Sally Hunt has been re-elected as general secretary of the University and College Union after defeating her only opponent Mark Campbell by a margin of 6,835 votes and gaining 73 per cent of the...
The head of a higher education college criticised for her management style and handling of course cuts has been suspended from her full role, Times Higher Education understands.
The percentage increase in the number of managers in higher education in recent years is more than twice that for academics, an analysis of new figures has suggested. Data released by the Higher...
Some v-cs took fright when Les Ebdon stated his readiness to use the 'nuclear option' to enforce access agreements as head of Offa. What does that say about the state of the sector? asks Martin...
David Willetts wants more of them, but how much is really known about the UK's private providers? John Morgan uncovers a melange of institutions in a diverse and diversifying sector unbound by caps...
Mary Warnock navigates the moral questions that come to bear on the having of children
Sketches of a street where Boz grew up - and a place that scarred him - captivate Valerie Sanders
Who was responsible for the First World War? That Germany was largely to blame has become the established view, but Sean McMeekin points his finger at a different culprit, Russia. His thesis is...
Jennifer Lena attempts to take on two of popular music's most regularly debated areas and get to the heart of the problems in previous scholarship. Given that academics working in different areas of...
Eva Aldea is intrigued by an account of our enduring fascination with barbarous images
William Monter's subject is female kings: a contradiction in terms, one might think. But as he points out, the word "queen", from the Anglo-Saxon cwén, in origin means a king's wife, not a female...
As its title indicates, this book is an attempt to unravel what it means to be human in the past, present and future. Its ambition is to provide "a comprehensive set of historical, philosophical and...
Head of universities group criticises self-interest of 'globalising' institutions. Phil Baty writes
V-c set to boost research strength and speak 'the right language' to students. Jack Grove reports
Society needs to look beyond the images of "cool", "unconventional" creative workers and find better ways for them, and for academics, to lead "liveable lives", a speaker at the British Academy...