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...
... but metrics won't improve things, says British Academy. Zoe Corbyn and Hannah Fearn report
Numerically measuring the impact that humanities and social-science research has on public policy, the economy and society is essential to ensuring that the research is not undervalued.This is the...
University coffers take a hit from unexpectedly high pay costs, report Phil Baty and Melanie Newman
John Denham calls for a faster response to concern over standards, Rebecca Attwood writes
The overall income of the higher education sector has soared in the past decade, but average surpluses generated by universities are lower than some would like.The findings are made in a report by...