Education secretary Charles Clarke and trade and industry secretary Patricia Hewitt came under fire from MPs this week over the government's research and science policy. Appearing before the Commons...
Access regulator The government's plans The road ahead Lord Desai suggests ways to reform the UN Free and uneasy Michael Rutter grapples with Freedom Evolves , Daniel Dennett's study of free will....
The Royal Centre for Defence Medicine at Birmingham University is not yet two years old, but its staff are already facing their first war. Described as the "home of tomorrow's military professorial...
A wave of anti-war feeling could help the far left break the 20-year Labour Party dominance of the National Union of Students in next Tuesday's elections for NUS president. There are seven candidates...
Universities Scotland has launched a groundbreaking complaints review, with students who feel that they have been unfairly treated by their institution queuing up to use it. Leading QC Colin MacAulay...
Queen's University Belfast has hit back at criticism that only per cent of its students come from working-class backgrounds, saying it needed the income from top-up fees to maintain its level of...
Caroline Davis reports on criticism of Medical Research Council grant process A climate of fear prevented top-rated UK medical researchers speaking out about the way the Medical Research Council...
The Wellcome Trust announced new technology transfer awards worth £40 million this week, with some of the funding going directly to universities, writes Anna Fazackerley. The investment coincides...
Five universities have joined together to air their research on television screens across the world. The pilot "Research TV" project, instigated by the University of Warwick, consists of eight weekly...
The image of slick US lawyers in television dramas is discouraging school-leavers from considering studying law at university, research commissioned by the Scottish Executive has found. Scottish...
Employers may be required to pay more towards the cost of training in universities and colleges, but only if institutions make their courses more relevant to employers' and students' needs, education...
A mobile internet company founded by four Cambridge graduates has attracted six-figure first-round funding to meet growing demand for services on phones and personal digital assistants. Hypertag has...
Scottish social work experts are disappointed that new measures to boost social work education have fallen short of English moves to give students bursaries, writes Olga Wojtas. But they welcomed...
There are growing fears among Scottish universities that their UK research competitiveness will suffer without extra funding from the Scottish Executive. Last week's funding allocation from the...
Since a Labor government introduced Australia's unique "study now, pay later" scheme nearly 15 years ago, 1.7 million Australians have attended university and been charged only about a quarter of the...