Students ain't what they used to be - and that's official. A survey of UK deans of science shows that an overwhelming majority believe the elementary knowledge and mathematical and practical skills...
The government should heed the lessons learnt in Scottish further and higher education as it takes forward plans to expand HE through FE colleges in England, a new report says. Scotland has not only...
Peter Atkins made an unusually heartfelt appeal for universities to recognise the stresses and strains of authorship at a City University conference on the management of intellectual property this...
Loughborough University art students answered an emergency call from a group of women of a certain age who wanted to bare all in a fire station for a charity calendar. The women, aged between 35 and...
Eager birders at the University of East Anglia, which has a thriving twitcher culture, were able to tick off a rare white stork without leaving the campus this week. The bird, part of a small influx...
Is Italy following the fashion for "Mickey Mouse" degrees? For a mere €3,000 (£2,000), the University of Perugia is offering, jointly with a commercial FM station, a masters in disc jockeying. It...
Thursday There's war in Iraq and I am going to a conference on pop music. It is hard to suppress the sense of superficiality but, of course, music matters too - maybe more so in times such as these....
Jenny Sanders is a freelance writer with a background in social science In a provocative address to British sociologists, George Ritzer, distinguished professor of sociology at the University of...
Prince Charles must not bring his prejudice to the nanotechnology debate, writes Ian Gibson When the Prince of Wales warned this week that nanotechnology posed potentially "enormous environmental and...
New research rules give universities more freedom, but also bring more risk, says Richard Tomlin Universities witnessed scenes of frenetic activity as the deadline approached for the first round of...
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