A US academic could face the sack after The THES discovered that he had plagiarised almost an entire research paper on the Korean stock market, lifting data figure-for-figure and falsely attributing...
1990-91 * Institute for Public Policy Research meetings involving several centre-left thinkers conclude that tuition fees and student loans are necessary to fund higher education expansion 1992 *...
As Labour marks a record spell in power, Alan Thomson looks at its radical effect on HE After six years and three months, the Blair government will on Saturday enter the record books as the most...
University schools of architecture are to be monitored to ensure they do not discriminate against female staff and students, following a hard-hitting report for the Royal Institute of British...
Scotland's two Russell Group members, Edinburgh and Glasgow universities, are not expected to join any moves for separate policy on pay and fees, writes Olga Wojtas. The THES last week revealed...
Jim Wallace, deputy first minister of the Scottish Parliament and minister for enterprise and lifelong learning, has pledged to maintain research funding for all Scottish institutions. Mr Wallace,...
Lecturers will have to know how to use new technology and apply it creatively in their teaching, according to the Higher Education Funding Council for England's draft e-learning strategy, published...
A baby still in the womb can tell the difference between its mother's voice and that of a stranger, writes Philip Fine. A Canadian-Chinese study may help confirm the theory that the foundation for...
A scientist in the US has unravelled one of evolution's maladaptive mysteries, writes Natasha Gilbert. Philip Stoddard of the department of biological sciences at Florida International University has...
The e-university faces an uphill struggle in convincing British white-collar workers of the need for further study, according to a four-nation survey of 25 to 44-year-olds, writes Pat Leon. Only a...
The proposed merger between Thames Valley University and Reading College could be completed in just three months, officials said this week. But lecturers' union leaders have described such a tight...
The University of Belgrade has taken steps to counter lingering Serb nationalism among a minority of its academics who supported former president Slobodan Milosevic. Revelations of the clampdown came...
Eight years after the Dayton peace agreement ended the war in Bosnia, the first tentative steps towards a unified higher education system are still being taken. Enes Pelidija, president of the...
Russia's federal security service should abandon the spate of espionage cases it has brought against academics and scientists, human rights activists have demanded. The Moscow Helsinki Group, the...
The Roman Catholic Church has enlisted Europe's universities in a drive to ensure the continent's Christian roots are included in the new European constitution. Last month, a massive, pan-European...