The Natural Environment Research Council is looking to save £24 million up to 2006 by reducing or withdrawing funding from current priorities. After consultation with more than 80 organisations...
Tuition fees and student loans penalise the poor and benefit the wealthy in higher education, according to a report for vice-chancellors. The Social Class and Participation report, launched on...
The Association of University Teachers Scotland has praised moves to improve "people management" in higher education, which it hopes will include a better deal for contract researchers, writes Olga...
Further and higher education funding chiefs need to rethink proposals for cross-sector collaboration if they want to widen participation, college heads have said. Plans to create new regional...
London's lecturers are worse off than the school teachers who went on strike last week over their London allowance, the Association of University Teachers said, writes Phil Baty. At a picket of the...
The research assessment exercise should be replaced with a biennial peer review conducted by all university departments to produce ranked lists for each subject area, according to a proposal by Roger...
An academic criminologist whose expert legal testimony helped to expose flaws in child sex-abuse investigations and overturn convictions has had his office and home raided by police in an...
Students may be required to put coursework through an electronic plagiarism filter when an online detection system is launched in September. It will be part of a national plagiarism advisory service...
Hummingbirds are high-maintenance creatures, writes Caroline Davis. They are one of the smallest warm-blooded vertebrates and their heart rate is about 1,260 beats a minute, their wings can beat as...
Scientists have drawn up one of the most detailed inventories yet of the proteins associated with a single type of human cell, writes Steve Farrar. A team at Oxford University has picked out at least...
A spin-off company formed by a language expert at Heriot-Watt University has created an automated translation system that aims to meet the software industry's need for high-speed, high-quality...
A team of British and Dutch educationists today finished a week's whistle-stop inspection tour of 14 ߣߣÊÓƵn universities aimed at gleaning information on how to use computers more flexibly to...
If you want to know how a locust avoids high-speed collisions, take it to a movie. Roger Santer reports. Animals' visual systems are incredibly good at extracting useful information from a very...
The Learning and Skills Council is clamping down on fraud that could cost the taxpayer millions of pounds as cases emerge at the rate of four a month. Special investigators are probing a growing...
The spat between ministers and college heads over further education standards rolled on this week, with both sides trading blows. In a letter to college principals and the Association of Colleges,...