University researchers are likely to come under fire this month for wasting public money in a report by the public spending watchdog. The National Audit Office is expected to warn that researchers...
The Labour Party risks electoral disaster in next week's European Parliament elections, signalling trouble for the next general election, according to academics at the London School of Economics....
Universities need to focus on the future instead of just funding if they are to keep in touch with the business world, the National Advisory Committee for Creative and Cultural Education reported...
Heather Rabbatts, chief executive of Lambeth Council; Michael Green, chairman of Carlton; and Richard Chartres, Bishop of London, have received honorary degrees from City University. Lord Bagri,...
Umberto Eco, Italy's favourite intellectual, has been taken to task in the media over an article he wrote in Corriere Della Sera on biotechnology patents. Gilberto Corbellini, a distinguished writer...
Universities' obsession with safety is ridiculous and time-wasting, argues John Adams What do Routemaster buses, the Serpentine swimming club and university field trips have in common? They are all...
Double-blind refereeing should eliminate discrimination of most kinds. Other walks of life are not as fortunate. Andrew Oswald Professor of economics University of Warwick
Last week in The THES... David Robertson asked how governance can be better regulated. Ron Hill Director of Corporate Affairs and Clerk to the Calderdale Colleges Corporation Halifax The views...
THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH BOARD (AHRB) www.ahrb.ac.uk The AHRB has launched a scheme to support research in the creative and performing arts. In addition to expanding research activity in...
American scientists are opposing a law that forces openness in federally funded research. Ayala Ochert reports Scientists in the United States are up in arms over an obscure piece of legislation...
Think of an engineer and what springs to mind? A graduate doing a white-collar job or the person who repairs dead vacuum cleaners? Most of the primary and secondary teachers questioned by researchers...
A lightweight electricity generator developed by Imperial College engineers is set torevolutionise industry. Kam Patel reports A company formed on the back of revolutionary lightweight electricity...
Welsh centres of expertise are linking research innovators with businesses. Iola Smith reports on an initiative that is already attracting interest from abroad Europe lags behind the US and Japan in...
A Swansea success is Osprey Metals. It began 25 years ago when three of the university'smetallurgy students came up with anew way of forming metal. They found that by atomising molten metal into a...
The UK research councils are no longer respected by their customers, a leading medical researcher and former head of the Wellcome Trust told the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee this...