Profits of industry funding
So the same tired old arguments are being raised about the industrial funding of research into novel pharmaceuticals at universities as were common when, working for what was Department of Trade and...
So the same tired old arguments are being raised about the industrial funding of research into novel pharmaceuticals at universities as were common when, working for what was Department of Trade and...
In his recent review of the fifth volume of The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield (Books, 15 January), Jeffrey Meyers deplores what he calls "the atrocious editing of this volume". Isn't this...
Jeffrey Meyers' review limits itself to glib biographical generalisation, dismissal of the worth of the edition on the basis of occasional errors and omissions and a final dismissal of Katherine...
While we all appreciate that Times Higher Education has a well-known blind spot where academic medicine is concerned, it is pushing even that envelope to say that Wendy Hall was the only female...
Roger Brown misjudges the approach of the law and the courts to academic judgment by stating that "in a few years' time, any student who does not get an upper-second degree may take their university...
PhD student Peter Bennett has attracted more than a million YouTube viewers to footage of a musical instrument he has invented. His creation, BeatBearing, uses ball bearings to create different drum...
Authors Will Self and Ian McEwan, historian Simon Schama and broadcaster Joan Bakewell are among those taking part in this year's Spring Literary Festival at the University of East Anglia. Acclaimed...
Children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder have (ADHD) serious problems with short-term memory, which may explain their poor attention, according to research by academics from the...
A new £8 million business and law building has been opened at Edge Hill University. The addition to the Ormskirk campus, described by the university as "cutting edge", will house several departments...
The efforts of a University of Salford scientist to prevent the spread of a killer disease have been honoured by the Chinese Government. The work of Phil Craig, from Salford's School of Environment...
The University and College Union has criticised the University of Plymouth for putting £2.5 million towards a city sports centre at the same time as it is consulting on cutting more than 220 jobs....
A £1 million history project at the University of Essex is to create a research resource that it hopes will transform understanding of the period between 1851 and 1911. The project will pool more...
A university founded just 18 months ago has received two marks of recognition for the way it is run. The University of Cumbria was granted the Investors in People award as well as accreditation for...
Work is to begin soon on a new £13 million sport and health sciences building for the University of Teesside after council planners gave the scheme their unanimous backing. The four-storey building,...
A dispute between Nottingham Trent University and the University and College Union is close to being resolved, union leaders have said. The UCU took industrial action after the university introduced...