Nothing was going to keep the world's scientists away from Africa and from trying to solve the sun's greatest mystery. Aisling Irwin reports Scientists still travel thousands of miles to spend...
Because they, like the impala, were spooked when the sky went black. Astronomer Paul Murdin basks in the spectacle of the 21st century's first total solar eclipse and describes its effects on the...
Is the external examiner a paid patsy or a fair arbiter? Jonathan Brill reflects on the job he has done for 25 years. I am at the end of 25 years as an external examiner variously in pop music,...
Space and movement sound like elements of an acting class, but Sherry Jordon has found that using them to dramatise points makes her teaching more effective. Several years ago I attended a series of...
Estimates of a near £1 million price tag for a university ombudsman to deal with student complaints could be a gross under-estimation, student leaders warned this week. A consultation paper on the...
Geoff Palmer, a professor Heriot-Watt University, has written a modern fable about prejudice, Mr White and The Ravens , published by Gopher Publications. Moussa Jogee, of the Commission for Racial...
The decision by one of the leading stem-cell researchers to move to Britain could herald a brain drain from the United States, according to US scientists. Roger Pedersen, a professor of reproductive...
School pupils fear universities will ignore their AS-level qualifications in favour of traditional A levels, according to a draft report published this week by the Institute of Education. The report...
The London School of Economics has formed a strategic alliance with New York's Columbia University and a collaboration with Imperial College, London. The alliances should strengthen the clout of the...
Brenda Gourley, vice-chancellor of the University of Natal in South Africa, will become vice-chancellor of the Open University. Professor Gourley believes that universities have social...
Relations between Northern Ireland's higher and further education minister Sean Farren and his Stormont scrutiny committee collapsed over student fees, a report has claimed. Research by the...
A United States-based project to combat the high costs of scientific journals by creating publishing partnerships with academics and institutions has launched a European arm. Sparc Europe is due to...
These days, the University of St Andrews has to cope with an extended title, "where-Prince-William-will-study-art-history". It is also having to cope with intense and often inaccurate media coverage...
"New managerialism" is emerging as a dominant force in British higher education, according to a two-year study into the running of universities. A team led by Rosemary Deem, professor of education at...
A "not particularly conventional" fanfare for five groups of brass and percussion opens tonight's first night of the 2001 Promenade Concerts. It is by Colin Matthews, recently appointed professor of...