Lucy Powell has been appointed education secretary in Andy Burnham’s government as Downing Street confirms the end of a standalone science department in Whitehall. Powell, who h ...

Patrick Vallance has resigned as science minister amid rumours that his department will be disbanded by Andy Burnham as he becomes prime minister. A former UCL medical school dean ...

Staff working at the universities of Kent and Greenwich say they “still have hundreds of questions” as the official merger ...

Australia’s “unfair” tuition fee regime can be fixed without putting pressure on government coffers or inflicting politically unpalatable price hikes on future nurses and te ...

The third objection is that I have fundamentally misunderstood the nature and purpose of a doctorate. Really? For ages, there have been calls to reform the whole PhD process to be more “fit for ...