Citation circus ignites explosion THE SUBMITTER'S TALE Graham Barnfield, lecturer in American studies, Brunel. "It's a waiting game: from sending an article to a journal to actually getting the...
Paul Davies, one of the world's great communicators of science, talks to Harriet Swain about religion and fame, and (right) explains why the origin of life remains such a mystery Paul Davies is...
Perhaps the three greatest outstanding challenges to science at the turn of the Millennium are the origin of the universe, the origin of life and the origin of consciousness. The first and last of...
The ANC's attempts to make South Africa's universities cater for the black majority population has plunged them into crisis, argues R. W. Johnson South Africa's universities are struggling against...
Last week 150 academics supported a letter opposing the government's welfare reforms. In the latest in the series on social exclusion, Ruth Lister explains what is wrong with pushing people off...
Two thousand new research journals spin off the presses every year. Why? reports Ever heard of Bradford's law? It is the rule that of the cornucopia of journals produced by academics to publish the...
(Photograph) - Tate Gallery: Elizabeth Tate, lecturer at Sunderland University, installs her sculpture, 'Bronze Grove', as part of a university exhibition at Bradley Nursery and Gardens, Wylam,...
ABOUT 1,000 extra places will be created for medical students each year from 2005 - a 20 per cent increase on present levels - the government has announced. But academics are warning that quality...
THE University of Manchester medical school has come up with a radical solution to curriculum overload, writes Alison Utley. It has decided to abandon big lectures, and replace them with problem-...
Seen on the front of a box of research application forms at an unnamed university last week was the following advice: "HEALTH WARNING: Researching can damage your health. Most vice-chancellors don't...
The Further Education Funding Council's figures for 1996-97 reveal that: * enrolments to council-funded further education courses increased by 16 per cent to 3.1 million * part-time numbers were up...
(Photograph) - George Mudie, a former trade union official and deputy chief whip, emerged as the new lifelong learning minister in the government's reshuffle this week. Lord Sainsbury was the...
CASH-STRAPPED Matthew Boulton College, Birmingham. is to receive a Pounds 650,000 grant from the Department for Education and Employment to establish a centre of information and high technology...
ACADEMICS are retiring in droves while student numbers are rising, it emerged this week. Latest figures from the Higher Education Statistical Agency show the number of posts falling vacant as a...
UNIVERSITIES are to compete for a share of Pounds 30 million to set up centres of teaching expertise. The Higher Education Funding Council for England is to invite bids for centres in each subject...