According to Zhou Zhaofeng, a Chinese student doing a law PhD at Glasgow University, UK institutions do little to overcome cultural barriers. Mr Zhou, who also studied at Bristol and Manchester...
London Metropolitan University has broken race relations laws by failing to monitor properly the impact of a performance-related pay scheme on its ethnic minority staff, the Commission for Racial...
Coca-Cola is battling to head off the threat of losing its £7 million a year contract to supply its drinks to students at 200 universities and colleges in the UK. The National Union of Students will...
Admissions tutors' report cards for today's undergraduates might well read: "Marks are slipping, must do better." That, at least, is the conclusion of the 250 university admissions staff quizzed as...
Average graduate starting salaries are rising quicker than the pay of full-time academics, figures out this week reveal. The going rate for a newly recruited graduate rose to nearly £22,500 on...
Universities will no longer need to involve the Privy Council on all matters of governance, the Government confirmed this week. The Department for Education and Skills said institutions would no...
MPs on the House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee have said they will no longer scrutinise research councils on an individual basis, but via cross-cutting themes. Knowledge transfer...
Hull College this week launched an initiative to help 15 to 18-year-olds find out about degree courses in the creative arts. The Creative Partners 4 Progression scheme is supported by two government-...
The Government is showing signs of ADHD, flitting from one policy to the next, says Richard Sennett. Mandy Garner asks him why society has become hooked on short-term gain Just after Richard Sennett...
We have become accustomed to others' suffering in the War on Terror, says Joanna Bourke Ameen Sa'eed Al-Sheikh was arrested on October 7 2003 and taken to the Baghdad Correctional Facility in Abu...
Economist and Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz is heading Manchester's new poverty institute - on a salary that has raised eyebrows, says Michael North Unlike his fellow academics on the podium, Nobel...
Taking a cue from its location at the heart of one of the UK's most deprived housing estates, Roehampton University is making social justice a core element in its approach to learning. Mandy Garner...
Its creator has lived to be 100 taking it, Aldous Huxley took it on his deathbed and the CIA considered using it as a weapon of torture. Susan Blackmore on the psychedelic possibilities of LSD Albert...
Brussels, 8 February 2006 Q: What power does the European Commission have to regulate tissues and cells? The Amsterdam Treaty (Article 152) gave the EU the mandate to pass laws on the quality and...
Brussels, 08 Feb 2006 Researchers from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and the University of Hull have found an unlikely new carbon 'sink' in the Southern Ocean. Antarctic krill, the tiny shrimp-...