A record number of institutions have submitted entries to the ߣߣÊÓƵ Awards, and now the countdown to the 2008 event begins in earnest.With more than 130 higher education institutions...
- With Britain feeling the pinch of an economic slowdown, now may not be the best time to talk about raising tuition fees. The Government has promised a review next year, but Conor Ryan, former...
DIUS to initiate an organisation review to learn from the budget crisis, Zoe Corbyn reports
MPs have accused the Government of failing to base its policies on evidence after its decision to cut funding to students studying for second degrees.A report from the House of Commons Innovation,...
Programme of investment in HR has not improved sector's effectiveness. Melanie Newman reports
Data provided by Thomson Scientific from its Essential Science Indicators, 1 January 1998–29 February 2008
Tara Brabazon on the cutting-edge centres that generated a new way of doing research
Since the introduction of the statutory dispute resolution procedures in 2004, employers have grappled with the question of when an employee complaint must be treated as a grievance, to comply with...
The v-c’s glorious IT dreams always fail in reality, laments Gloria Monday as she reaches for her pen and paper
In a shock interview with The Poppletonian, our long-serving Professor of Theology, Gordon Greenwich, has confessed that he is no longer able to believe in the existence of God.
Spoon-fed students won't fend for themselves at university, says Tim Birkhead
Scientists in popular culture are inevitably mad, bad and dangerously keen on bubbling vials of ghastly liquids. Should this bother us? Yes, John Gilbey cackles fiendishly
We can't allow rivalries to derail the effort to make research sustainable by getting funders to pay full economic costs
Frank Gould, the former vice-chancellor of the University of East London who saw the institution through both good times and bad, has died after a long battle with cancer.Professor Gould, who led the...
Cambridge rules the subject rankings but still loses ground to its rival. John Gill reports