Twice-yearly start dates for university courses are growing in popularity amid fears of falling applications and disappointing enrolments. Several universities have introduced courses that run twice...
A prince enrolled at Oxford University has had to abandon his studies to fight for his country. Jigyel Ugyen Wangchuck, the prince of Bhutan, left St Peter's College this week. He had been at Oxford...
The prime minister was expected to respond this week to a letter from 114 UK scientists complaining about the increasing hostility to, and lack of government support for, work on genetic modification...
Obession with assessment is crushing creativity in schoolchildren, laments Ros King Do your first-year students complain that the course you teach is too difficult? Have you noticed that they are...
If the key to learning a language is to start very young, isn't there an obvious solution to the current languages crisis? Education, education, education! Tony Blair said it three times to underline...
The ballot on whether lecturers' union Natfhe should continue pay talks or go straight to a vote on industrial action was running neck and neck as The THES went to press. Postal strikes meant that...
Welcome Sir Graeme Davies, the former principal of the University of Glasgow, who last month became vice-chancellor of the University of London. Vice-chancellors gathered in the capital last week...
A flip-friendly beer mat has been developed by two university researchers. Ian Johnston, an aerodynamics expert at the Open University in Edinburgh, and Hazel Lucas, who is doing a masters degree at...
Chemistry week kicks off tomorrow, on the theme of pleasure. The Royal Society of Chemistry - noted for its more outlandish attempts at generating publicity - has printed T-shirts emblazoned with "...
In the wake of Hallowe'en, Dundee University students have discovered the cost of burning a witch. The students, investigating the role of women in the 16th and 17th centuries, found a ledger...
Monday The box with the final version of "the rover" has just arrived from the UK. The modifications performed should overcome the drawbacks of the last trials. Over the past four years, many...
A government minister who came to talk to local union activists at Leeds University declared that the problems of university staff were not high on the government's agenda because they were not...
No researcher should be betrayed in the way Exeter betrayed me, insists Russel Ogden I interviewed more than 100 people in four countries during my PhD studies at Exeter University from 1995-98....
Scholarships engender a sense of pride in the institutions that create them, argues Terry Butland Scholarships have played an important role in British higher education for a long time. They...
Customising articles for specific publications improves your chances of making it into print, writes Nick Saunders. When it comes to publishing, academics inhabit a world unrecognisable to the public...