Reaching a healthy 100
The City of Edinburgh's battle against disease and illness over the past 100 years is the subject of a book launched at Edinburgh University this week. Public Health: Past, Present and Future was...
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Stolen kisses recover the past
Snogging on the back seat of the local cinema is just one of the cherished memories being recorded by Christy Evans as part of a University of Central Lancashire community arts project. Now Ms Evans...
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Clarke calls for credit framework by 2010
A national system allowing students, academics and employers to measure and compare degree performance should be in place by the end of the decade, Charles Clarke, the Education Secretary, has said....
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Child sex researcher had ban on his record
A researcher accused of "playing into the hands" of paedophiles with a PhD thesis describing positive experiences of sex between children and adults is a former teacher who was struck off the...
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Turner winner's tribute
Jeremy Deller, the artist who won this year's Turner prize, paid tribute to his former Sussex University tutor, David Mellor, this week, writes Caroline Davis. "David was the reason I came to Sussex...
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Oxford eases penalty on student hackers
Two Oxford University student journalists who were suspended after they hacked into the university's computer system to expose security flaws have had their punishments reduced on appeal, writes Phil...
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Access study to ignore medics
A government report on how to widen access to key public-sector professions will no longer look at medicine, despite evidence that medical school applications are still dominated by the highest...
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Will UK soon be lost for words on world stage?
Charles Clarke stresses the importance of minority languages, while key modern languages are allowed to decline. Anthea Lipsett reports on mixed messages "No one could speak Arabic in the Central...
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Global developments mean Anglophone insularity needs to be tackled
Galina Yemelianova , a Russian specialist in Arabic and Islamic studies at Birmingham University, may speak six languages but she cannot persuade her children to follow her example. "I try to get...
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UK may lose edge in global market
A "tidal wave" of English learning that will leave half the world's population able to speak English within a decade could wipe out part of the UK's competitive advantage in the overseas higher...
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Oxford calling
The Marconi Corporation has donated an unrivalled collection of wireless artefacts to Oxford University, including the microphone used by Dame Nellie Melba during the world's first live...
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QAA could face EU market
UK universities would be able to opt out of the Quality Assurance Agency's audit scheme under a European Commission plan. A draft recommendation on quality assurance published by the Commission last...
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E-learning to get own quality initiative
A European kitemarking scheme for online higher education will be launched next year in a bid to address the lack of confidence in the quality of e-learning. The European Foundation for Quality in E-...
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Creative spirit nets £31m spin-off income
The entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well in UK universities, according to figures that show the number of inventions up 72 per cent and total licensing income up nearly 40 per cent in a year....
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Best of the bright sparks
Martin Ince dissects the data to identify centres of science-based excellence The Times Higher World University Rankings (November 5) provoked a global debate among academics and the media about...