Ian Boyd, professor at St Andrews University's Sea Mammal Research Unit, on our fascinating friends The excitement over a bottlenose whale's sojourn in the River Thames last week sank into...
* Sir Kenneth Calman , vice-chancellor of Durham University and former chief medical officer at the Department of Health, has been elected chancellor of Glasgow University. * Mike Cole , former...
Anna Fazackerley reports on an academic debate on extremism that led to public censure A public debate held this week between an intelligence expert and a vice-chancellor over the question of...
The system for vetting PhD students from high-risk countries is not working and is likely to be taken out of universities' hands, the conference was told. Michael Murtagh, a senior civil servant in...
City University this week launched its inaugural Plagiarism Awareness Week, offering workshops for staff and students on topics ranging from plagiarism-proofing assessments to updates on the latest...
The expansion of student numbers in dentistry could exacerbate staffing shortages in the discipline, a medical dean warned this week as funding chiefs decided on whether to fund a new dental school....
The rules of the game We examine all the key decisions and potential pitfalls in the assessment criteria for the 2008 RAE
Bestsellers and study staples deliver profitable returns, Jessica Shepherd finds Academics can boost their annual salaries by tens of thousands of pounds by producing undergraduate textbooks in...
Student leaders at Russell Group universities have threatened to boycott the national student satisfaction survey amid concerns that students were harassed on mobile phones for last year's study. The...
If higher education is to raise its profile, celebrity Tory Boris Johnson could be the man to do it. And he is already putting financial freedom for universities in the spotlight, writes Anna...
Bill Rammell is proud to take his widening-participation mission to working-class pupils, reports Steve Farrar The schoolchildren loll on their silver beanbags, staring warily up at the man who has...
Top-up fees will deter students from applying to four-year undergraduate degree courses in science, languages and engineering, a Government-commissioned study has warned. Students will shun the...
Oxford and Cambridge universities have joined the International Alliance of Research Universities, a global network of research-intensive universities that was launched at an inaugural meeting in...
Officials of the Educational Institute of Scotland have decided not to hold a strike ballot after initial talks between unions and university employers this month. The union's executive, which...
City University's Cass Business School is setting up premises in Canary Wharf, making it the first business school to establish itself in London's Docklands. The first course to be delivered at the...