Formal status as a designated higher education institute, financed by the Scottish Funding Council, has been attained by the Scottish Agricultural College. The SAC was the last remaining "central...
A third British university has been granted a licence to work on human-animal hybrid embryos for research. The licence, granted to the University of Warwick by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology...
About 700 personal letters by the American poet and short-story writer Laura (Riding) Jackson have been donated to Nottingham Trent University. The donation was made by a research fellow at the...
A £1.6 million project to explore, conserve and catalogue more than 600 feet of material relating to the steel industry in the Teesside area, between the University of Teesside and Teesside Archives...
A new map of the North East of England reveals a host of hitherto unrecorded boundaries that will variously be hailed as "ace", "champion", "choz", "cushty", "daza" or "mint". Michael Pearce of the...
A Scottish university is pressing ahead with plans that the University and College Union Scotland fears could undermine academics' employment rights. The University of Stirling court has agreed to...
Two papers from Queen's University Belfast have been declared "current classics" by Thomson Scientific, which says that they are among the most referenced in the world by geoscientists. Twenty-five...
Predicting the spread of the mountain pine beetle, currently devastating the lodgepole pine forests of British Columbia, is like watching party guests, according to an ecology expert. Javier Gamarra...
Students at King's College London will don "designer" dress at their graduation ceremonies this summer after fashion designer Vivienne Westwood was recruited to design the college's academic attire....
The prospect of sought-after jobs in the UK will create an influx of students, says John Gill
The UK should look to the student tuition fee system in Australia as it decides whether the level of fees currently charged should be increased, Australia's new Minister for Education and Deputy...
Louisiana academics oppose Bill that could allow teaching of 'intelligent design'. John Gill reports
CanadaPer-head funding sees major fallUniversities in Canada are receiving thousands of dollars less per student than they used to, a report has found. Last year, state funding amounted to about C$15...
Survey of sector's clerical employees highlights low pay and lack of respect, writes Melanie Newman
Almost three quarters of academic and academic-related higher education staff find their job stressful, according to a survey of 14,250 University and College Union members.Some 49 per cent of...