Clapped-out laboratory equipment in institutions is forcing multinational firms based in the UK to shift their university research to other countries, according to a report published yesterday. The...
England will win the European Football Championships. And the final will be watched by an audience of around 500 million people, writes Huw Richards. The odds are that the second of those statements...
Top African academics are hoping to raise cash for a research university for the continent in order to cut the brain drain and reliance on foreign staff, as well as providing a safe haven for...
There is nothing like a test to concentrate the mind, but what if you never fail? Alex Millmow looks at Australian policy Examinations. The very word arouses fear and rank uncertainty. The fear is...
Friday. Arrive Jan Smuts, Johannesburg at breakfast time to 70 degrees of sunshine, quickly blighted by the realisation I am short of one bag. Relieved to say that at least the suitcase carrying the...
The legality of dismissals of one in five of Hungary's academics and other higher education staff is escalating into a constitutional crisis after conflicting findings by the courts and the ombudsman...
The dean of the troubled Southampton Solent campus based in Athens, Veroni Papatzimou, has resigned. Her decision precedes a ballot of all staff working for Southampton Institute, which runs the...
Universities and colleges are facing a bill for millions of pounds following the removal of VAT exemption on the cost of staff recruitment adverts. City financial consultants estimate that some large...
Europe's first regional blueprint for technological development was unveiled in Wales this week by the principality's secretary of state William Hague. Wales is one of four European regions (the...
Aisling Irwin looks at the aftermath of the Ariane V explosion. Space scientists and plasma physicists were yesterday counting the cost of the exploded Cluster mission in terms of seriously damaged...
The thaw in the cold war has led to pioneering glaciology research in the Russian Arctic that aims to produce better predictions of the effects of global warming. The centre for glaciology at the...
Universities across Australia faced their worst collective disruption in memory last week as thousands of staff and students went on strike for 24 hours over the prospect of savage cuts in federal...
I write in response to Bryan Davies's recent letter (THES, May 31) responding to your comments on Labour's proposals for the "reform" of student maintenance. It is interesting that he objects to your...
"Nothing in this report points to any fundamental malaise in any of the sectors we have examined. But there is, and will continue to be, a tension between the management-driven and output-related...
The correct reaction to the controversy over potentially contaminated baby milk is over-reaction, such as the withdrawal of all relevant products from sale, a risk expert said this week, writes...