The man planning to inject £100 million of mostly private money into the UK's stem-cell research community believes treatments based on the research could be available in about two years. Sir...
Research fellows should try a stint at the coalface, reckons Tim Birkhead Judging from the correspondence that followed a recent Times Higher article about "grumpy old staff", several other readers...
Graham Turner looks at how to sustain the rise in the number of deaf students Would you go to university if you couldn't hear a word of what the lecturers said? Research in the early 1990s showed...
Managers who feel the need to rebrand their institutions should ensure they have enough in their coffers - and then get expert advice, advises Harriet Swain You've had enough of your fuddy-duddy...
John Palfreyman, head of school, gives the lowdown on contemporary sciences at the University of Abertay, Dundee * Total number of academic staff: 41, including office staff, technicians, research...
The UK's top academic teachers launched a formal group this week that will give them an independent voice and help them to shape higher education policy. Academics awarded National Teaching...
Staff in Imperial College London's top-rated neuroscience and medicine divisions have been warned that their jobs may be at risk, prompting fears that a good research assessment exercise result may...
An Oxford University spin-off has secured proof-of-concept funding from a US-based investor. Surface Therapeutics is celebrating first-round funding of £1.5 million - enough, it hopes, to prove that...
US scientists are coordinating a plan to create a research centre in the Arava Valley that sits half on Israeli territory and half on Jordanian territory. Mati Kochavi, an Israeli businessman who...
Ukraine's "orange revolution" and the inauguration last week of President Viktor Yushchenko will mean a major shake-up for the country's higher education system.J Part of Mr Yushchenko campaign...
Hundreds of jobs will be shed in coming years as mergers between South African universities begin to bite, especially at departments that are duplicated across campuses. At the University of Fort...
France's scientific community has united to oppose policies outlined in a leaked draft of a proposed research law, claiming that it breaks funding promises made to a sector "in danger", writes Jane...
Germany's federal constitutional court last week lifted a nation-wide ban on university fees. States will now be able to levy fees without having to get approval from Berlin, as is currently the case...
Austrian universities could be forced to drop an "education-for-all" policy for home students and introduce strict selection procedures if a European Court of Justice ruling forces them to accept...
The Swiss federation is in uproar over plans by the University of Neuchtel to axe its chairs in Italian and ancient Greek. The university, which is in a French-speaking canton, wants to concentrate...