The vice-chancellor of Cambridge University has called for funding for UK postgraduates to be improved as "a matter of urgency". In her annual address at the start of the new academic year, Alison...
King's College London is clear that its remarkable success in getting its PhD students to complete their doctorates in good time is down to two things: the quality of the students it accepts and the...
Asian and black students on full-time PhD programmes are 10 per cent less likely to complete their doctorates in ten years than white students, according to a separate report on overall entry and...
Cumbria University is to set up a campus in Workington, West Cumbria, thanks to a £10 million donation from the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority. The authority has agreed to support the development...
A consortium of the Medical Research Council, the Wellcome Trust, Cancer Research UK and University College London has made it to the final round of bidding to secure a site behind the British...
Work on a new book depository for Oxford University's main research library, the Bodleian, is due to start imminently after the project was approved last week. The depository, at Osney Mead near the...
Colin Riordan took over as the vice-chancellor of Essex University on October 1. He replaced Sir Ivor Crewe, who has retired after 12 years. Professor Riordan was formerly pro vice-chancellor at...
In a news item last week ("Protests hamper animal test cuts"), we referred to the science minister as Malcolm Wicks. Mr Wicks was science minister from November 2006 to June 2007, when he was...
PROFILE : JOE WILSON COURSE LEADER, POPULAR MUSIC, GLOUCESTERSHIRE UNIVERSITY Leaving a party for pop star Janet Jackson in the US, Joe Wilson recalls sharing a lift with members of the hip-hop act...
Nicola Liscutin, a lecturer in Japanese studies, is in no doubt as to why the subject is one of the fastest growing in the UK: it is the lure of "cool Japan". Today's students have grown up on...
Two years on from the New Orleans hurricane, Jon Marcus reports on a higher education sector still in turmoil The biggest drama at Tulane University in New Orleans during its first few weeks of term...
"Universities are requiring academics to abandon their own offices for seats in new open-plan spaces" - The Times Higher , September 28 From: The Large Well-Appointed Office of the Head of Corporate...
Disagreement is one the greatest sources of pleasure available to intellectuals. If I find someone agrees with me, I think it's time to change my mind. Academics' lust to ban speakers because they...
Do universities provide a public service? The answer is unquestionably "yes". An advanced society needs trained people in increasing numbers, and only a university can produce them. It needs the kind...
Having been both an open-plan office inhabitant and a location-independent, flexibly working "road warrior", I can report that in the corporate world both types of environment can and do work - for...