Researchers are questioning whether the winds of change are blowing hard enough to meet the UK's energy needs, despite trade and industry secretary Patricia Hewitt's commitment to wind power. Ms...
The science research councils should be dissolved and replaced with a national science foundation, leading science figures said this week. The Royal Society of Chemistry, whose chief executive writes...
How has the fall in the value of the stock market since The THES' first analysis of university wealth in 2001 affected the financial health of UK institutions? Claire Sanders and Alison Goddard...
Keele University shocked staff last week by announcing a new wave of job losses before its present round of cutbacks has been completed. About 24 academic posts are expected to go in the latest...
University staff are more stressed than people in comparable jobs, such as those in the police force or county councils, according to new research. Job insecurity heads the list of troubles, followed...
Prime-time television viewers in the UK could soon be treated to an advert promoting academic journals after the success of a 30-second commercial in the US. It was aired during big-audience shows to...
A quarter of students have been bullied into having sex and a third have physically assaulted their partner, researchers at Glasgow Caledonian University believe. In a survey of 250 students at GCU,...
A motorsports academy may get off the starting grid with a share of £16 million from the government. The cash, announced by trade and industry secretary Patricia Hewitt, has been given in response to...
The standards of degree courses offered by more than 100 institutions validated by the Open University have been called into question by the Quality Assurance Agency. After an audit of one of the OU'...
Almost 40 students seeking about £1 million compensation after Oxford Brookes University failed to gain professional accreditation for their osteopathy degree course have been offered ex gratia...
The British government risks trampling on academic freedoms and university autonomy as it attempts to reform higher education, a visiting South African vice-chancellor has warned. Barney Pityana,...
Union attacks on singling out "star" teachers and departments for financial reward rather than raising salaries across the board have drawn a muted response from the Higher Education Funding Council...
An ombudsman for universities will be ready to take student complaints from next January - four months later than the government promised in its white paper and three years after ministers called for...
Equal opportunities and fairness for all staff will be boosted by a £250,000 research programme by the funding councils, write Alison Goddard and Olga Wojtas. The programme aims to "lead to...
Good to see Middlesex University is upholding the highest standards of spellink, grammer and sintacks. Its journalism and communications studies student handbook, a copy of which was sent to The...