Fields around Jodrell Bank could be planted with a dense forest of antenna in a bid to keep the iconic radio astronomy observatory in the forefront of world science. Scientists are drawing up plans...
Westminster University's academy for diplomats is at the centre of its own diplomatic row after international students complained about poor facilities and teaching standards. Postgraduate students...
Ivor Crewe, vice-chancellor of Essex University, has been elected president of Universities UK. He will take over from Roderick Floud in August 2003 and serve for two years. Professor Crewe said: "...
Andrew Dilnot , director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies and a Radio 4 presenter, will succeed Derek Wood as principal of St Hugh's College, Oxford; Frances Lannon , a fellow and history tutor at...
New graduates lack three of the skills they judge most used in the workforce - time management, task juggling and verbal communication - a survey shows. The skills deficit is a surprise finding of...
News • Out of step: military abandons Shrivenham for civilian universities Features • How can academics help tackle the transport crisis? • Is sports psychology a valid subject? Books • Ray Monk...
Four senior managers at Hull University spent a week living in student accommodation on a budget of just £24 to gain first-hand experience of their students' financial problems. The "students" were...
A group of 13 senior staff, including some of University College London's most famous names, was credited with halting plans to merge with Imperial College this week. Merger talks were called off....
London's Commonwealth Institute has opened negotiations with Cambridge University to set up a pan-Commonwealth centre of excellence in education. The institute, which recently suffered a financial...
Vice-chancellors throughout Wales and the Northeast of England have come out against the introduction of top-up fees. In a statement this week, heads of member institutions of the University of Wales...
The London School of Economics has applied for degree-awarding powers, putting further strain on the University of London, which currently awards its degrees, writes Alison Goddard. Imperial College...
The University of Hertfordshire hopes to have a medical school by 2010. A meeting between the university and key National Health Service partners last week agreed to establish a working group to take...
The business case to build a fourth-generation light source facility at Daresbury Laboratory has been given the green light by the government. The £120 million project would create a new light source...
The Clydesdale Bank is funding a £100,000 programme of Glasgow School of Art workshops to encourage schoolchildren to explore their creativity. The three-year Art for All programme, to be launched in...
Legislation for the reform of the General Medical Council was placed before Parliament last week. The reform will streamline the GMC, boost lay representation and introduce revalidation for all...