Health charities will suffer if coalition stops giving generously
Medical research charities want funding protected in spending review

Medical research charities want funding protected in spending review

Hefce reveals 215 assessors chosen from outside academy

UCU criticises ‘gun to head’ of 2,800 non-academic staff

Knowledge-transfer experts map path to market for university inventions

Funding and donationsArchive of pain nets £1m grantThe world’s oldest archive devoted to the Holocaust and the Nazi era has secured a £1 million grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund to safeguard its...

Source: GettyRemember themEducation experts will lead a project to send two pupils and a teacher from every state secondary school to the battlefields of the First World War. Working with the...

AustraliaTesting times for TeqsaAustralia’s new higher education regulator faces a test of its powers after it emerged that two private institutions have challenged some of its decisions. Stott’s...

These images represent highlights from a collection of almost 200 rare books, incunabula and manuscripts donated by the businessman Henry Davis (1897-1977) to the University of Ulster

Madeleine Blaess’ journal gets screen treatment

The first step in tackling plagiarism in Japan is making students understand what it is, as it is a Western concept that does not fit well within Asian culture. To describe it, the Japanese word...

Great medical record captures public heart and state wallet

Leverhulme TrustResearch Project GrantsSciencesAward winner: Karen PolizziInstitution: Imperial College LondonValue: £108,160How does yeast Golgi organisation contribute to protein glycosylation?...

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Aston UniversitySimon GreenThe new executive dean of Aston University’s School of Languages and Social Sciences, Simon Green, said that it was a “huge privilege” to take on the role, while noting the...

A distinguished civil servant who went on to become the second master of St Catherine’s College, Oxford and the second chancellor of the University of Essex has died