I wonder what university teaching will look like in, say, 10 years?Will the age-old system continue, in which a lecturer pontificates from a lectern for an hour or two and tutors of varying ability...
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Willetts vaunts flat-cash victory for science, but research councils still face operating-budget cuts. Paul Jump reports
Any doubts that world university rankings are influencing institutions’ strategic thinking are likely to be dispelled by news that academics in Taiwan have developed a tool that predicts the outcome...
Universities have for some time left A levels to others, but they may soon find themselves driven to reassert control
Top nations in neuroscience and behaviourData provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators, January 2000-June 2010 Country Papers CitationsImpact1 England24,009 600,942 25.032...
Unions want the employer to bear the financial burden, not the student. Hannah Fearn reports
The University and College Union has condemned the University of Manchester's decision to repeat an exercise that assigns numerical scores to staff on the basis of their research output.Manchester...
RedundanciesLancaster loses pay-off appealLancaster University has lost an appeal to overturn a ruling that it pay 60 days' salary to a group of employees whose fixed-term contracts were not renewed...
Think digitally and steer academics away from their 'cravings', librarians are told. Hannah Fearn writes
Scientists have been measuring stars by monitoring their "singing ability". Researchers at the University of Birmingham have observed the natural pulse of the light waves emitted by stars and...
Older people should not feel guilty about taking naps during the day if it allows them to keep active and busy when they are feeling less tired, new research suggests. Academics at the University of...
A UK university's campus in China has been recognised for its international research collaborations by the country's government. The University of Nottingham's Ningbo campus, which opened in 2004,...
Two strains of mosquito responsible for the majority of malaria transmission in Africa have evolved such significant genetic differences they are becoming different species. The finding by a team of...
Archaelologists may have uncovered evidence of Britain's earliest known hospital. The University of Winchester's excavations at St Mary Magdalen, on the outskirts of the historic city, have revealed...