MP Kerry Pollard had opposed top-up fees. Now he is convinced they are necessary. He explains what changed his mind When top-up fees for universities were first suggested, I vigorously opposed them....
Nanoscience is just a new term for vast swaths of modern science, and whatever threat is posed today is in no way novel. Oh no, here we go again. The self-appointed saviours of the world, who scan...
Monday Meet scientists, artists and film-makers who will share this trip to highlight the effects of ocean currents on us and our climate. We will sail on a 100-year-old schooner around Spitsbergen,...
The Reverend Ian Paisley's firebrand Democratic Unionist Party lost no time in denouncing a £300 bursary at Queen's University, Belfast, in the name of murdered nationalist solicitor Pat Finucane as...
And another legal success story: Eddie "the eagle" Edwards, formerly Britain's first and only Olympic ski jumper, has graduated in law from De Montfort University. Famous for coming last with some...
Alistair Boxall, a pollution researcher at Cranfield University, has strong ideas about academic leadership. Faced with an experiment in which chemicals were to be added to 70,000 litres of pig...
Education secretary Charles Clarke was technologically challenged at the launch of the government's e-learning strategy consultation document at Birkbeck College, London, last week. Lights and sound...
Catherine Belsey, Professor of English at Cardiff University and chair of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory. She will give a plenary lecture at the "English - The Condition of the Subject"...
Britain needs to roll four research councils into one national body, says David Giachardi Albert Einstein said: "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler." If Einstein...
Mark McGowan intends to pay his student loan in kind by rolling a peanut across London On September 1, I will start pushing a monkey nut seven miles across London. With my nose. I have just finished...
The push to unlock the therapeutic potential of human stem cells has been boosted by an international effort to coordinate research. Twelve top scientific nations, including the UK and US, have...
Universities should be freed from central government management, according to the man charged with seeking industry's views on the running of higher education institutions. Richard Lambert told The...
A government move to charge up to £250 to extend UK student visas has angered overseas student representatives. The UK Council for Overseas Student Affairs, which held its annual conference this week...
University endowments have fallen in value by 20 per cent in two years, hitting prestigious universities and partly offsetting increased government investment. The first national audit of university...
US universities face still deeper budget cuts after endowment values dropped for a third straight year, compounding an existing crisis caused by a decline in government funding and private donations...