(Photograph) - Dog-fancier: Wolverhampton University student Melanie Adkins with one of her works of art. Seven students and four members of staff of the university's school of art and design...
You just cannot keep vice chancellors out of the news. Following on from the excitement over the CVCP levy threat comes the furore over the report on arms sales to Iraq whose author Sir Richard Scott...
So much for the theory that our state church inspires less fervour than rival Christian sects. This week's Leicester University events listing outlines the Sunday activities of various groups as...
However, the event did prove the value of academic dress on formal occasions. The pillars in the museum crypt, a former workshop now reopened as the museum cafe, had been cleaned but not sealed, and...
Lord Jenkins, chancellor of the University of Oxford, was writing women out of history last week at the opening of the extension to the university's Ashmolean Museum. He described an earlier Duke of...
A clash of campaigns at Liverpool University has left student leaders with a tricky conundrum. The Student's Guild is backing a rent strike by nearly 200 students protesting at conditions in some...
An unwanted birthday present for Ken Edwards, vice chancellor of Leicester University, whose 62nd birthday on Monday was marked by a listing in The Guardian alleging that he is chairman of the...
Creators of artificial life, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, fed up with showing visitors round, have built a robot to do it for them. On the grounds that employees will just walk past...
What would you miss most if you left academia to become chief executive of a newly market-orientated but venerable British institution? David Rhind, head of the Ordnance Survey and previously...
What do learning German and sport have in common? Quite a lot, according to Trinity and All Saints Comenius Centre in Leeds, one of a network of 16 modern languages resource centres. Together with...
Ulster University sought to inject a renewed sense of urgency into its plans for a so called peaceline campus this week, as the peace process in Northern Ireland limped on amid the threat of further...
An academic link between a British and a Serbian university has been forged for the first time since war in the Balkans began, writes Milica Pesic. The Centre for the Study of Democracy at the...
Only one university has asked to give up some of its student numbers in response to an invitation to all institutions from the Higher Education Funding Council for England. In the light of severe...
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"Understanding the Peace Process in Ireland" is a seminar series kicking off next week at Salford University with some of the most important academics in the field alongside senior representatives of...