FoI guidance aims to avoid 'Climategate' II
A task force is being established to draft a set of guidelines on how universities should respond to Freedom of Information Act requests in the wake of the "Climategate" affair.The University of East...
A task force is being established to draft a set of guidelines on how universities should respond to Freedom of Information Act requests in the wake of the "Climategate" affair.The University of East...
Critics warn of impact on UK research as managers struggle with overseas quotas. John Morgan reports
USS reforms on consultation agenda, but UCU aims to build opposition online. John Morgan reports
The sector needs agreement on pensions and job security if it is to resist savage coalition cuts, argues Sally Hunt

Mike Boxall and Paul Woodgates explain how universities can thrive despite mass retrenchment and pressure from private competitors

Kaleidoscopic vision - The pioneers shifting disciplinary boundaries

We all collude in the hype cycle that turns shiny ‘new media’ into forgotten, junk-generating ‘dead media’, and it’s time to look at the costs, argues Tara Brabazon
The UK’s second Nobel award in two days attests to the research excellence that will be endangered if the research budget is slashed in the forthcoming Comprehensive Spending Review, scientists have...
To secure our future in hard times, we must make tough choices and ensure that society is aware of higher education’s value, argues Paul Marshall

By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
Scientists must be liberated from the idea that they are “just cogs in an economic machine”, the Conservative Party conference has heard.
Degree-course fees are likely to escalate rapidly and could reach as much as five times the current sum if the existing cap is lifted, an education charity has warned.
Defining institutional mission is the cornerstone of a successful development, Matthew Reisz hears
The University of Gloucestershire has lost a tribunal case brought by a manager who claimed she was sidelined after blowing the whistle on the state of the institution’s finances.
The president of the University of Chicago has defended the notion of a wide-ranging university education that cultivates the “habit of mind to integrate ideas”, in the face of employers’ demands for...