(Photograph) - Future imperative: The Grand Amphitheatre of the Sorbonne in Paris. Last weekend 15,000 students from all over France crowded into the university to cross question a glittering array...
Goldsmiths College is asking for voluntary staff redundancy to prepare for the next academic year, when the Higher Education Funding Council safety net which has protected it is withdrawn. Earlier...
The British leader of a Europe-wide space project now under threat says that the United Kingdom will be reduced to "hang-ing onto people's coat tails" if problems in space research funding are not...
The "greening" of the higher education curriculum is being resisted because it is seen as a form of political correctness although activists in other areas influence the curriculum unchallenged...
A Dutch study to be unveiled next week in London will propose a radical approach to defining and assessing research to address the changing relationship between science, technology and society. The...
(Photograph) - Pulling Power: Lorenzo Komboa Ervin, the former Black Panther who hijacked a plane to escape an FBI shoot-to-kill order, was given a standing ovation when he spoke at the London School...
Religion is to be invoked in the fight against a superquarry on the Hebridean island of Harris. Alastair McIntosh of Edinburgh University's centre for human ecology plans to argue about the integrity...
Education is the most important thing of all. With it you can get a job and move up the social ladder." I heard these words spoken by Nadia, a sixth-former, when, as chair of the Commission on Social...
The commission states: "The challenge for the 21st century is to extend high standards to far more people." Changes in funding: "The present structure and funding of universities simply cannot cope...
The latest initiative in the furthering of public understanding of science is the first British consensus conference, in which lay people give a verdict on a controversial public issue. It begins...
The Government's reorganisation of community care is threatening the survival of small care organisations and is based on an oversimplistic view of the public and private sectors, according to...
London's resistance to flooding is deteriorating because of ever increasing development on its flood plains, according to research being carried out at Middlesex University. In a lecture last week,...
Scientists at Cambridge University have developed a biological sensor for detecting heroin which can identify individual particles of the drug measuring just thousandths of a millimetre. The work at...
Chopping boards could hold the key to a better understanding of food poisoning, says a microbiologist at Leeds Metropolitan University. Government figures released last week show that food poisoning...
Bilal Noor was more than an hour late for work this morning. Senior lecturer in law at Srinagar University of Kashmir, he faces a series of arbitrary and humiliating searches by the paramilitary...