The power of advertising to "rewrite" childhood memories has been exposed with the help of Bugs Bunny. A group of students was prompted by a phoney magazine advertisement to recall a meeting with the...
The government's rhetoric on widening participation has not been matched by appropriate action, higher education leaders warned this week. A Universities UK conference on widening participation heard...
Ethnic minority doctors face discrimination from the moment they apply to medical school to the day they retire, according to a report out this week from the King's Fund, an independent think-tank....
Academics and clerics have accused the archbishop of Canterbury of bringing the Anglican faith into disrepute in a row over his power to award degrees. The church has rejected an applicant for its...
A discrepancy in accounting systems has threatened the jobs of nearly half the staff at the University of Greenwich's Natural ߣߣÊÓƵ Institute. Up to 130 of the institute's 280 staff face...
Art student Marion Downes was devastated when her sister's Ford Fiesta containing a whole year's work was stolen as she prepared for her degree show. Any hope of retrieving the 2,000 photographs and...
A quality assurance expert this week suggested that a "cartel" of quality inspectors was artificially bolstering the performance of philosophy departments in the Quality Assurance Agency's teaching...
Brunel appoints new vice-chancellor Brunel University's new vice-chancellor will be Steven Schwartz (pictured), head of Murdoch University in Perth, Western ߣߣÊÓƵ. Professor Schwartz was born in...
A Quality Assurance Agency special review that denied Bolton Institute the title of university has been dismissed as "selective, unbalanced, factually inaccurate, and procedurally flawed". The attack...
Government scientists have warned of more public health crises on the scale of BSE or worse as a result of under-investment in research. The Institution of Professionals, Managers and Specialists has...
The Scottish Qualifications Authority has admitted it has some 13,000 incomplete course entries for students nine weeks before candidates are due to be sent examination results. But SQA senior...
There is "clear evidence of institutional racism" in further education colleges, an independent nationwide inquiry has found. Black people make up a tiny proportion of teaching and support staff in...
The submerged history of Scapa Flow is being uncovered through a joint effort by higher education and marine technology. A survey of the warship wrecks of the German High Seas Fleet, scuttled 82...
Has the proportion of good degrees awarded by universities changed? Nicola Bright, Andrew Hindmarsh and Bernard Kingston examine the claim that institutions are guilty of grade inflation. Almost all...
Richard Ryder Psychologist, visiting lecturer on ethical issues and trustee of the RSPCA Speciesism is the irrational prejudice against other animals merely because they are of a different species....