Brussels, 01 Sep 2003 An international conference on current research information systems will take place from 13 to 15 May 2004 in Antwerp, Belgium. The conference, entitled CRIS 2004, will aim to...
'Ignorant' scientists threaten wildlife survival The international effort to save wildlife from extinction is threatened by scientists' "extraordinarily limited knowledge" of biodiversity, the Royal...
Brunel University to set up school A revival of the ancient tradition of university schools is being planned to raise pupils' academic performances. Steven Schwartz, vice-chancellor of Brunel...
Queen's University, Belfast's director of communications Tom Collins has rejected tribunal claims that he flouted fair employment laws in the appointment of a publications officer. Catholic Patrick...
Eighty per cent of employers of students from Scottish further education colleges consider them well-prepared for work, according to the first performance indicators from the Scottish Further...
The government has invited tenders from institutions wishing to host an £800,000 women in science, engineering and technology resource centre. As part of its strategy to help boost the number of...
What has happened to the UK's £62m e-university? Mark Samuels reports Teaching students online can seem like a mission impossible. All too often, e-learning leaves students frustrated and bored....
Harris Manchester, Oxford's college for mature students and an important part of its access drive, is to cut history amid serious financial difficulties. The decision has angered students and the...
The study of hair may sound trifling, but it has thrust British Egyptologist Joann Fletcher into the centre of a heated international controversy. Dr Fletcher, who claimed last week to have found the...
Teaching grants for universities offering traditional degrees will be raided to pay for courses favoured by government under proposals by the Higher Education Funding Council for England. If the...
The government this week denied that it was planning to relaunch its top-up fees policy, writes Alison Goddard. Reports that ministers plan to rebrand £3,000-a-year top-up fees as an "individualised...
An Oxford University statistician has helped to dispel doubts about a study that identified Icelanders as a uniquely pure gene pool suitable for ground-breaking medical research. Peter Donnelly is a...
Geographers, famed for their interdisciplinary approach to research, fear that the field of human genetic testing could potentially open the floodgates to greater social and political discrimination...
Worldwide targets to stop plant and animal species disappearing could be missed because there are no definitive measures of rate of loss, according to the UK's leading scientists. Exactly a year ago...
Learning Latin used to be considered the key to learning other foreign languages, writes Neil Martin. Generations of schoolchildren knew that nobody spoke it any more and it seemed useful only to...