The Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to three astronomers for their discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe.Half of the prize money will go to Saul Perlmutter, a professor of...
The University of Wales has pulled degree accreditation from all courses except those designed and fully controlled by the institution.
The government has announced nearly ?200 million in new science capital spending which it hopes will cement the UK’s status as “home to the greatest scientists and engineers”.
Three scientists, including one who died just days ago, have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2011.
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
Up to 6,000 undergraduate places that are being auctioned off to low-cost institutions will go to further education colleges rather than universities, the Labour Party has claimed.
? Robust, transparent and sophisticated Phil Baty explains how in-depth consultation with the global academic community has produced the most exact and relevant world rankings yet devised It is, of...
The government has come in for fierce criticism from the universities of Cambridge and Oxford in strongly-worded submissions to the White Paper consultation.
The University of Wales, Newport, has responded to proposals for a radical contraction in the number of Welsh universities with plans for a new institution in the South East of the country.
Many students face a shortfall of over ?8,000 a year when state support is compared to the cost of living for the 2011-12 academic year, a new analysis suggests.
Plight of refugee academics compounded by Western 'inhospitality'. Matthew Reisz reports
Administrators favour funding applied subjects over 'pure' and 'soft' disciplines. David Matthews writes
NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH RESEARCHResearch Programme GrantsHealth Technology Assessment programme? Award winner: Mark Everard? Institution: Sheffield Children's Hospital? Value: ?766,966SABRE (...
The editor of a major new history of medicine brings two disciplines' perspectives to bear. Matthew Reisz reports
ItalySeismology shaken by trialThe decision to charge a number of Italian seismologists with man-slaughter for failing to predict a deadly earthquake has provoked outrage from their academic peers. A...