Cambridge University dons are up in arms over the university's outdated professorial promotions system, condemning it as "humiliating", riven by "favouritism" and tarnished by "skulduggery". Senior...
Any vice chancellors tempted to gamble their way out of financial problems should heed the findings of research at Southampton University, which shows why "going to the dogs" is such a bad idea....
A photospread in The Scotsman on distinctive dressers includes the flamboyant Edinburgh University historian Owen Dudley Edwards, who explains: "I'm wearing a deerstalker which I bought in Dublin;...
Standards at Ofsted, the Office for Standards in Education, have improved over the past seven days. This is after a low point, reported in last week's Antithesis, when Ofsted wrote to: Professor N. K...
Another year, another Forward Look, that tome of statistics and statements on Government policy on science, engineering and technology across all departments. This year, though, the cash-strapped...
Anyone travelling on the London Underground can hardly have failed to notice the extensive poster campaign conducted by the University of Westminster extolling the quality of their provision in...
Further education has already won high marks for subtlety from David Melville, future chief executive of the Further Education Funding Council for England. News of his appointment, he told the...
In the week of the Railtrack flotation there can really be only one alumnus to be proud of. No 50 in our series is the man who back in the 1960s began the process the Government is now bent on...
The Educational Institute of Scotland this week launched a campaign to combat bullying at work, which it believes may account for more than half of stress- related illnesses. It aims to agree anti-...
The popular image of modular courses as incoherent "pick 'n' mix" programmes is unfounded, a national survey has concluded. Most modular systems set students on pre-determined paths rather than...
Why is Jon Turney so sour about John Brockman and so scornful of his authors (É«ºÐÖ±²¥S, May 10)? Brockman's achievement is to have persuaded regular scientists to write for a general audience. That has...
The United Kingdom has notched up the lowest growth in expenditure on research and development over the past ten years among the Group of Seven leading industrialised nations, according to figures...
The ecology of tropical coastal zones is the subject of an unique joint between the University of Wales and Khulna University in Bangladesh. The British Council and the Overseas Development...
Drama research is taking its place on the European stage with academics locked in debate on its merits. A clutch of publications is set to appear, giving drama researchers a forum for argument on...
A Pounds 4 million agreement between Edinburgh University and a leading Japanese drug company may lead to better treatment for stroke victims and people suffering from neurodegenerative illnesses...