The number of students taking up places on nursing degree courses has leapt 20 per cent this year, according to the latest UCAS figures. It follows the introduction of a new career and grading...
Michael Dexter, director of the Wellcome Trust, this week warned that the charity's recent failure to win planning permission for a Pounds 100 million expansion of its genome campus near Cambridge...
(Photograph) - Thirty unemployed young people who want to make a future in the music world have spent a week at Queen's University, Belfast, learning how to strike the right chord. The Soundlive...
What's in a name? All too often little more than puerile humour and unpronounceable in-jokes, according to a Canadian professor of geology, who has issued a plea for taxonomic sanity. William...
A giant electronic publishing site for life sciences research in the United States could undermine the interests of authors, British academics fear, writes Kam Patel. When mooted by the US National...
League tables of universities' teaching quality are to be scrapped under the new quality-assurance regime, it has emerged. Ministers and funding chiefs appear to have lost the battle to maintain the...
Glasgow University's antiplagiarism software, used to uncover cheating in a first-year class, was developed in response to pleas from aggrieved students. Malcolm Atkinson of Glasgow's computing...
(Photograph) - Susan Ward, director of Glasgow University's new Centre for Exercise Science and Medicine, puts a student through his paces. Professor Ward said the interdisciplinary centre, which...
College funding council chief executive David Melville "misled" Parliament during a select committee evidence session, the Public Accounts Committee said today. Professor Melville gave evidence on...
A magnetic resonance research centre is energising the economy of a bruised Manitoban city and bringing it to international notice A world-class research centre for magnetic resonance imaging has...
Each week this section will list funds available for academic researchers. Details should be submitted to research@thesis.co.uk NATURAL SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING RESEARCH COUNCIL OF CANADA www.nserc....
Q: I have quite a high proportion of students repeating one of my courses this year and would welcome some advice on keeping them motivated. * Simon Myerson, Motivational psychologist Insititute of...
Trade unions will be asked to state that "systematic institutional sexism and racism" exists in British higher education, when they meet at this month's annual Trades Union Congress. A motion...
HAMBURG When Germany finally passed a reform of its higher education framework law a year ago, many critics dismissed it as a "mini-reform". Rather than a blueprint for revolution in Germany's...
MELBOURNE When ߣߣÊÓƵn students enrol at university they are generally ignorant of the implications of their decision, according to researchers at the University of Melbourne. By and large,...