One of the fathers of HTML joins UWE to help train the web's next generation of developers and torch-bearers It is hard to imagine life without the internet, but there was a time when it was the...
A healthy debate Mary Warnock considers the ethical case for ever-improving medical interventions that may ultimately let the wealthy few live for ever PLUS In the dock: why universities are still...
A consortium of US universities has taken a major step towards the mass digitisation of its book collections. In a move that offers a non-profit alternative to commercial digitisation schemes offered...
President Bush has signed a bill to put an extra £5.7 billion into financial help for poor students. The College Cost Reduction and Access Act of 2007 will put the money into Pell grants, which are...
A US politician has put forward a bill proposing that a prestigious university be denied state funds because it hosted a talk by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Republican Duncan Hunter said...
Claremont McKenna College in the US has been given a £100 million donation, among the biggest ever received by a university. The gift was made by alumnus Robert Day and will create a scholarship...
Mammoths may have pointed researchers to the latest weapon in crime detection. An international team of scientists who have retrieved large amounts of DNA from prehistoric mammoths say the technique...
More than 20 Australian universities will get a share of a £42 million government fund to reward good performance. The Learning and Teaching Performance Fund is split between science, computing,...
Researchers at a US university are educating people who fall for internet banking scams by taking a leaf out of the fraudsters' book. A team at Carnegie Mellon University sent an e-mail to people who...
Australian researchers have found a way to reverse diabetes in rats, which could point to a cure for the disease in humans. The team at Sydney University of Technology put insulin-producing genes...
Breaking news from Bradford University: a message posted on the front page of the university's internal staff website - under "Latest news" - reveals that the marketing department has lost a...
It is reassuring to see students knuckling down to serious study at the start of a new academic year. The Press Association reports this week that students from Bath University have beaten the world...
In a marketing-obsessed era of rebranding, changing the name of your company, institution or even trade union is all the rage. It has, however, not been without controversy, as the geniuses who...
Peer reviewers will consider 'economic impact' in research councils' funding decisions. Zoe Corbyn reports. Academics face a change in the way their applications for research funding will be judged...
Every research paper published by every academic in each university department will be graded for quality under the system planned to replace the research assessment exercise, The Times Higher has...