The European Social Fund has invested more than £400,000 in The Robert Gordon University to help it to provide professional training for small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) in Aberdeenshire. The...
This Mozambican voter was photographed by a British lecturer who was in the country last month to help monitor elections.Andrew Russell, senior lecturer in politics at the University of Manchester,...
If there was ever any doubt that world university rankings have become a serious matter for the higher education community, one had only to glance around at the International Conference on World-...
A new book aims to engage with genuine, rather than far-fetched, advances. Matthew Reisz reports
Paul Thompson's first priority as the head of the Royal College of Art will be to ensure a smooth move to a new campus
Roger Kain, deputy vice-chancellor for research and knowledge transfer at the University of Exeter, has been named dean and chief executive at the University of London's School of Advanced Study....
When Julie Flowers and Rosalind Howell put on a piece of "live art" called Grill ... A Piece of Toast at a National Review of Live Art event at Nottingham Trent University in 1994, they used this...
£4.4m ESRC study of subjective wellbeing labelled 'disgraceful' and 'spooky'. Melanie Newman writes
Institutions marketed like a novelty band will not stand out, conference hears. John Morgan reports
United StatesSpeak out, professorAmerican academics are being urged to speak out to protect their freedom of speech amid fears over the potential impact of a Supreme Court ruling. The American...
Universities must hold nerve despite protests, says head of grande école. John Morgan reports
ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCILFunding of nearly £3 million has been provided to eight projects as part of the AHRC's Religion and Society research programme. Four applicants have also been...
This is the best way to maintain standards while at the same time serving public benefit, argues Aldwyn Cooper
Keats, the upstart who overcame all the odds to join the pantheon of literary greats, is an inspiration to Robert Mighall
An American academic has stirred up controversy after posting adverts around Duke University asking female students to take part in a "sexually explicit" study. Dan Ariely, a behavioural economist,...