Winning the Kohn Award is testament to Kathy Sykes's ongoing interest in talking to the public about science Just over a decade ago, Kathy Sykes felt she had to abandon an academic career as a...
* Kingston University has appointed Donald Beaton , former human resources director at Warwick University, as university secretary and secretary to the governing body. * Chung Qing Li , senior...
Between 2003-04 and 2010-11 the income of English universities will increase by 39 per cent from £13.9 billion to £19.1 billion The revenue of Russell Group universities will increase by 39 per cent...
Tony Blair has personally intervened in the battle to rid campuses of Muslim extremists, with universities invited to a meeting with Muslim community leaders at 10 Downing Street, writes Claire...
A Campus Conspiracy' s publisher makes explicit that St Sebastian University does not exist. Any resemblance of characters (including the busty daughter of the bra manufacturer) to real people is...
The blurb on the novel's back cover promises great intrigue: a prominent academic caught in a conspiracy involving sexual harassment, blackmail and fraud, who "uncovers the dark side of the modern...
Hello, world Summer's over, the students are coming back. Time to leave the country? We ask academics who have about the pros and cons
British universities have retained their places in the 2006 ranking of world universities by Shanghai Jiao Tong University's Institute of Higher Education. The institute's fourth annual ranking again...
Research affecting public health and the environment is at risk because of cuts facing laboratories funded by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, unions have warned. Prospect, the...
An increasing number of students are being forced to seek paid employment during term time and vacations, according to a report published by the National Union of Students and the Trades Union...
International students are happier with life and learning in Scotland than elsewhere in the UK, according to an independent report commissioned by the British Council and Scottish Executive. It found...
Quentin Skinner, regius professor of modern history at Cambridge University, has been awarded one of the four Balzan Prizes for 2006. The prize was awarded in the category "humanities, moral sciences...
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Wolfson Microelectronics and the Royal Society of Edinburgh have created an annual $20,000 (Pounds 10,600) international award for a scientist...
Harper Adams University College was omitted from our table of results in the National Student Survey (News, August 25). It achieved an overall satisfaction score of 4.2, placing it fifth in the...
Cara Aitchison is professor of human geography at the University of the West of England, Bristol, specialising in gender and tourism. She is a member of sub-panel 46 of the 2008 research assessment...