Brussels, 02 Oct 2003 INTAS, the international association for the promotion of cooperation with scientists from the New Independent States (NIS) of the former Soviet Union, has launched its...
£40k debt puts studying law out of reach of poor Law students are amassing debts of up to £40,000 before they start work, cementing the profession’s reputation as the preserve of the rich, according...
The publication of research that claims psychiatric therapy can turn gay people heterosexual has sparked uproar in academe. Bitter recriminations, attacks on the journal carrying the work and...
Leading universities are making a multimillion-pound investment in academic posts to bolster their research strengths ahead of the next assessments in 2007. Four universities are in the market for...
The challenges to government this week included an unexpected broadside from the royal commission on long-term care of the elderly, which condemned the failure to introduce free personal care across...
* The Centre for Economic Performance has appointed: John Van Reenan , professor of economics at University College London, as its director; and Stephen Machin , professor of economics at the London...
The government is holding urgent talks with universities about student support, amid fears that its top-up fees policy could deter the poorest from higher education. Education secretary Charles...
A clampdown on student debt was advocated by financial consultants this week, while by contrast the higher education minister was urging leniency, writes Alison Goddard. Some £120 million...
Labour students are uneasy over plans for higher education top-up fees, torn between support for their government and fear that higher charges will deter students from poorer backgrounds, writes Alan...
Ministers have been comprehensively "outspun" in the debate on top-up fees, according to a report published this week. The study by the Higher Education Policy Institute examins the tuition fee...
HOW TO GET A GRANT We report on the effects of the government drive to concentrate research and offer pointers for researchers who find themselves in a more restrictive financial environment ALSO...
Northern Ireland's two universities have won £50 million research funding for seven groundbreaking projects through the public-private Support Programme for University Research. Queen's University,...
Warwick University is to charge an application fee for postgraduates to stop time-consuming speculative applications. Applicants will be charged £20 for an online application and £...
Actor Clint Eastwood is to address the Oxford Union. He will be interviewed by film critic Barry Norman when he appears at the debating society on October 9. Other speakers this term will include...
The atmosphere was sombre this week at Durham University's department of East Asian studies. Despite very public protestations from former cabinet ministers, senior diplomats, eminent academics and...