Young adults lack support
A key group of young people is being largely ignored as the government reshapes education and training, according to a study. Challenges faced by those aged 19 to 25 are at least as great as those of...
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Ban aimed at toxins focuses on 'wrong targets'
Proposals to ban chemicals that could cause birth defects and reproductive damage to animals may be based on inadequate science, a British professor will tell members of the European Parliament on...
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Scottish research 'must go it alone'
Scotland must go it alone on research funding in the wake of the Roberts report if it does not want to see its research base decimated, a university principal has warned. Bernard King of the...
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Whistleblowers: Journalism staff slated lowering of standards
More than half the former teaching staff at Liverpool John Moores University's journalism department were critical of "a general eagerness to avoid failing any student" when they worked there. In...
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Universities' finances in 'fragile' state, says HSBC
Many UK universities are undercapitalised and near the limit of their ability to borrow, say economists at HSBC bank. Universities are threatened by the planned expansion of further education...
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Troubled find relief in music
A social anthropologist at Queen's University, Belfast, has found that musical memories can help people who have suffered traumatic loss in Northern Ireland's Troubles. Volunteers in Omagh,...
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Why I believe that all UK research output should be online
Stevan Harnad Professor of cognitive science Department of electronics and computer science Southampton University. Unlike journalists or book authors, researchers receive no royalties or fees for...
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UK menu, local dish
By destroying the balance in pay bargaining, Imperial College is freeloading, argues Tom Wilson If you care about the future of our higher education system, you should care about Imperial College...
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If we build it, they will come
The UK must grab its chance to become home of a neutrino factory, argues Ken Long What is a neutrino? An academic question, perhaps, but one that bears on some of the most fundamental questions in...
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Fresh start for female engineers
The University of Glamorgan gave Maria James (pictured) the chance to follow a career she had dreamt of since childhood, writes Tim Greenhalgh. Ms James, 19, from Merthyr Tydfil, said: "I always...
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Plea for Scots centre
Scotland's living standards are set to plummet without government action to tackle the problem of an ageing population, a Stirling University economist has warned. Robert Wright, a leading member of...
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US students feel the pull of polls after years of apathy
US university students seem increasingly inclined to vote, reversing years of apathy, according to a Harvard University study. And there are so many of them that they could influence the outcome of...
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Don's diary: pushing poland into a europe sans frontieres
Thursday Victory in Europe day and high jinks in Edinburgh yesterday when our new MSPs were sworn in, many taking the oath of allegiance to the Crown under protest. Even the outgoing speaker, Sir...
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Access policy suffered 'unfair' criticism
Bristol and Edinburgh universities have been "unfairly pilloried" for trying to create fairer admissions systems, according to a leading higher education manager. Bill Stevely, convenor of...
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Cambridge ups state-school offers
Cambridge University has made more offers to state-school pupils this year compared with last year, in contrast to Oxford University, writes Caroline Davis. Susan Stobbs, Cambridge's director for...