arising from academics undertaking outside paid work, writes Julia Hinde. The Audit Office of New South...
It's not my party Alan Johns, president of university and college lecturers' union Natfhe, was all charm at a recent Natfhe parliamentary reception when he particularly singled out the Liberal...
The plight of boxer Michael Watson has highlighted the need for professional sports to monitor injury frequency and treatment. Euro 2000 qualifier: the predicted outcome is Scotland 5 - England 4. It...
Oxford colleges have created a fund to finance home-grown innovations. Kam Patel reports A good sign: research at Opsys Oxford University last week made a concerted effort to boost its links with...
Natfhe has agreed to accept the employers' revised pay offer, which involves setting up working groups on sex discrimination and casualisation with an agreed timetable for action.
Thursday An orderly week ahead. Drive to Cambridge to examine a doctorate and then scout tour-sites for next week's "Robin Hood" conference in Nottingham. Friday Disorder looms. According to...
The government was this week accused of suppressing a survey it commissioned that threatened to wreck its plans to scrap student maintenance grants and introduce undergraduate tuition fees. Liberal...
The Wellcome Trust's board of governors met on Wednesday to discuss the siting of the United Kingdom's Pounds 200 million X-ray source for biomedical and physical sciences research. The trust, which...
Chemical companies are "acutely concerned" about the government's under-investment in university infrastructure support, according to a survey of 67 top firms by the Chemical Industries Association....
The Centre for Cross Border Studies opened in Armagh this week as a joint initiative between Queen's University, Belfast, Dublin City University and the Workers Educational Association. The European...
Agricultural students are learning about farmland wildlife as a result of a partnership between the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and the land-based colleges' national consortium. The two...