The University of Westminster has been warned that it could be compromising academic standards in a drive to fill student places. The Quality Assurance Agency has advised Westminster in an audit...
The election to choose the new general secretary of the Association of University Teachers is "rigged", one of the three candidates for the post has complained, writes Phil Baty. Former AUT president...
The government's widening access policy is being undermined by persistent concerns about the quality of teaching on higher education courses delivered through further education colleges. Further...
Warwick University computer science department has helped a company in its own science park increase sales of its scientific imaging products by 230 per cent. The company, Improvision, partnered the...
The film school at the University of Wales College Newport is on a location hunt for major expansion, it was announced this week. Clive Myer, director of the International Film School of Wales, at...
In March 1989, a magnetic storm brought down the electricity grid in Quebec, plunging the province into darkness for nine hours. Such storms interfere with the electronics on spacecraft and have been...
Scientists have isolated the true scent of salmon in a bid to trap a major fish-farming pest. The light, sweet, mushroomy fragrance comes from key signalling chemicals produced by the fish. These...
Train drivers can learn how to handle emergencies resulting from extreme weather conditions or farm animals on the track thanks to a new virtual reality simulator. Designers at Teesside University's...
A Korean professor who admitted intentionally reproducing work from a Canadian academic paper may lose his job as part of a drive by his government to demonstrate that it intends to get tough on...
The A$261,000 (£95,238) a year salary paid to Australian prime minister John Howard is dwarfed by the salary packages received by many of the nation's vice-chancellors, which are believed to exceed A...
April The deadline for submissions to the 2001 research assessment exercise is only a few days off, and the jammed helplines testify to a frenzy of activity in institutions across the country. A...
Nuala O'Loan, the police ombudsman for Northern Ireland, will need all her strength of character in the next few weeks as she fights to defend her office's report into the police handling of the...
Universities UK has just issued its contender for the worst Christmas card of the millennium, with a collage of pictures of its staff in the shape of the organisation's logo. To be fair, most of them...
While today's results of the research assessment exercise are generally good, not everyone improved. Take, for example, the University of Oxford's submission for history, which slipped from 5* to 5....
Darwin College, Cambridge, has announced its lecture series for 2002, which will be on the theme of "power". Speakers will include veteran politician Tony Benn and Mary Archer. The college is keeping...