European Union countries could face new benchmarks on staff numbers, spending and achievements in research, under proposals discussed in Brussels this week. Research ministers, meeting as The THES...
The board of the CRE (Association of European Universities) has agreed to ballot members on a merger with the Confederation of European Union Rectors Conferences. The decision was taken at the CRE's...
The College of Ripon and York St John has failed to quash a disability discrimination claim. When faced with allegations of discrimination from disabled lecturer Claire Hobbs, the college apparently...
Extending opportunity, maintaining quality and attacking new markets - Derby is answering its critics. Tony Tysome reports. Managers at Derby University are ready for the quality inspectors. In fact...
The future of Derby University's lucrative franchise operation in Israel - and indeed its international academic reputation - hang in the balance. By the end of next month, an audit of Derby's...
After months of wrangling, the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals has finally chosen itself a new and much funkier name. From now on it will be known as "Universities UK". One committee...
There was consternation at the University of Lincolnshire and Humberside this week when it looked as if culture secretary Chris Smith would miss a planned tour of its "extensive media and IT suites"...
The real Sally Brown stood up to be counted this week at a conference on innovative teaching in Stirling. Professor Brown, assistant principal of Stirling University and chair of the 2001 education...
Spare a thought for the parents of Imogen Hoyle, a second-year marine biology and coastal ecology student at Plymouth University, who will not be returning home to work in her local burger joint over...
Stephen Palmer, honorary professor of psychology at City University, has been awarded the annual counselling psychology award from the British Psychological Society, Division of Counselling...
Leslie Hannah, dean of City University's business school has been appointed chief executive of Aldridge Management College. The members of the new Statistics Commission are: Colette Bowe, head of...
It would take more than a wobbling bridge to knock Sir Anthony Caro from the position he holds as Britain's foremost living sculptor. A former assistant to Henry Moore and widely regarded as his...
September. Visit the set of Dog Days, a film based on one of my short stories from Flying Leap. It is a sort of absurdist fable set in post-apocalyptic suburbia. It is bizarre to find my words...
The International Astronomical Union has named an asteroid after the rector of Bologna University, Fabio Roversi Monaco. The IAU is the recognised authority for assigning names to celestial bodies....
The University of Kisangani, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, has turned into a refugee camp following confrontations between Ugandan and Rwandan troops fighting for control of the mineral-rich...