The University of Nottingham and the AUT have taken the unusual step of issuing a joint statement over job losses. They have reassured staff that none will face compulsory redundancy over research...
Natfhe's 1997 conference must go down as one of the oddest in living memory - which, given the wealth of collective experience, is a very long time. In what were almost surreal circumstances, the...
Just as Dundee University's two student newspapers are considering a merger, archives assistant Michael Bolik has unearthed a student magazine from 1922 which reveals one contributor violently...
Like Madam Speaker and the staff of Hansard, we are having trouble working out who the new MPs are. A missive from the University of Warwick chides us for omitting it from our list of universities...
In the interests of political and gender balance, the alumnus to be proud of No. 108 is a Tory alumna, best known for her role in the far-from-accidental demise of a would-be prime minister. Michael...
A Professor of comparative literature at Duke University in the United States is the winner of the third Bad Writing Contest, sponsored by the journal Philosophy and Literature and its Internet...
It was a mild spring night and Karen Pelley, Chantal Maynard and I were wearing bright red Walksafe jackets as we patrolled through a square-mile zone on a four-hour Friday shift. One of the two...
Despite the fact that novelist Sue Thomas reads books on her pocket organiser and publishes her work on the Internet she takes issue with colleagues who fear the death of the book. Ms Thomas,...
Canadian's idea leads Newcastle women to take back the night .. with an escort When Sandra Dunkin heard there had been a rape on campus at Newcastle University her thoughts flashed back to her own...
Universities have been invited to apply for awarding-body status for National Vocational Qualifications by Nick Tate, chief executive of the new Qualifications and Curriculum Authority. Higher...
ATHLETES should pay more attention to eating a balanced diet rather than seeking quick-fix performance enhancing solutions, according to the latest nutritional research. Nutritionalists say sports...
MOST professional footballers are not nearly as rich as we think, a national study has found. The popular image of the millionaire football superstar, such as Eric Cantona, hides the reality for many...
(Photograph) - Place in the sun: Peter Attwell, a final-year mature student at Plymouth University's school of electronic, communication and electrical engineering, has developed a mobile dish which...
Sports scientists at Liverpool John Moores University are close to perfecting an innovative computer program that could greatly improve coaching techniques by analysing the performance of footballers...
I WRITE to correct the information on French and German at Aston University in your subject quality league table. French and German were submitted to the research assessment exercise under the...