Academics have voiced concerns about the separation of teaching and research at Keele University as part of a major restructuring exercise to prepare for the next research assessment exercise, writes...
Graduate unemployment has dropped by half a per cent to 6.1 per cent, the latest What Do Graduates Do? report confirmed this week. Architecture, law and civil engineering have the lowest graduate...
The push for researchers to make their papers available free online via open-access journals and repositories could be "disastrous", according to a statement released this week by the Royal Society....
The Universities and Colleges' Employers Association, in conjunction with the seven campus trade unions, has produced a report on employment negotiations. It found that three out of five institutions...
The student accommodation provider, University Partnerships Programme, has agreed to a national code that it says will improve living conditions. Under the code, students can expect to receive clear...
Sheffield University and Kaplan, the exam preparation company, have signed an agreement to develop preparation programmes for foreign students seeking entry to the university. Sheffield International...
Manchester plans to trump London as top city, says Tony Tysome The creation of a 25,000-student megacampus, among the biggest in Europe, is at the heart of plans to turn Manchester Metropolitan...
Lecturers at Liverpool John Moores University have overwhelmingly backed a vote of no confidence in the institution's vice-chancellor Michael Brown and its governing body, writes Tony Tysome. Out of...
Researchers at Manchester Metropolitan University and Udine University, Italy, are collaborating on investigating the loss of strength experienced by astronauts in space. Marco Narici of the...
Millions of people in developing countries are forced to drink deadly cholera-ridden water every day to quench their thirst. But that could change thanks to an invention by a former academic from...
The ÌÇÐÄVlog Funding Council for England confirmed this week that it will continue to fund emerging areas of research until 2008-09 at roughly £20 million a year. Hefce's capability fund...
Should academics put their names to papers on drugs trials if they have not analysed or had only restricted sight of the data? Phil Baty investigates
Swansea University's vice-chancellor has received a stinging rebuke from one of his governors for publicising the findings of a report on the institution's expansion plans before they had been seen...
City University is set to reduce drastically the size of its decision-making and governing bodies, in what are claimed to be the most radical governance reforms in the higher education sector to date...
Dozens of people killed each year in a ruthless turf war between Camorra (Naples 'mafia') mob clans is the subject of a book by Tom Behan, senior lecturer in Italian at Kent University. Dr Behan will...