Pensions expert and LSE deputy director Paul Johnson is heading for ߣߣÊÓƵ to hone his management skills Improving his family's quality of life was high on the list when Paul Johnson, deputy...
* Michael Osbaldeston , director of Cranfield School of Management, is the new chair of the Association of Business Schools. * Royal Northern College of Music has appointed: Dame Gillian Weir ,...
Managers say 'University of the West of Scotland' will improve competitiveness, reports Olga Wojtas Paisley has emerged as the latest university to seek a name change, joining a steady stream of...
The common room, academics' sanctuary from the clamour of ever more demanding students, is under threat, the University and College Union claimed this week, writes Phil Baty. The union spoke out as...
The views of 20 students could soon be enough to make or break the reputation of university departments and the academics who work in them under plans to reform the landmark National Student Survey....
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Applications for autumn courses at Oxford and Cambridge universities are up 4.3 per cent on last year, indicating a recovery after the introduction of top-up fees. Figures released by the...
SuperJANET, the information superhighway for academics, has been relaunched and offers users more computing power and vastly improved storage capacity. The relaunched network, SuperJANET 5, offers...
Poems on the Underground - founded in London 20 years ago by academic and writer Judith Chernaik - is offering five posters from its recent collections free to lecturers and librarians. For a free...
Scientists at Liverpool University have created a new chemical compound that could be developed into a drug treatment for Alzheimer's disease. Jerry Turnbull and Ed Yates, from the university's...
Sydney University has joined the Worldwide Universities Network, a group of 16 research institutions in Europe, North America and Asia. The network has established 500 research mobility awards for...
Middlesex University's Dubai campus celebrated its first graduation ceremony this week. Eight students attended the ceremony and dinner at the Madinat Jumeirah Conference Centre in Dubai on Tuesday.
We regret that the institutions on which data was gathered for the 2006 World University Rankings did not include the University of East Anglia or the University of Essex. They will be included in...
Oxford's £2m deal with Prince Sultan University has raised fears of inappropriate collaboration. Phil Baty reports. Oxford University has been criticised for entering into an unprecedented academic...
Demonstrations, occupations and boycotts were once rites of passage for undergraduates, but research suggests that tuition fees are helping to kill off a grand tradition of student radicalism,...