A scheme that could see the salaries of some scientists topping £100,000 will not help new researchers and is elitist, according to university unions. This week, Lord Sainsbury invited institutions...
Many college managers are getting a raw pay deal compared with ordinary lecturers, with some accepting a pay freeze last year, their representative body has said. There has been no increase in the...
Numbers of university applicants for the next academic year are falling, according to figures from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service. Preliminary totals released to admissions officers...
Academic geography is set to give ethics an integral role amid increasing concern about the relationship of human beings with the natural world. This was the prediction of Peter Haggett, emeritus...
Is lifelong learning a form of social control? Alison Utley considers the arguments Education secretary David Blunkett wants an extra 625,000 adults to enter education next year. His Skills for Life...
Some sports and television stars seek more than public adulation - they want academic recognition too, as Julie McCord discovers It is a short distance from Salford University to the Granada...
Man-made disasters such as the Hatfield train crash, which has brought chaos to Britain's railway network, are a symptom of poor risk management, researchers have concluded. While company strategies...
The floods, gales and severe weather warnings this autumn and winter may be the result of 21st-century global warming, but they are nothing new. York University medievalist Jeremy Goldberg has...
Northern Ireland's peace process is in danger of being derailed by paramilitary violence, according to a study of the province's informal criminal justice systems. There has been a general acceptance...
The emergence of a new international distance learning accreditation organisation, the Educational Quality Accrediting Commission, has ruffled a few feathers. The Open and Distance Learning Quality...
The Learning and Teaching Support Network has called for a study into how pedagogical research is rated by subject panels when they are considering research assessment exercise submissions. Replying...
A cherished viewpoint in physics, and even in daily life for that matter, is that any action on something from a distance must somehow travel through the intervening space. This was put into question...
Almost every book or article on modern mysticism, paranormal phenomena, or alternative medicine, alludes to quantum mechanics as the scientific foundation for its claims. For example, in his best-...
While quantum theory informs our every move, we are still not masters of the multiverse it describes, says David Deutsch. A 1,000-mile journey begins, obviously, with a single step. But is it not...
Alverno College may be small, but it has a big influence on teaching methods. When Mary Staten first walked into Alverno College she immediately felt comfortable. She saw ceramic sculptures in glass...