Next week's conference of Commonwealth ministers of education in Edinburgh comes at a time of great challenges and stress in international relations. With its capacity for embracing, bridging and...
Britain's Nobel wins mask its fall as a scientific power - and only more cash can reverse that, says Peter Lampl It's been a great year for Britons as far as Nobel prizes are concerned. This is the...
Last weekend, BBC1's Panorama staged its own University Challenge with two teams battling it out over top-up fees. Interestingly, the schools representative on the pro top-up fees team happened to be...
1998 A colleague who is editing a series suggests I write a book on student support. I am flattered but intimidated. "Of the making of many books there is no end," said that gloomy old homilist...
Plant science in the UK is under threat and researchers are being driven abroad, says Mark Tester, who is off to more fertile ground Oversimplification in the debate on genetically modified crops has...
Collective national bargaining by university unions is essential, says Chris Kaufman As a member of the Bett committee and a frequent visitor to university campuses across the UK on behalf of the...
Growing mental health problems among students are "a matter of considerable concern" and they warrant dedicated student mental-health services in some areas, according to a report from the Royal...
Edinburgh University has developed a novel addition to word-processing style checkers - software that lets you choose the personality you want to project. A team from Edinburgh's School of...
Student leaders in Northern Ireland have launched a campaign urging political parties to pledge to abolish student fees and reject top-up fees in the run-up to the Northern Ireland assembly elections...
The Association of University Teachers Scotland has accused Aberdeen University of "rushing unnecessarily" to shed staff in a £1 million restructuring scheme, writes Olga Wojtas. The university has...
Guy's, King's and St Thomas' Medical School in London, the largest in the UK, has been trying different mentoring schemes to link up with schoolchildren from London state schools for the past three...
The struggle to widen participation in university medicine and healthcare courses was given a boost this week with the announcement of £3 million additional funding from the Department of Health and...
A trade union activist at Liverpool John Moores University was subjected to a series of false allegations of dishonesty and misconduct by her colleagues, the vice-chancellor has ruled. In one...
The University of Central Lancashire is hoping to take over Northumbria University's campus in Carlisle. Uclan said the takeover would take place next August if the details were successfully worked...
Are the English in Scotland the "auld enemy" or "new Scots"? Conflicting views are set to emerge at a symposium next month organised by the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the British Academy and...