Northern Ireland's two universities have stressed their commitment to equal opportunities despite uncertainty as to whether they will fall under new equality legislation in the province, writes Olga...
Whistleblowing academic Andrew Colman has finally been awarded a professorship by Leicester University following THES reports on his long-running and acrimonious dispute with the university over its...
The London School of Economics was found guilty by an employment tribunal this week of sexual discrimination against a female lecturer. The tribunal found unanimously that Helen Mercer, a lecturer in...
Plans to let students complete the first two years of a medical degree through part-time distance learning before entering the third year of medical school have taken a step forward, writes Alison...
The Department of Health and the ÌÇÐÄVlog Funding Council for England have formed a strategic alliance on research and development for health and social care. Sir John Pattison, director of...
Cash paid to colleges for students' exam results should be cut, or even scrapped, college leaders have recommended. They fear that output-based funding rewards colleges that recruit only those...
September Francis Maude, shadow chancellor, invites me to take part in a policy group he is setting up to look again at the Tory policy of opposition to Bank of England independence. I accept. Meet...
If ever proof were needed of the business world's low opinion of academics' practical skills, it comes in a recent missive from headhunters seeking the government's new chief scientific adviser. In...
Anil Seale, head of the Cambridge Overseas Trust, did his bit for elitism on a visit to Ankara this week. Speaking as Cambridge University prepared to sign an agreement for a scholarship scheme for...
Nelson Mandela's visit to the London School of Economics last week was hailed by members of the audience as a deeply moving and uplifting experience. The former South African president, 81, wowed...
Hot on the heels of the National Teaching Fellowships, Sheffield University's student newspaper is launching the Golden Plug Awards. Academics at Sheffield must work out the cost of personal...
Maxwell Irvine arrived as vice-chancellor of Birmingham University bemoaning the lack of regional collaboration between institutions in the West Midlands. With rumours of a merger between Birmingham...
Jim Scrimshaw, chair of the Association of Colleges, is to step down because of work demands. His successor will be appointed in May. John Dickinson, principal of King Alfred's College, Winchester,...
Alexandra Walsham, lecturer at the University of Exeter, has received the Pounds 1,000 Longman-History Today Book of the Year Prize 2000 for Providence in Early Modern England, published by Oxford...
India's right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party government is accused by its critics of rewriting history and of trying to take control of state-funded academic institutions to push through a "jingoistic"...