University employers have accused the Association of University Teachers of refusing to "engage seriously" in pay talks for 2006-07 after the union declared an industrial dispute before the start of...
If you scowled into your scarf on your way to work in the cold this morning, remember, things could be far worse. Students at Sheffield Hallam University are being invited to the Mongolian...
Ideological match John Gray on Leszek Kolakowski and the links between the neocons and Marx John Sutherland visits UCL's Wilkins Library
KNIGHTS BACHELOR John Ball , Sedleian professor of natural philosophy, Oxford University. Ivor Crewe , DL, vice-chancellor, Essex University and lately president, Universities UK. Allen...
Academics at Lancaster University are to be given the freedom to pitch ideas for year-long research activities in a venture modelled on a famed US institute associated with Albert Einstein, John von...
Work in the laboratories and workshops of the UK's largest academic institution threatens to be disrupted as academic support and technical staff at Manchester University prepare for a strike ballot...
For Africans hoping to study here 30 years ago, it helped to be a deposed despot. Huw Richards on just-released National Archives papers for 1975 "There is always something new out of Africa,"...
Climate-change funding needs a rethink, a leading researcher tells Becky McCall One of Britain's pre-eminent climate change experts has attacked the research councils for a lack of understanding of...
The lure of consultancy could influence specialism, reports Jessica Shepherd Consultancy work is becoming so commonplace in academic life that it could be influencing subject specialisms adopted by...
Universities are earning record amounts of money from business through consultancy and selling other commercial services, according to the latest figures. Analysis of figures supplied by the Higher...
The number of permanently employed lecturers in maths, physics, chemistry and engineering is falling, raising fears of a workforce shortage in these areas. A report by Lifelong Learning UK shows that...
A new ethical code for scientists has been developed by the Council for Science and Technology. The code has been produced to remind scientists of their legal and ethical responsibilities. It also...
Winchester University has appointed Joy Carter as its vice-chancellor, to begin work in April. Professor Carter, pro vice-chancellor of Glamorgan University, will succeed Paul Light, who is retiring...
More than a quarter of students would vote Conservative if an immediate general election were called, according to a poll. The survey, carried out by Opinionpanel Research in the second week of...
The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council this week published its vision for the future direction of science in its sponsored institutes. The document Science and Innovation in BBSRC...