Mary Warnock, the woman who chaired the influential inquiry into test-tube babies in the 1980s, makes the case for a Royal Commission on the future of genetic engineering. There has been much talk in...
Among the variety of subjects encroaching on the borders of sociology, the most intriguing challenge comes from cultural studies, which appears to offer the kind of exciting "activism" in its student...
As Tony Blair struggles to reshape society, many of those who should be advising him are stuck in a mire of navel-gazing and philosophical jargon. Alison Utley reports. Next week, sociologists from...
A pair of pigeons and an irritating hum led Arno Penzias to discover how the world began. Then he began his second career... Ayala Ochert reports. Half absent-minded professor, half fast-talking New...
My department wants to close a three-year course because of a drop in student demand. The problem is we have about 20 students halfway through the first year. What would be the legal position if we...
David Jobbins reports on the South African connection in the second part of a survey on global student mobility Mncedisi Mayekiso studied at Cape Town before enrolling on an MBA in marketing at the...
Moscow The George Soros-backed Central European University in Budapest is hoping to build on links forged with North Korea to offer masters' courses in economics and international relations to...
* Scottish secretary Donald Dewar has announced a Pounds 7.5 million package to help part-time higher education students.
David Jobbins reports on the South African connection in the second part of a survey on global student mobility Last September, ten South African students arrived in Britain on the first Nelson...
Lecturers' union Natfhe is pressing for a "fairer" share of research funding for new universities. In a meeting with science minister Lord Sainsbury this week Natfhe said teaching quality could be...
Aberdeen University has launched an ambitious fund-raising campaign to bring in Pounds 150 million in ten years. The "Sixth Century Campaign" has already won pledges of some Pounds 12 million towards...
Scottish higher education institutions have won a 3 per cent cash increase for teaching and a 1.5 per cent cash increase for formula grant research in the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council's...
Friday: East Jerusalem Wake disoriented, but recall I am due on a week's trip to Israel/Palestine to carry out fieldwork near Bethlehem and give a paper at the annual conference of the Israeli...
John Hogan, 37, academic registrar at the University of Durham has been appointed Durham's registrar and secretary from August 1. He succeeds John Hayward, who has been appointed provost of the...
Every good civil servant knows there is always a way of avoiding a direct answer to a direct question, and when this principle is put into practice it doesn't matter much what the question is....