The head of one of ߣߣÊÓƵ's leading academic institutions, Monash University, admitted to "a serious violation of scholarly standards" during the early research that launched his distinguished...
The financial plight of the UK's students has been laid bare in thousands of letters sent to prime minister Tony Blair. More than 3,000 letters handed into Downing Street in February have been...
An internal review of Manchester University's department of English and American studies has concluded that it is "dysfunctional" and racked by hostility, sexism, bullying and harassment. The damning...
Oxford University will open its £60 million Chemical Research Laboratory today with almost no funding from UK industry. Graham Richards, chairman of chemistry, is expected to be highly critical of...
The Royal Society was recalled by MPs this week to explain events leading up to the resignation of Bridget Ogilivie from the Committee on the Public Understanding of Science. The House of Commons...
Turkey's Uludag University theology department has published a book on Satanism after a spate of suicides by Turkish youths who were linked to devil worship.
French premier Jean-Pierre Raffarin has enlisted a female former astronaut as minister for research and new technologies in his new government. Claudie Haigneré, 45, has been on board two space...
One of Britain's top teacher education centres is considering abandoning training because it is no longer cost-effective. This would deal a blow to the government's drive to ease the teacher...
Plans for the largest interdisciplinary research conference in Europe are being drawn up to highlight the continent's academic cutting edge. Euroscience 2004, to be held in Stockholm in two years'...
More than 800 years of scholarly tradition will end when the last Oxbridge course to insist on Latin fluency begins admitting students who have not learned the language. Cambridge University's...
Universities are to be ordered to clamp down on vice-chancellors' pay following an investigation triggered by The THES . Payoffs for poorly performing vice-chancellors will be abolished along with...
News Ten years of new universities: an expensive vanity? Features Baruch Blumberg: from hepatitis B to astrobiology Stephen Devereux debates the role of academics in preventing famine Rewriting the...
New universities are far more likely to aim for the Investors in People award than old ones, according to research from the University of Hertfordshire. But they want the award, intended to show...
The governors of Robert Gordon University were this week debating a confidential report that could lead to merger with neighbouring Aberdeen University by 2004. Aberdeen's court will consider the...
Iain Gray, Scotland's minister for enterprise, transport and lifelong learning, says there are still severe concerns about further education's financial health. Mr Gray warned the Association of...