Universities and colleges north of the border may be in for a shock in this year's grant letters. Their two funding councils cannot guarantee more money, but they are promising lucid prose. The...
Nigel Dacre knows a thing or two about the media, so the managers at the London School of Printing who lured the former ITV news supremo to run their prestigious media school could be forgiven for...
Baron Brooke of Sutton Mandeville, who as Peter Brooke was Conservative higher education minister, secretary of state for Northern Ireland and chairman of the Churches Conservation Trust, will...
The government's higher education review paper, expected to be published in the next ten days, will be "radical" and "highly contentious", higher education minister Margaret Hodge told academics and...
Plans to axe PhD funding to departments that did badly in the research assessment exercise are being reconsidered by the funding councils following an outcry from some post-1992 universities. In a...
Plans to scrap traditional degree classifications were bolstered this week by figures showing a record increase in the number of first and upper-second class degrees awarded. Provisional figures...
The School of Law at the University of Westminster is one of the most highly rated in the country, gaining a 5 in the latest research assessment exercise. The views of the head of law, Andy Boon,...
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Caroline Davis reports on how we measure up to the challenge of innovation. The UK has a distinguished history of groundbreaking research in chemistry and an excellent international reputation for...
Caroline Davis reports on how we measure up to the challenge of innovation University managers were warned this week that plans to measure the impact of so-called third-stream funding activities...
Caroline Davis reports on how we measure up to the challenge of innovation The UK is the most innovative of the world's larger economies, according to new European Commission data. The 2002 European...
Caroline Davis reports on how we measure up to the challenge of innovation Leeds University has hived off its technology-transfer activities to the private sector. Leeds is believed to be the first...
A vast doughnut of stars has been found surrounding the Milky Way galaxy. The ring had previously gone unnoticed because of its low density and the clutter of intervening stars and dust, writes Steve...
The magnetic field generated by the tides has been observed for the first time. The feat could help map changes in ocean flow and cast light on climate change, writes Alison Goddard. The magnetic...
More than 60,000 students are invisible participants in higher education because their studies in further education colleges are not recognised by funding bodies or the outside world, a report...