Withdrawing funding from courses that do not meet government policy objectives would be "dangerous" and could destabilise institutions, universities have warned.The Higher Education Funding Council...
David Willetts, the Universities and science minister, and Vince Cable, the business secretary, are likely to face their first public grilling by MPs over their plans for the higher education sector...
The president of Harvard University has warned that harsh austerity measures imposed in response to the global recession are putting the future of higher education in peril.In a lecture at the Royal...
Axeing of palaeography post to be followed by creation of new role in 2012. John Morgan writes
Proposals that were feared would give funding chiefs the power to oust vice-chancellors from office have been redrafted following strong opposition from the academy.The Higher Education Funding...
Academics' interaction is key to quality, but funding need not be limited to elites. Paul Jump reports
An economist's research into the Nazi regime's dismissals of Jewish mathematics professors in the 1930s has led him to conclude that in PhD supervision, big is beautiful.Between 1933 and 1934, about...
Conference debates how best to help early career researchers to thrive. Paul Jump reports
The average number of authors on scientific papers has increased by more than 50 per cent in the past 20 years, new figures show.The statistics, produced by Thomson Reuters, show that the papers...
'Obsession' will leave top social science faculties bereft of UK students, writes Simon Baker
A research project aims to help academics understand the differences in educational cultures that can throw up barriers when teaching international students.Teaching International Students includes a...
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England's apologetic performance on the pitch could just be in keeping with our history, says Gary Day
"Another major breakthrough going forward." That was the enthusiastic reaction of Jamie Targett, our Director of Corporate Affairs, to the declaration from David Sweeney, director of research,...
Education is one of the capital's great success stories, says Malcolm Gillies