You need neither muscles nor testosterone to work a computer, said Jackie Edwards, the winner of the inaugural Aurora Woman of Technology award. Ms Edwards, who also won the Best Woman in Technology...
* Oxford University has appointed: Nicholas Rawlins , professor of behavioural science at the university, to the Watts chair of psychology; Jonathan Zittrain , former Jack N. Berkman and Lillian R....
Top universities are queuing up to get involved in running the Government's new trust schools, the Education Secretary has told MPs, writes Jessica Shepherd. Ruth Kelly told the Education and Skills...
Would your institution take the tobacco pound? Phil Baty examines a revealing document A global cigarette company identified six UK universities that privately indicated that they would be willing to...
Cardiff has claimed the crown as Wales' number one pink university, writes Jessica Shepherd. The university is so eager to discuss sexual orientation in the workplace that it has become the first...
A high-flying US associate professor has been fired for making up data in a published scientific paper, grant applications and manuscripts. Luk Van Parijs, a biologist at the prestigious...
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Academics will be given guidelines next week about how to deal with extremism in the seminar room and on campus. On Monday, Universities UK and the Standing Conference of Principals will publish...
The Government has called on the Higher Education Funding Council for England to encourage more bottom-up innovative approaches to finding solutions to vulnerable strategic subjects. In a letter to...
Glamorgan University is to build a £35 million campus in Cardiff to benefit from the city's culture and arts scene. The campus will house a new School of Creative and Cultural Industries...
Incorrect details about two murals at the University of Wales, Bangor, appeared in last week's Times Higher . Walking in Rome was painted in 1999 by Catrin Webster, the other mural, Hall of Illusions...
Plymouth University's geography subject centre mentioned in the October 21 edition of The Times Higher is in fact the Subject Centre for Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences.
An expert on the former East Germany has published an angry rebuttal of claims that he assisted the Communist state's secret police in the 1980s, when he was a peace activist publicly supporting...
Labour MP Ian Gibson has resigned from the House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee and is setting up a rival group, The Times Higher can reveal. The rebel MP, who was renowned for...
Leeds Metropolitan University vice-chancellor Simon Lee was accused this week of mass bullying and of threatening to sack staff who do not attend next year's "staff development festival". A document...