My clippings files are stuffed with Bloomsbury satires: a floor of the New York Public Library collapses under the weight of books by and about the Bloomsbury Group; to rival Dallas , a new soap...
Government constraints stymie useful work, so Alan Smithers is delighted to go independent The Centre for Education and Employment Research is moving to Buckingham University. It is not just that it...
The days when we trusted the judgement of a public inquiry are over, argues Kieron O'Hara Twenty years ago next month, the Report of the Committee of Inquiry into Human Fertilisation and Embryology,...
The Privy Council this week granted a university title to the former Roehampton Institute, which has been part of the federated Surrey University since 2000. Roehampton can use the university title...
More than 100 colleges in England and Wales are being investigated by police after being exposed as bogus institutions acting as a front for an immigration scam, the Home Office said this week. The...
Managers at North East Wales Institute have denied claims by union leaders that they are planning to make 19 science department staff redundant. A Newi spokesman said this week that a range of...
The days of filling in paper application forms to university look numbered as admissions chiefs plan to go fully electronic by 2006. The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service will work with...
Queen's University Belfast is to close its outreach campus in Northern Ireland's third city of Armagh not far from the border with the Irish Republic. Launched in a blaze of publicity almost a decade...
The Human Tissues Bill has been modified following fears that it would criminalise medical research. In its original form, the bill outlawed research using any human tissue without explicit prior...
Jack McConnell, Scotland's First Minister, has said he expects the UHI Millennium Institute to achieve university status by 2007, Scotland's Year of Highland Culture. This is the institute's own...
Big cash increases for clinical research may not stop pharmaceutical companies leaving the country unless the Government acts to reduce the bureaucracy stifling research, senior scientists warned...
A top US science adviser has praised the UK Government's science policy saying he wished that American leaders had the same vision. Charles Wessner, director of the technology and innovation...
Don't clutter your CV with irrelevant detail: keep it clear, brief and - most important - honest, says Susan Bassnett. It's curious how many academics have trouble presenting themselves and their...
Northern Ireland universities face difficulties in fundraising due to the lack of big industries in the Province, but Queen's University Belfast has not let this deter it from aiming for the top....
Louise Kirk Lecturer / Senior Lecturer Course Leader - Footwear Design Job advertised in The Times Higher September 19 2003. Shoe design has been offered as a degree course at De Montfort University...