Fears are growing in the medical academic community about possible plans to hand over part of the Department of Health's research budget to the new NHS University, writes Anna Fazackerley. Bob Fryer...
Infidelity How do you measure up? Two views bad Did George Orwell attempt to quash dissent? Blair at 100 Jeffrey Mayers reviews two biographies of George Orwell Focus: Reference books, American...
Almost 50 students could claim compensation totalling about£1 million from Oxford Brookes University after a third intake of students confirmed that they had joined a mass complaint that their degree...
The British Academy has been accused of "old boys' favouritism" after awarding a prestigious £1 million research grant to one of its fellows and withholding a further £1 million that had originally...
The government's flagship student satisfaction survey could be delayed for at least two years after the project steering group raised serious concerns that academics' and universities' reputations...
The man charged with kick-starting the UK's knowledge economy by forcing universities to work more closely with business is set to surprise ministers by opting for a softly-softly approach. Richard...
Lecturers' union Natfhe is playing into the hands of extremist parties by refusing to teach their members, said Patrick Harrington, the former National Front official who won a landmark 1980s High...
Robert Mundell, professor of economics at Columbia University, is often credited with inventing the European single currency, although he sees himself as just "one of several godfathers". For over 40...
* Joan Chandler, sociologist and deputy head of the University of Plymouth Graduate School, has been chosen to serve as chair of the British Sociological Association. * Theo Viljoen, designated...
Leicester University students who are protesting over plans to restructure their department have joined forces with Birmingham University students who have been through a similar experience. Students...
Chess fans could find themselves out on the piece more often if they take up a boozy variant of the game, designed by an art student at Leeds University. Drinking Games is the brainchild of Susan...
A team of the world's top mathematicians is about to find out how good the UK is at the subject. The 13-strong group plans to descend on Britain in December as part of a project to assess British...
The Commons Science and Technology Committee was drawn into a public squabble with the Department of Trade and Industry last week over the committee's damning report on the Medical Research Council....
Universities may be acting illegally if they withhold exam results from students who owe them money, an education lawyer has warned after the Office of Fair Trading forced Kingston University to...
Many honours degree courses could be forcibly downgraded to foundation degree status if they failed to meet rigorous inspection demands under Liberal Democrat plans for higher education. Lib Dem...