Edinburgh University has launched a campaign to collect books for Iraq's universities. Yasir Suleiman of Edinburgh's Institute for the Study of the Arab World and Islam initiated the campaign. He...
Hideous concrete structures may not be needed to protect beautiful coastlines from vanishing into the sea, according to research from the University of Sheffield, writes Martin Ince. The university's...
Some women could be undergoing unnecessary breast-reduction surgery because they wear the wrong size bra, according to UK researchers, writes Natasha Gilbert. Adam Greenbaum, specialist registrar in...
THES writers report on changes to legislation on stem-cell research as nations struggle with their consciences. The UK was the first country in the world to pass laws to permit researchers to use...
If there is one man best placed to deal with the potentially explosive negotiations (news, page 4) over the implementation of new pay structures for universities being finalised this week, it is...
Emmanuel flexes minds and muscles Emmanuel has been rated the best college for academic performance at Cambridge University. The college leads the Tompkins table of exam results for the first time...
MP Kerry Pollard had opposed top-up fees. Now he is convinced they are necessary. He explains what changed his mind When top-up fees for universities were first suggested, I vigorously opposed them....
Nanoscience is just a new term for vast swaths of modern science, and whatever threat is posed today is in no way novel. Oh no, here we go again. The self-appointed saviours of the world, who scan...
Monday Meet scientists, artists and film-makers who will share this trip to highlight the effects of ocean currents on us and our climate. We will sail on a 100-year-old schooner around Spitsbergen,...
The Reverend Ian Paisley's firebrand Democratic Unionist Party lost no time in denouncing a £300 bursary at Queen's University, Belfast, in the name of murdered nationalist solicitor Pat Finucane as...
And another legal success story: Eddie "the eagle" Edwards, formerly Britain's first and only Olympic ski jumper, has graduated in law from De Montfort University. Famous for coming last with some...
Alistair Boxall, a pollution researcher at Cranfield University, has strong ideas about academic leadership. Faced with an experiment in which chemicals were to be added to 70,000 litres of pig...
Education secretary Charles Clarke was technologically challenged at the launch of the government's e-learning strategy consultation document at Birkbeck College, London, last week. Lights and sound...
Catherine Belsey, Professor of English at Cardiff University and chair of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory. She will give a plenary lecture at the "English - The Condition of the Subject"...
Britain needs to roll four research councils into one national body, says David Giachardi Albert Einstein said: "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler." If Einstein...