Raising youngsters' aspirations is a more effective way of getting them into higher education than offering financial incentives, according to a US study. The work by Nobel laureate James Heckman and...
Universities subsidise research commissioned by outside bodies to the tune of £2 billion a year, it was revealed this week. The full extent of the funding gap emerged from an official review that did...
Independent school heads are demanding further clarity on how universities select students. A statement issued yesterday by four independent schools' heads' associations says: "No government should...
News Countdown to cash: first in a series setting out the issues faced by next month's white paper Features A day in the life of Mike Brown, vice-chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University; Keith...
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"Sykes to bring science to the people" screamed the headline on an email arriving from the University of Bristol. Given that Sir Richard Sykes last week announced his intention to merge Imperial...
Television historians clashed in Oxford this week as Tristram Hunt and Simon Schama launched their latest books. Dr Hunt is well known for his literalism: during his BBC series on the English civil...
The passage of time seems not to have eased Jocelyn Bell Burnell's feelings about the 1974 Nobel prize for physics. Antony Hewish won it for the discovery of pulsars, the bizarre rotating remains of...
Pub and club owners in Austria are threatening legal action against students who organise large student parties. Business owners, particularly in smaller cities such as Salzburg, have complained that...
News reaches The Diary from Liverpool John Moores University where elections are being held for the academic board. Three professors will be allowed to sit on the board. Ballot forms listing six...
A Norwegian lecturer has launched a campaign to get more ugly people on to the nation's television shows. Trond Andresen, of the Norwegian Institute of Technology, said that journalists,...
Congratulations to Hilary Hurd, who was one of the first recipients of a Daphne Jackson fellowship and now, 12 years later, has been appointed professor of parasitology at Keele University. Best...
* Leicester and De Montfort universities have signed a private finance deal worth more than £400 million. The deal will invest £25 million in academic facilities at Leicester General Hospital....
Sir Anthony Greener, deputy chairman of British Telecom and chairman of the University for Industry, has been appointed chairman of the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority on an interim basis...
Sheffield Hallam University's School of Cultural Studies is to be relocated to a city-centre site after a £17 million investment was agreed by the university's board of governors this week.