Source: Higher Education Statistics AgencyAcademics whose age is unknown are not pictured on graph. Figures are from top of candle rather than top of flame.Over the past eight years, the profile of...
Affirmative action judgment could have repercussions across US. Chris Parr reports
The number of people applying to university has risen by 3.5 per cent, but has failed to bounce back to pre-£9,000 tuition fee levels, new figures show.
RCUK has announced it will not enforce its stated embargo periods for green open access during the first five years of its new open-access policy.
The government is being urged not to implement immigration proposals that it is claimed could have a damaging effect on UK science, engineering and wider academia.
White applicants are three times more likely to get a professorial post than black and minority ethnic ones, a new report suggests.
Academics at the University of Birmingham will be balloted over strike action in protest at what a union has described as the institution’s “campaign of forced redundancies and aggressive management...
Twelve “outstanding” university departments are set to receive Regius professorships to mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee last year, the Cabinet Office has announced.
Projects focussing on graphene and research into the human brain have won what the European Commission has called “the largest research excellence award in history”.
A new report from the American Historical Association provides fresh evidence of the impact of marital status and gender on academic careers.
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Memory struggles with history in an annal of life in Auschwitz and afterwards, finds Robert Eaglestone
University leavers could have better graduate job prospects than their predecessors when they attempt to enter the world of work this summer, a survey has suggested.
Open-access publishingCommons inquiry to weigh FinchA second parliamentary inquiry into the UK’s open-access policy has been announced. The Commons Business, Innovation and Skills Committee announced...
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