EC eyes mobility
The European Commission has urged member states' higher education institutions to boost student mobility independently of exch-ange schemes backed by Brussels. In a paper on key challenges facing...
The European Commission has urged member states' higher education institutions to boost student mobility independently of exch-ange schemes backed by Brussels. In a paper on key challenges facing...
Every week THESIS, The THES Internet Service, provides a guide to the news, features and reviews in the newspaper. Job advertisements, appear on THESIS on the Tuesday before publication Conscious...
The science budget is to be cut by well over Pounds 50 million in real terms in the next three years. This, combined with cuts in higher education funding generally, could seriously damage university...
The Golden Triangle has dominated the British Academy's newly-established fellowship scheme designed to support collaborative and interdisciplinary research. Half the 16 institutional fellowships...
Geneticists agree they have taken a risk by releasing a long genetic sequence, thought to contain a gene that can make people susceptible to breast cancer, onto the Internet. The scientists, from the...
Harvard University still holds a patent for any animal genetically engineered to develop cancer after an appeal against its patent broke up without conclusion last week. Some anti-patent campaigners...
The split between further and higher education trade unions continued to jeopardise hopes of a joint pay claim next year. In a stinging letter Association of University Teachers assistant general...
Salford University chiefs are salvaging a tarnished commercial image by raiding money reserved for academic expenses like personal computers and foreign conferences to save a once-profitable...
Julius Tomin ended a seven-day fast in Oxford on Monday with a bowl of chicken broth. "This was the best hunger strike of my life. Not eating for a week renewed my strength," he said. Czech dissident...
Universities would subsidise the cost of processing new privatised student loans under Government proposals, it emerged this week. Loan applications already cost higher education institutions Pounds...
The Private Finance Initiative is set to become the main capital funding mechanism for universities barely eight months after it was first introduced in the higher education sector. Universities have...
Eric Forth, the higher education minister, has asked university heads to produce a consultation paper on funding. The Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals will announce its plans to publish...
(Photograph) - Tender touch: the University of Sunderland sponsored an exhibition in London this term by Virginia Bodman, its senior lecturer in charge of painting, called "Strong Meat". Her images...
Heard at the back of the Labour front bench press conference last week, a journalist's stage whisper "Who's he?" accompanied by a gesture in the direction of Bryan Davies, further and higher...
Even the Yellow Pages has become involved in sniping. The entry "Boring" reads "See Civil Engineers".