Step aside, Bath
Hot on the heels of the news that the University of Bath is in the FA Cup proper comes reports of further student sporting prowess. Congratulations to the motor sports students at the University of...
Hot on the heels of the news that the University of Bath is in the FA Cup proper comes reports of further student sporting prowess. Congratulations to the motor sports students at the University of...
Another entry has arrived for The Diary's competition to name the institution created by any merger between Imperial College London and University College London - Imperversity. Meanwhile, the...
A German condom company has asked British students to test its products, rating them for comfort, pleasure and all-round performance. It is paying £100 per academic term for the students to test its...
The Higher Education Policy Institute, launched today, has announced its advisory board members. They are: Lord Dearing; Roger Brown, principal of the Southampton Institute; Sir Graeme Davies,...
The chair of the Disability Rights Commission, Bert Massie, has urged vice-chancellors to "show leadership" to ensure that their universities are ready for new disability rights legislation. Speaking...
The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council has announced it will cut one of its funding rounds to reduce its peer-review, research committee and administrative burden. The council...
The number of people applying to social work courses has risen by more than 8 per cent in the past year, according to provisional figures from the Social Work Admissions System - the route for 60 per...
Research income at the University of Sheffield was up 61 per cent in 2001-02 compared with the previous year. Vice-chancellor Bob Boucher said: "It's quite an achievement to go from just under £62...
A MORI poll is to be conducted to gauge how universities and colleges view the English funding council. The survey will take place from November 2002 to February 2003. Those working in higher and...
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This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a story about literary scholarship: "The book was thick and black and covered with dust." The winner...