The first large-scale national survey of how the Holocaust is taught in English secondary schools has been launched by Stuart Foster, reader in history in education and director of the project at the...
A new £2.7 million cancer research centre is to be set up at the University of Leeds. The Pre-Cancer Genomics Centre, which is funded by the charity Yorkshire Cancer Research, will help to seek out...
A symposium to celebrate businesses working with universities in the South West was held last week in Bristol. The day showcased the practical ways in which businesses have benefited from harnessing...
Members' benefits may be cut because of the current credit crunch. Rebecca Attwood reports
The Brayford Campus at the University of Lincoln was built on derelict railway sidings and opened by the Queen in 1996. It was the first new city-centre university campus in the UK for 25 years. When...
Concern as new '.edu' website lists non-existent individuals and departments. Zoe Corbyn reports
The student grants system will have withered away by the year 2007, according to figures published this week by the National Union of Students (NUS). The prediction follows last week's government...
Research and developmentMind the funding gapA lack of investment in research and development has left the UK's higher education sector lagging behind those of the US and other competitors, according...
Frank Furedi on the assumptions, agendas and distinctly iffy data behind those ubiquitous words, 'research shows'
Through its failure to reward academics for their social responsibility, the RAE is encouraging moral bankruptcy, argues Stefano Harney
After a Gok Wan-inspired 'domestic', Gary Day muses on religion, eternal life and the ugliness of bigotry
In May we reported that the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service had issued for consultation a new Code of Practice on Discipline and Grievance. Acas has now issued what it hopes will be...
One happy childhood memory that I cherish is riding in a clunky old white Volvo with my much bigger big brother. I was eight. He was 23 and completing his sixth and final year of a medical degree. As...
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