This could be a momentous year for universities and colleges. Expansion is back, and there is real enthusiasm both for sustaining universities' research and for at last cracking the grip of the...
US historians are preparing to fight a directive, sneaked through by George W. Bush in early November, that closes the archives on certain presidential papers. Huw Richards reports President George W...
What do you get when you combine old-style doctoring with 21st-century obstetrics? Harriet Swain meets King's College London's 'miracle maker' Kypros Nicolaides. The knock at the door comes just as...
In our series on the Big Science Questions, Aisling Irwin looks at the evidence for differences between the sexes beyond the basic mechanics of reproduction. "Why can't a woman be more like a man?"...
Acknowledging that men and women are not the same is not an argument for genetic determinism, writes Janet Radcliffe Richards. Were traditionalists right about men and women after all? They always...
The single currency is a reality for most European countries but unity is a distant dream. Willem Wolters sees trouble ahead if more power is wrested from proud nation states. On January 1, euro...
Athenaeum opens doors to women The first female academics have joined the Athenaeum Club in London. Oxford academic Baroness Greenfield, Rabbi Julia Neuberger and author Victoria Glendinning are...
Ex-manderin frets over education cash The former senior civil servant who headed the education department when Labour came to power in 1997 yesterday expressed concern that education had been starved...
Nasty surprise for knight Sir Ian Kennedy, who was knighted in the new year’s honours, has lost his job as professor of health law, ethics and policy at University College London. Sir Ian had secured...
France is passing key stages in its effort to achieve the Bologna declaration's aim of harmonising higher education across Europe. The consultative National Council for Higher Education and Research...
Reports that Chelsea Clinton may quit Oxford University in favour of the London School of Economics have proved untrue. There had been rumours that one of her aides had asked the LSE whether it would...
Plymouth University has scored a bit of a coup. It has recruited Roland Levinsky, vice-provost of University College London, as its next vice-chancellor. Professor Levinsky is head of UCL's graduate...
Handy hints for finance managers are offered in the current issue of University Business . Amid a welter of helpful hints, Joan Thompson, treasurer of Iowa State University, recommends that you paint...
Interdisciplinarity could be key to promoting a culture of debate in our universities, says Stephen Rowland. Critique and contestation are essential features of a democratic educational process. Life...
South Africa's universities and technikons are to benefit from a shift in British development funding towards tackling an HIV-Aids epidemic that is decimating the region, including its highly...