Up to 18 jobs are under threat at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, where a low score in the research assessment exercise has forced a shake-up in biological sciences, writes Julia Hinde...
(Photograph) - Germ warfare: Battles between bacteria are to be put under the microscope at the University of East Anglia thanks to a Pounds 950,000 grant from the Wellcome Trust. Scientists are to...
The 1996 research assessment exercise may lead to a damaging split between research and teaching in many institutions, says Ian McNay, head of the centre for higher education management at Anglia...
ACADEMICS feel their departments lose out on cash because institutions do not tell them enough about money matters, a funding council chief has warned. Brian Fender, chief executive of the Higher...
Removing the VAT burden on universities and transferring the job of paying student tuition fees from local education authorities to funding councils could generate savings of up to Pounds 60 million...
SITE licence schemes can save universities up to Pounds 30,000 a year on journal subscriptions and bring academic papers to a wider audience, a pilot project has found. Initial results from the UK...
David Blunkett, Secretary of State for Education and Employment, has appealed for people to write to him in normal print, rather than sending tapes or braille. He told his first press conference that...
The University of Ulster has apologised to its chancellor, Rabbi Julia Neuberger, following a public row over mixed-religion schools. It had distanced itself from Rabbi Neuberger after she criticised...
Wolverhampton University students are being targetted by West Midlands Police keen to see the return of more than 100 yellow traffic cones stolen from local streets. The police have launched a month-...
Edinburgh University has adjourned a tribunal on psychology lecturer Chris Brand to an unspecified date after failing to complete the hearing last Friday. Mr Brand has been suspended from teaching...
THE Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals looks set to retain its controversial pay bargaining body with certain modifications. A review group, set up by the CVCP, is set to recommend that the...
SOLICITORS could join trainee barristers at The Inns of Court School of Law, which wants to expand its role. Since losing its monopoly on bar vocational courses last year, the school has been worried...
STUDENTS sharing a home with non- or ex-students claiming council tax benefit will no longer have to stump up a share of the bill. Normally, students are exempt from paying the tax and unable to...
Sammy Adelman, a Warwick University law lecturer, has threatened to withhold teaching from a former military dictator with a poor record in human rights who is expected as a student in September....
In an article last week on the future of physics and chemistry we may have implied that Essex University had cut undergraduate physics and chemistry. In fact, Essex will stop recruiting students to...