Department of Health plans to concentrate research in five elite hospitals and clinical academies could "destabilise" some medical schools, deans warned this week. A DH consultation document, which...
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To do research or not to do research: that is the question facing the country's six newest universities. Chester University, Canterbury Christ Church University, Liverpool Hope University,...
Questions 1. What is the main advantage of gaining the university title? 2. What image do you hope to build, and how will your logo reflect this? 3. How do you expect your institution to have...
The Olympic "invisibles" - the men and women supplying the vital support services for the 2012 games in London - will be the subject of research at a new centre at Loughborough University....
RAE bias and uncertain prospects are often a fellow's lot, says Anthea Lipsett Research fellows - long seen as the future stars of academe with enviable positions - are often poorly treated by...
Universities in the South East are less likely to generate spin-off companies - but the ones they create are more likely to survive than those elsewhere. A report on the impact of higher education on...
Oxford and Cambridge universities appear to be totally uninterested in joint projects with industry to support PhD students, it was claimed this week. The comments came as research revealed that the...
Durham University last month sold some 900 deer-related paintings, books and artefacts from its Whitehead Collection to raise money to preserve the archive's core books and papers and to fund work by...
Southampton University has emerged as the UK's third biggest earner of research grants in the engineering and physical sciences, ahead of Oxford University. Cambridge University, Imperial College...
'Light touch' assessment deemed to be too heavy a burden for universities Lecturers will be rejoicing this week after quality watchdogs vowed to cut more red tape by abandoning routine subject-level...
Southampton University is to appeal against a ruling that took ownership of a crucial patent away from one of its most promising spin-off companies. In a move that a leading intellectual property...
Scotland's university principals show no sign of calling for top-up fees north of the border despite some fears that increased English fees could bolster budgets there and eventually threaten...
Are Scotland's emerging cross-university groupings of researchers a revival of the Braveheart spirit? Roger McClure, chief executive of the Scottish ÌÇÐÄVlog Funding Council, was only half-...
Plans announced by Scottish ministers to raise general fee levels for students in Scotland and charge an extra levy for medical courses have prompted accusations that they are taking the first steps...