Ungentlemanly behaviour among researchers in the United Kingdom should be taken more seriously as an act of scientific misconduct, according to a leading academic. Instances of the theft of ideas by...
Neurologist Susan Greenfield has defended her action in patenting "an idea" that a fragment of a naturally occurring brain molecule could hold the key to treating Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases...
Some Beijing universities will soon be allowed to commercialise dormitory development and management, taking dormitory buildings completely out of university and college control. Last year, the...
BEIRUT The College Hall bell tower at the American University of Beirut was a landmark for the city for almost 120 years, until a bomb blew the building apart in November 1991. Throughout Lebanon's...
The University of St Thomas from St Paul, Minnesota, beat the University of Havana 7-0 in the first game between a US college baseball team and a Cuban university in Cuba since a visit by Johns...
Trade and industry secretary Stephen Byers was this week frantically attempting to find a means of ending the impasse over the siting of the United Kingdom's new synchrotron source. The Pounds 550...
A postgraduate centre, effectively closed by Edinburgh University in 1996, has launched the first MSc course of the third millennium, a stone's-throw from its former premises. The Centre for Human...
A college head of department who was sacked following accusations she made lesbian advances towards two of her staff has won her unfair dismissal claim. Mary Collins, former head of the school of...
Cricklade College lecturer Andrew Murray was sacked for blowing the whistle on the mismanagement of European grants, an employment tribunal heard this week. The tribunal took place as the full extent...
The latest plans for a university in Cornwall will be announced next week, after years of wrangling over sites. The "hub" of the project is now believed to be at Tremough, near Penryn, where Falmouth...
"The governing body have been advised that there did not appear to be any truth in the allegation." This was how governors at Melton Mowbray College announced the establishment of an independent...
Proposals for a new Health Professions Council have drawn some strong and opposing views. Claire Sanders reports. A bitter response has greeted a long-awaited consultation document on a new Health...
Medical professionals are collaborating with computer scientists on a project that aims to give back the power of communication to severely incapacitated patients in intensive care units. Ian...
Monday. Ended the last century with chronic fatigue: 1999 saw the birth of my son Max, a move to a bigger house and the publication of my life of Lord Goodman. Began new century with flu when the...
Reassuring news for staff at Liverpool John Moores University, where rumours have been flying since vice-chancellor Peter Toyne announced his retirement: his replacement will not be Mike Fitz-gerald...