Social scientists are planning to create their own academy to stand alongside the Royal Society, the British Academy and the Royal Academy of Engineering. The council of the Association of Learned...
The Liberal Democrats last week welcomed Lord Smith of Clifton of Mountsandel in the County of Londonderry to the Lords. It was a fair choice of title for the vice chancellor of the University of...
Still awaiting the call is David Triesman, general secretary of the Association of University Teachers. But perhaps not for long. At a recent AUT presidential reception Mr Triesman treated the...
Would-be looters of our heritage will find slim pickings in higher education funding, to judge by the National Asset Register published this week by the Treasury. The Higher Education Funding Council...
The latest change in the working habits of John Randall, the very mobile chief executive of the Quality Assurance Agency, may interest his desk-bound colleagues in London. Having given some QAA...
Good telephone manners at a large provincial university that must remain nameless to protect the guilty. An innocent telephone call from The THES to an academic asking after some of his excellent...
Alumnus to be proud of No 149 achieved the worst Conservative result of the year - possibly a greater achievement in 1997 than any other year this century. Gerald Malone, twice loser of Winchester,...
MAJOR recruiters will offer only a few of the total graduate job openings in future, according to a study by the Institute for Employment Studies. But, says the Sussex University-based research...
Swansea Institute of Higher Education is to abandon the battle for survival as an independent institution and seek a link-up with the University of Wales, Swansea or the University of Glamorgan. A...
(Photograph) - Glasgow University scientists have developed a three-dimensional camera that could help catch criminals. The 3D-Matic system allows 3-D models to be built from 2-D images, enabling...
A ROW over "academic snobbery" has erupted in Cambridge, following an 11th-hour decision by the university's board of continuing education to pull out of a collaborative pact with Anglia Polytechnic...
Security in Britain's university laboratories is now so tight that the theft of dangerous chemicals as allegedly occurred in the 1980s by Iraqi students would be almost impossible, it is claimed....
Bath University has joined forces with the University for Swindon and Wiltshire Project, set up by the Wiltshire Training and Enterprise Council, local authorities and businesses, to fill a gap in...
A BRITISH medical school is presenting plans for the first fast-track degree for would-be doctors to the General Medical Council this week. London's St George's Hospital Medical School hopes to admit...
European ministers were yesterday expected to back the controversial European biotechnology patent directive. The directive, rewritten to take in amendments from the European parliament in July, was...