Javid: foreign staff can strike without risking right to remain
Home secretary offers clarity in wake of UK university pensions walkout

Home secretary offers clarity in wake of UK university pensions walkout

Book of the week: Donald MacRaild on the parallels and differences between two would-be independent states
The article “Mr Chips with everything?” (Features, 5 July) explored the relationship between research and teaching. When I was invited for an interview for an undergraduate place at University...

‘Productivity boom’ shows researchers are not the problem, universities say

Analysis of THE data finds high publication output and reputation negatively correlated with staff gender balance

Call to rebalance funding away from sciences and towards social sciences

With about one-third of Earth’s 7 billion inhabitants on a social network, it is an inevitable part of scholars’ lives. While many academics find Twitter and Facebook useful means of disseminating...

The public sector has not expanded quickly enough to meet the demand for college degrees in India

Rule changes could lead to ‘mis-selling’ of qualifications that are not full degrees, higher education institutions warn

Trends analysis shows end of ‘US hegemony’ in research may not be far off

The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media

Latest data for June deadline applications show a worsening of figures compared with January statistics

As universities prepare for A-level results day next month, Liz Carlile explains how to get clearing right

Learning outcomes are very well intentioned, but their use discourages students from thinking outside the tick box, says Robert Nelson