A bidding war among universities seeking to host one of more than 70 Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning will begin in the new year amid claims that the policy is dangerously divisive....
Scottish higher education needs up to £350 million more if it is to remain one of the major hopes for Scotland's economic regeneration, according to principals. Universities Scotland's draft...
As the nation prepares to stuff itself with monster portions of turkey next week, palaeontologists will set about proving an intriguing proposition - that the turkey is really a dinosaur. Members of...
Students at Leeds University are being offered the chance to ponder the meaning of life under the institution's plans to offer spirituality modules across its entire undergraduate curriculum. The...
The secretive world of the alchemist has been revealed by the first scientific analysis of a 16th-century laboratory. Dozens of pieces of equipment used in the quest for the philosopher's stone are...
Universities should publish academics' research papers freely on their websites, MPs have been told. The Commons science and technology committee, which last week announced an inquiry into scientific...
Human females may be accused of rabbiting together, but Edinburgh University research has found that female bunnies will push open cat flaps to socialise with other females. Shirley Seaman of the...
Government proposals to offer some institutions "time-limited" degree-awarding powers may be illegal and could spark litigation from students, higher education college heads have warned. The...
The National Health Service's planned university aims to enrol 250,000 students over the next four years, playing a vital role in improving healthcare skills in the UK, its long-awaited strategy...
Brunel University has created 20 professorial posts and approved a change of academic structure in an attempt to boost its research performance. The move, agreed by Brunel's governing council,...
Rob Sneyd is professor of anaesthesia at the Peninsula Medical School at Plymouth, and The THES asked him to keep a diary to give some idea of how medical academics seek to balance the three aspects...
Universities are creaming off up to half of the public funding they receive under deals to allow their courses to be delivered by further education colleges. In a report that raises serious questions...
Medical schools' obsession with research could undermine a new contract for clinical academics, the British Medical Association warned this week. Medical academics have until January 9 to vote on a...
Will Labour MPs really let the higher education bill fail? The THES reports Peter Bradley, Labour MP for Wrekin and private parliamentary secretary to Alun Michael, minister of state for rural...
Media studies Phil Baty reports on the fight to defend the image of a tarnished subject. It is "sub-Marxist gobbledegook" taught by "talentless individuals", according to rightwing historian Roger...