The head of the new UK Universities Sport plans to boost participation and encourage outreach work. Ed Smith, head of the newly created UK Universities Sport, has a clear idea about how higher...
Former BBC home and legal affairs correspondent Jon Silverman has joined Bedfordshire University as professor of media and criminal justice. Also joining Bedfordshire is Andrew Slade , formerly of...
Melanie Newman reports from the Battle of Ideas on the alleged 'castration' of academic freedom. Academics came under attack for failing to defend their right to freedom of speech and academic...
A Conservative government would hold universities to account by publishing student dropout rates, staff contact hours and class sizes instead of relying on "clumsy monitoring institutions" such as...
Universities lay down provisos for approval of potential A-level replacement. Rebecca Attwood reports. Universities across the sector this week began to signal their intention to accept the...
Urgent work is needed to improve collaboration between UK and African academics, the British Academy has warned. A study by the Association of Commonwealth Universities for the British Academy said...
A third of graduates believe they are overqualified for the job they are in, according to research from Kent University. The report is based on interviews with 7,800 workers, including graduates who...
Graduates will be paying about half their salaries to the Government within five years of their leaving university, according to a report by the free-market think-tank Reform on the financial burden...
Paisley University's Ayr campus and Glasgow School of Art are to receive extra funding for building projects as part of a £100 million capital spending package for universities and colleges announced...
Unison members at Nottingham Trent University are being balloted on industrial action over a new redundancy policy. The public service union claims the new policy will have a detrimental effect on a...
A senior professor at Durham University has been suspended and will now face disciplinary action after an investigation into allegations of plagiarism, writes Tariq Tahir. As The Times Higher...
The UK's seven research councils this week opened a bureau in China, signalling a growing desire to collaborate with the emerging economy, writes Zoë Corbyn. The Beijing office, the councils' first...
Online, those academics left out of the research assessment tell of pain, politics and bias, writes Zoë Corbyn. Ben Anderson was excluded from the research assessment exercise because neither his...
Researchers at Bournemouth University's prestigious National Centre for Computer Animation (NCCA) are angry at plans by the university to enter them into the research assessment exercise and then axe...
An American professor has revealed that a UK university has been paying him around £900 a month for the past six months simply so it could have the option of including his research in the 2008...