Now the government has increased HE funding, employers should begin negotiations with staff over pay and conditions, says Tom Wilson. On Tuesday, members of the six higher education unions took part...
I first got interested in angels when researching my dissertation for my theology degree. I put articles in the Christian press and local church magazines and got 90 replies from people who wanted to...
Society has given science a 'licence to practise', but what should the conditions of that licence be? Aaron Klug considers the future. One of the highlights of the year was a report by the House of...
A fear of ants becomes a fascination as an engineer applies their genius to computers. As a kid, I was terrified of insects. I remember with retrospective anguish holidays in the south of France,...
Artists' creativity soars when they are courting. Scientists, it seems, make discoveries at a similar sexual pitch. Raj Persaud reports Is male scientific creativity basically an attempt to...
Raising the amount of reducing sugars such as glucose in hamburgers can halve the quantity of possible carcinogens generated during cooking, scientists have found. Experts at the Tokyo University of...
Fossilised trackways from the Grand Canyon, resembling little more than the idle doodles of some ancient stonecarver, are helping scientists trace out the emergence of complex life on earth. The...
A radical gene therapy for cystic fibrosis, delivered to the foetus while it is still in the womb, is a step closer following the successful transference of transgenes to the lungs of five monkeys....
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the Epidemiology of Infectious Disease, based at Oxford University, is to be disbanded following a year of rows and inquiries. The trust said a new director had not been...
A major university initiative to combat discrimination in higher education employment suffered a setback this week when it was left without a head. The announcement that Phil Barnet, director of...
Spain's BSE testing centre is fighting allegations that laboratory conditions at its University of Zaragoza base are unsafe. There has been a complaint that dissection equipment is shared with other...
Campus victory for gay couples Gay couples have won the right to βmarryβ in the gothic chapel of Duke University in North Carolina. Duke already allows same-sex commitment ceremonies for...
The General Medical Council found two researchers from King's College London medical school guilty of serious professional misconduct, both for dishonesty, in separate cases this week. A third...
Exam body told to reform The Scottish Qualifications Authority must adopt a culture of openness and cooperation, according to a report published today by the Scottish Parliamentβs education committee...
THE GUARDIAN Graduates are an increasingly powerful and demanding group, brimming with confidence and forcing employers to fulfil their expectations or risk losing the war for talent, a survey from...