Flamboyant, arrogant vice-chancellors who are initially perceived as "heroic" or "visionary" may end up damaging their universities in the long term.A study by Malcolm Higgs, professor of human...
University places offered through clearing have filled in record time amid the "biggest ever" squeeze on university applications.Of the estimated 22,000 places in clearing this summer, about half -...
Executives' document criticises 'talking shops' and 'avoiding responsibility'. Zoë Corbyn reports
More than 300 staff at the University of Sheffield have volunteered to quit their jobs and are to leave the institution by the end of November.The university will save £13 million as a result of the...
Rebecca Attwood looks at the student bloopers that reduced their tutors to tears
A documentary about benefits makes Gary Day uncomfortable. Thank goodness for Timothy Spall
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Visitors to the Poppleton campus are reminded that tours of the Vice-Chancellor's house will take place every weekday afternoon at 2pm. Admission is £5.00 and ticket-holders are requested to stay...
Tim Birkhead dreams of time to work, free from day-to-day interruptions
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
Sara Schley first turned to knitting to fill time during a summer break from college, but it has since become an integral part of her life
Students no longer have to travel to get a Western degree as UK education centres are setting up overseas in a global market
Where I sit is getting awkward these days. I find myself caught in the middle of an increasingly acrimonious debate between faculty and administrators as financial pressures are creating a perfect...
Peter Dunnill, a leading biochemist who contributed to the national debate on tackling swine flu right up until the end of his life, has died.He was born in Harrow on 20 May 1938 and studied at...
The "conservative, fearful culture" that is "holding universities back" is not the creation of campus trade unions. Rather, it is due to the reluctance of university managements to address the long-...