Biting the complaint bullet
Dissatisfaction among PhD students is growing but there is help for institutions willing to learn how to deal with it. Zoe Corbyn reports
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Grant winners
NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH RESEARCHThe NIHR's Health Technology Assessment programme produces independent research information on the effectiveness, costs and broader impact of healthcare...
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Inspired by EU
Alastair Sim, Universities Scotland's new head, hopes his European experience will help safeguard his country's institutions
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Appointments
The University of Wales, Lampeter has named Medwin Hughes vice-chancellor, as part of plans to merge the institution with Trinity University College to create the University of Wales: Trinity Saint...
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Policy is bane of the able
Durham University's Chris Higgins and Anthony Forster question the wisdom of limits on the number of admissions
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Top research fronts for 2008
Data provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators, Research Fronts, 2003-2008
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The week in higher education
Ed Balls, like many MPs, is in hot water over his expenses claims. Alongside the schools secretary's controversial claim for two Remembrance Day wreaths is another disputed claim, this time for a...
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Students' campaigns take some ugly turns
Academics complain of 'bullying' tactics in battles over teaching quality. Melanie Newman writes
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UCL embraces open access with institution-wide mandate
University College London has become the latest British institution to introduce a mandatory open-access repository for its scholars' work in what is a growing international trend.The institution...
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Goethe's the guy v-c goes to for advice on reform
Expert on 18th-century German thinker to counsel Melbourne's leader. Hannah Fearn reports
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Words of wisdom
Paul Bishop, professor of German at the University of Glasgow, considers what Goethe's work can teach today's university leaders"It is not for nothing that the central figure of arguably Goethe's...
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'New wave' blurs divide between elite and others
A "new wave" of universities is emerging that is redefining higher education and consigning the old axis of elite and non-elite to history.
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'Think big' campaign splits geographers
Media-savvy explorers outflank academic members of Royal Geographical Society. Zoe Corbyn reports
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Institutions reassert higher calling as recession sours market values
Financial crisis offers chance to present Christian principles in education, Rebecca Attwood hears
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Questions of cost and usefulness dog e-learning
Many academics see e-learning as "expensive and time-consuming", a survey has found.About half of university staff polled believe that learning technologies are popular with students but only a small...