12 June 2003 In the school year 2000-2001, 71% of 18-year-olds living in the European Union were still in the education system 1 . The proportion who remained in education was highest in Sweden (95...
Risk aversion is not something that comes naturally to Glenn Crocker, the newly appointed chief executive of the UK's largest bioscience and healthcare innovation centre. Dr Crocker joined BioCity...
Europe's largest underground physics laboratory, housed in three chambers in the Gran Sasso mountains of central Italy, has been closed by a court order after complaints from environmentalists after...
Academics should take individual action to frustrate the renewal of Israel's membership of the European Union's biggest research programme, the professor at the centre of last summer's boycott row...
Baghdad museum gets back looted vase The vase of Warka, one of the most treasured pieces looted from the Baghdad Museum during the war on Iraq, was returned yesterday. The coalition...
Medical school policy must be reviewed amid evidence that students with religious objections to abortion are being coerced into taking part in terminations, the British Medical Association heard last...
Oxford University is expected to announce its new vice-chancellor in the next two weeks, taking the academic world by surprise as the nominating committee had until September. Interviews are...
Extra funding will be allocated to a group of leading universities over and above the sums awarded to the best research departments, higher education minister Margaret Hodge said this week. At a...
Fears are growing in the medical academic community about possible plans to hand over part of the Department of Health's research budget to the new NHS University, writes Anna Fazackerley. Bob Fryer...
Infidelity How do you measure up? Two views bad Did George Orwell attempt to quash dissent? Blair at 100 Jeffrey Mayers reviews two biographies of George Orwell Focus: Reference books, American...
Almost 50 students could claim compensation totalling about£1 million from Oxford Brookes University after a third intake of students confirmed that they had joined a mass complaint that their degree...
The British Academy has been accused of "old boys' favouritism" after awarding a prestigious £1 million research grant to one of its fellows and withholding a further £1 million that had originally...
The government's flagship student satisfaction survey could be delayed for at least two years after the project steering group raised serious concerns that academics' and universities' reputations...
The man charged with kick-starting the UK's knowledge economy by forcing universities to work more closely with business is set to surprise ministers by opting for a softly-softly approach. Richard...
Lecturers' union Natfhe is playing into the hands of extremist parties by refusing to teach their members, said Patrick Harrington, the former National Front official who won a landmark 1980s High...