ESRC calls for skills strategy in workplace
Government policies on skills and innovation will not create an economy capable of competing effectively in the global markets, according to a new report. Robert Taylor, media fellow with the...
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The view from industry
Increased precision, good science and technical rigour are essential to risk-based decision-making. But by themselves they are not enough. People's values can dominate their feelings about a level of...
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The Dignity of Chartism, by Dorothy Thompson, edited by Stephen Roberts
Kathryn Gleadle on an admiring and useful tribute to the life and work of a leading social historian
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Cambridge v-c ‘would be concerned about increases in fees’
Stance of Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, who calls fee rise linked to TEF ‘contentious’, appears to contrast with that of Oxford counterpart
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Strikes loom as UCU urges rebuff
Union advocates rejection of pay offer and Prevent strategy implementation
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University and art collaborations ‘the new normal’
Will open doors between the academy and the arts create a golden age?
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Bedfordshire joins Glasgow in fossil fuel commitment
The University of Bedfordshire has become the second higher education institution in the UK to commit to not investing in the fossil fuel industry
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Engineering degrees still not appealing to women
Little change in uptake over past 10 years despite millions spent on initiatives to widen participation in STEM subjects
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Europe’s 200 best universities: who is at the top in 2016?
Ellie Bothwell examines strengths and weaknesses in different higher education systems across the Continent
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Industry moves to prevent accidents at work
Brussels, 08 Feb 2006 European industrial accidents cause an injury every eight seconds, and a death every two hours. These alarming statistics were called 'astonishing and unacceptable', by Janez...
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University of Bristol gets its graduates ‘career ready’
New vice-chancellor Hugh Brady hopes innovation programmes will spur graduates to become social and business entrepreneurs
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UKTI unit to lure investors with the right mix of risk
Student beds, government bonds and science parks in investment packages assembled by new UK innovation team
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University of London vice-chancellor heralds ‘HE innovator’
Sir Adrian Smith on what he feels is the institution’s undeserved reputation for fustiness
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AHRC needs new focus and funding to boost creative-industry research
Million+ highlights increasing economic value of sector to the UK. Rebecca Attwood reports
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Budget 2015: PhD loans up to £25K announced
George Osborne has announced that the government will offer PhD and research-based master’s students income-contingent loans of up to £25,000