Indian student Amartya Sinha says he was "petrified" when he heard about the bomb attacks, some of which occurred a short walk from his accommodation at International Students' House. He said: "A lot...
RAE Countdown 2008 How will you be judged? Full unrivalled analysis of the proposed criteria of the research assessment exercise panels as the countdown to the 2008 RAE begins in earnest
Lord Sainsbury, the Science Minister, and Janez Potocynik, the European Research Commissioner, have reiterated their support for a Europe-wide funding agency for basic research despite continuing...
Ghost tours, voodoo experiences and gangster trails are examples of a burgeoning market in holidays that owe more to the theatre and theme parks than to traditional tourism, according to the latest...
Academics in the arts and humanities are waiting anxiously to hear the resolution of what has become known as the "super-book" issue: how much will major written works count when compared with basic...
The hugely popular Lord of the Rings films have inspired a generation of young German academics to research the linguistic roots of J. R. R. Tolkien's mythic world and ponder the politics surrounding...
The Government will not meet its pledge to send half of all young people to university by the end of the decade without a "sudden step change" in the numbers of boys and students from poor...
Criminologists this week attacked the Government's antisocial behaviour measures, likening ASBO trials to medieval witch-hunts and criticising ministers' preference for "soundbite, eye-catching and...
Pamela Gillies, pro vice-chancellor of Nottingham University, will become the new principal of Glasgow Caledonian University in March, succeeding Ian Johnston. Professor Gillies said: "Glasgow...
Three more higher education colleges have been granted university status by the Privy Council. Southampton Institute will now call itself Southampton Solent University and Canterbury Christ Church...
The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers, an umbrella body representing university presses, learned societies and other not-for-profit publishers, has called on the web search...
Job prospects for graduates continue to look bright, with the number of vacancies up by more than 11 per cent this year and starting salaries as high as £35,000 on offer. A biannual survey of 224...
The Higher Education Funding Council for England has published on its website guidelines on how universities should approach sustainable development. Sustainable development in higher education...
In our article on the Cambridge-MIT Institute last week (July 8), the statement by Tidu Maini, Imperial College London's pro rector for development and corporate affairs, referred to the CMI as...
Pupils attending a Leeds University summer school get a taste of an army boot camp. Pupils also met with some of Leeds' current student body to learn how they might benefit from degree study.