Critics of the Oxbridge system have "hijacked" and misinterpreted the controversy over the ousting of Sir Stephen Tumim as head of Oxford's St Edmund Hall to pursue a separate reforming agenda, angry...
Two working academics are included in the list of new peers announced this month. The Lords' gain is Sussex University's loss. Margaret Sharp, who has worked at the university's Science Policy...
British Society for Parasitology The C. A. Wright Medal was presented to Richard Maizels, institute of cell, animal and population biology at the University of Edinburgh. The Saltire Society Bernard...
The Royal Society On May 14, the following were elected fellows: Colin Atkinson, professor of applied mathematics, Imperial College, London. David Barker, director of the Medical Research Council...
The old jokes are the best, so here comes the first sentence of a Royal Society press release. "Cannabis may be clinically effective in some medical conditions, according to a joint submission by the...
David Triesman, general secretary of the AUT, this week attacked any fee differentiation for students attending Scottish universities. But in the light of Scotland's exit from the World Cup, still...
Occasionally mentioned as a reshuffle candidate, Tessa Blackstone has been showing unexpected credentials for the post of Minister for Sport. Cornered by reporters after addressing a further...
In the wake of sports minister Tony Banks's comments that the Scots football fans are behaving with grace and charm in order to show up their English counterparts, another embarrassment for the...
There was an unexpected addition to Glasgow University's honorary graduates last week: Frederick Barclay, one of the ultra-reclusive Barclay twins, the millionaire owners of a wide range of...
Hitches of getting hitched. To merge or not to merge, that is the question. THES reporters ponder the pitfalls Speculation continues of possible further mergers of further and higher education...
In a money-saving move, the UK research councils will next month relinquish almost their last London abode, a prime-location office block in Covent Garden, for a cosy sharing agreement with the...
Dome minister Peter Mandelson has reason to look worried. Rumours are flooding the architectural world that most or all of the "zones" planned for his Pleasure Dome are over budget. Could stress...
Alumnus to be proud of no 178 is, in the usage of the Upper House, the noble and learned Lord Neill, former vice-chancellor of Oxford University and chairman of the committee on standards in public...
University vice-chancellors are being urged to write to ministers to stress the importance of maintaining the dual support system for funding university research. Martin Harris, chairman of the...
National minimum grants for further education students to meet the costs of fees, travel and childcare have been called for in a government-commissioned report. The "entitlements" should apply to all...