David Bailey's East End
From the swinging Sixties of Shrimpton and the Krays to the 2012 Games, David Bailey’s eye captures ever-mutable London

From the swinging Sixties of Shrimpton and the Krays to the 2012 Games, David Bailey’s eye captures ever-mutable London

The AHRC's knowledge-transfer quartet wants to highlight impact of research. Paul Jump reports
With immigration and university standards hot issues, any impropriety involving recruiters abroad could tar the sector
Imagine this: a miniature orchestra made of mice skeletons playing a "rhapsody in death". Tiny claws hold minute instruments in front of minuscule music stands, while a petite conductor waves an...
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• The roll call of intellectual heavyweights pronouncing on the future of higher education from Robbins to Dearing now boasts a new name: Titchmarsh. In a 30 June interview with The Daily Telegraph,...

Overtaking the Joneses - Scots triumph in Celtic comparison

Felipe Fernández-Armesto urges students to take on tutors in a war of ideas

In 1848, the Royal Polytechnic Institution on London's Regent Street installed a 1,000-seat theatre, purpose-built for "optical exhibitions" such as magic lantern shows. It was here that Charles...

THE investigation shows almost £60m spent on agents’ commissions. David Matthews reports

As the findings of the final research assessment exercise are released, Times Higher Education has devised tables of excellence to rank institutions according to their subject successes and their...

Queen Mary makes Fanis Missirlis, persistent thorn in management’s side, redundant

The discovery of a particle with all the hallmarks of the long-sought Higgs boson is a “breakthrough in world science”, universities and science minister David Willetts said today.
The average starting salary in graduate-level jobs has increased by 6 per cent to £26,500 a year, according to a survey by the Association of Graduate Recruiters.