Residents fear halls are swamping town
Loughborough University has been accused of "swamping" the town with student bedsits, halls and cars. Loughborough residents and planners said the university's plan to accommodate more than 1,000...
Loughborough University has been accused of "swamping" the town with student bedsits, halls and cars. Loughborough residents and planners said the university's plan to accommodate more than 1,000...
The Wellcome Trust has announced £150 million of grants to help universities modernise their research facilities. The 34 grants were shared between 25 institutions, including £7.9 million for the...
Employers were due to improve on a 3.3 per cent pay offer in a crunch meeting with the trade unions as The THES went to press this week. But the expected increased offer is unlikely to be good enough...
A seismic survey of Silbury Hill is to be carried out to reveal the pits and tunnels that threaten Wiltshire's giant enigmatic neolithic monument. Archaeologists concerned by the prospect of Europe's...
Sunday Cars flow over the brow of the hill like Indians heading for General Custer. Visitor numbers for the Eden Project are more than double planned for - as one of the last millennium projects we...
A whole new area of academic research has emerged - the study of Anthony Giddens, director of the London School of Economics. This month sees the launch of a third book edited by Christopher Bryant,...
Oxford University has invited the cream of the Northeast's teenagers to a special conference at Newcastle United's ground with a free lunch and a chance to meet footballers, in an attempt to boost...
Congratulations to Simon Lee, rector and chief executive of Liverpool Hope University College. He has been shortlisted for the accolade of Britain's best boss in a competition sponsored by Lloyds TSB...
Edinburgh University recently hosted an interdisciplinary conference, organised by its Metamorphosis student society, on how to make work more interesting, creative, healthy, inspiring, fun and...
Jocelyn Bell Burnell , professor of physics at the Open University, has been appointed dean of science at the University of Bath . Charles Bodman Rae , director of studies at the Royal Northern...
City University will award honorary degrees to: Sir Richard Wilson , cabinet secretary and head of the home civil service; Clive Leyman , former chief aerodynamicist on Concorde; journalist Simon...

The new dean of the City University Business School plans to haul it from the lower ranks of the business school league tables to become one of the world's premier clubs. Months after defecting from...
C. W. Watson examines the steps Indonesia is taking to ensure that identity does not become a crisis. Well aware of the fragility of the unity of the Indonesian state, successive governments have...
Princeton Princeton University's trustees have chosen its first female president. Shirley Tilghman, a senior molecular biology professor, will take over from Harold Shapiro in June. Arlington The...

As the world economy slows and the Bush administration displays a degree of ambiguity over its aid policies, targets set last year in Dakar for gender equity in schools by 2005 and universal primary...