Part-time study decline ‘set to continue’, warns key report
The dramatic decline in part-time students will continue this year, according to a report that calls for an “urgent push” to promote such study.
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Pay is the front line in a fight over the future
The UCU’s action is about fairness, equality and defending public higher education, say Tom Hickey and John Holmwood
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Campus close-up: Brunel University
Broad-based restructure aims to encourage interdisciplinary research collaborations
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Construction sector announces conference to stimulate industry-led research
Brussels, 11 May 2004 The European Council for Construction Research, Development and Innovation (ECFREDI), currently coordinating the EU network E-CORE, is to organise a conference to showcase...
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World in brief - 20 February 2014
United StatesHarvard mistake hits 11,000A US university accidentally overtaxed thousands of its employees for four years in a payroll error. Owing to a mistake in the way it reported its employees’...
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News in brief
United StatesHarvard mistake hits 11,000A US university accidentally overtaxed thousands of its employees for four years in a payroll error. Owing to a mistake in the way it reported its employees’...
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China on the fast track
Beijing wants to supercharge its nation’s universities as it has its railroads, but might its ambitions falter for want of academic freedom and cultural change?
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Female Tommies: The Frontline Women of the First World War, by Elisabeth Shipton
Niamh Gallagher on the women who challenged the consensus of who could serve at the front
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Overseas student growth ‘not as high as government hopes’
The number of international students coming to UK universities will grow at a slower rate over the next 13 years than is hoped for by the government.
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ߣߣƵ's Books of 2014
The year’s best reads for work and pleasure, chosen by scholars and senior figures in the sector
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REF impact weighting should be 25 per cent, says Witty
Impact should be given a weighting of 25 per cent at the next research excellence framework, the author of a government-commissioned review has said
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Leading light sought to shepherd southern star
CEO and director of research will represent ‘world-class’ ߣߣƵn biomedical research centre. Plus the latest higher education jobs and appointments
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Beware ‘brain-based learning’
Enthusiasm for ‘neuroeducation’ risks blinding people to its potentially limited efficacy, argues Steven Rose
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The Quest for Prosperity: How Developing Economies Can Take Off
Howard Davies on an industrial strategy that could help the Third World catch up with the West
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A Lasting Legacy: The House and Collection of Victor Skipp
An exhibition built around the collection of a historian and art hoarder reveals his boundless capacity for seeing things, Alexander Massouras finds