Uncertainty is the status quo for most early career researchers, for whom job security is generally a forlorn hope. But that will change for 50 postdoctoral researchers being sought by the University...
Manchester Metropolitan University has said that it will "take all means to defend itself" over allegations of low standards on an exam after appearing to agree with a student that the test was "very...
Academic and musician stresses the need for improvisation and fun. Matthew Reisz reports
Business engagementSpin-offs up by a quarterThe number of spin-off companies set up by universities rose by a quarter in 2009-10, according to the Higher Education Statistics Agency. The HE Business...
United StatesRhoades trails back to ArizonaThe highest-paid executive at the American Association of University Professors is to leave his post and return to his old job at the University of Arizona...
Devastating earthquake has not dimmed university spirit, says rector. Diana Garrisi reports
Sweeping reforms of French higher education were prompted in part by its performance in world university rankings, the country's higher education minister has suggested.
Roger Brown offers a dystopian vision of university closures, cheap, unregulated for-profits and declining standards
Forget what the global rankings say: Europe is a worthier model for the UK as students there get a far better deal, argues Anthony Glees
Julian Beer and colleagues warn that the U-Multirank ranking system lacks flexibility and will not reflect institutions' missions
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Ceramicist and scholar Edmund de Waal argues for combining museum collections with recent work. Matthew Reisz reports
LondonUn peu de tendresse bordel de merde!Canadian choreographer Dave St-Pierre has been a major force in the contemporary dance scene for more than five years, an enfant terrible whose work has...
Our Corporate Director of Human Resources, Louise Bimpson, has welcomed the news that University College London plans to outsource all its cleaning and security services.Ms Bimpson told our reporter...
During the Commons debate on human trafficking on 18 May 2011, Denis MacShane, MP for Rotherham, quoting from the list of essay titles for an academic political theory course at the London School of...