With the cost of higher education in the United States soaring, a small but growing number of students are trying to save money by squeezing the traditional four-year degree programme into just three...
ߣߣÊÓƵPodcasts replace lecturersA student petition at the University of Western Sydney is demanding cuts in fees to match cuts in face-to-face teaching time. Tammy Lawlor, a 21-year-old first-year...
Priority funding is on offer for replacing protected lab animals with invertebrates, reports Zoe Corbyn
NC3RsThe National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research has funded ten new grants, totalling £2.6 million.Award winner: Sue BarnettInstitution: University of...
Minister rebuts allegations that only 'commercial' projects get government support, writes Zoe Corbyn
Scientists mounted a robust defence of funding for fundamental research at the annual Festival of Science organised by the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BA) in Liverpool last...
Zoe Corbyn meets the biologist working to boost Sino-British links and probe Chinese medicine's secrets
Mary Evans says the sector stands to gain from greater use of retired scholars' wisdom, experience and independence
Educational research is meaningless and out of touch because it is completely divorced from wider social concerns, argues Dennis Hayes
At first, those chosen for academic audit were startled rabbits, says Frank Burnet; soon they had wised up to minimise the risk of injury
Report calls for national pool of fee income to end 'market' in bursaries. Melanie Newman reports
When confronted with protests over plans for a stripper to appear at a conference on campus, managers at the University of Nottingham reached an uneasy compromise.Rather than banning the striptease...
A US-style aptitude test, proposed by government advisers to help disadvantaged teens get into university, favours white boys from grammar schools, researchers say. The use of American SATs - which...
Concerns about Martin Everett's management are being investigated. Melanie Newman reports
A new standard procedure outlining how universities should investigate allegations of research misconduct has been issued by the UK Research Integrity Office (UKRIO).But the procedure, which dictates...