Senior academics at Leeds University have voted in favour of national bargaining, undermining threats by the elite Russell Group, of which Leeds is a member, to set its own pay. The university's...
CRUNCH TIME Unions and employers lock horns in the final meeting on pay ALSO Madeleine Albright talks about her academic and political past in international relations and gives her views on America's...
Bristol University was fighting an outbreak of bacterial meningitis this week after three first years and a second year contracted the disease. All four were admitted to hospital and in a stable...
Sussex University has received a £1.5 million windfall after the Court of Appeal ruled in its favour over a tax case dating back to 1973. Sussex had submitted a claim to recover VAT on overheads...
In last week's THES ("Contract sparks row over IP rights", page 8) we said that Richard Lambert was carrying out a review of Cambridge business links for the Treasury. In fact, his remit is to review...
Thames Valley University is to merge with Reading College to create the UK's most advanced hybrid further and higher education institution. The merged institution, which bills itself as a "vocational...
Academics are demanding changes to draft legislation that could remove them from the ethics committees that decide which medical experiments are carried out in the UK. All National Health Service...
Amartya Sen, master of Trinity College, Cambridge, and a Nobel laureate in economics, this week denounced the Samuel Huntingdon classification of the world into largely religiously defined...
A tracer study of the prestigious Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship plan has found that the overwhelming majority of award holders, 85-90 per cent, return to their home countries as the scheme...
The Commonwealth this week cleared the path for the creation of a centre of excellence for teacher education at Cambridge University. The plan was endorsed at the three-yearly meeting of Commonwealth...
One of the leaders of last year's academic boycott of Israel attacked Oxford University this week for meting out a "wholly disproportionate punishment" to a professor who rejected a student who had...
Over £260m of public and private cash is going into two campus revamps. The THES reports MIDDLESEX Middlesex University will close its smaller campuses and focus on three sites as part of a £100...
Quality watchdogs have been accused of unfairly maligning foundation degrees in a "prejudicial and premature" report that criticises the quality of the government's new flagship qualification. As The...
UK companies still lag behind their international competitors in research and development spending, according to the latest figures from the Department of Trade and Industry. And there are signs that...
Giant belches from the deep could have claimed the lives of many unfortunate mariners. Scientists have found that a single bubble of methane erupting from the sea-bed could swallow a ship and send it...