Gender split on fellowship scheme ‘unacceptable’
The Royal Society has not been able to find any reason why so few women were successful in securing awards from one of its fellowship schemes in 2014
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Dementia care research becomes basis for touring play
A play based on an academic study of the stresses and satisfactions of care work in dementia wards has now set off on a six-venue tour
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Proportion of female professors up, but still below a quarter
Professors are several percentage points more likely to be women than they were a decade ago, new figures show
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6 significant challenges impeding technology adoption in higher education in 2015
What will hold back the use of technology in higher education over the next five years?
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Labour pressed to reveal plans on student numbers
Labour has been urged to say whether or not it would reintroduce caps on undergraduate numbers after unveiling its pledge to lower fees to £6,000.
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Bedfordshire cleared of giving Saudi students preferential treatment
QAA report followed claims university had bent rules to allow students sponsored by Saudi government extra resits
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Liam Byrne: Why fees should be £6K
As Ed Miliband announces Labour’s policy on university tuition fees, the shadow universities minister sets out his party’s plans for higher education
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Miliband announces £6K tuition fees pledge
Ed Miliband has pledged that a Labour government would lower fees to £6,000 and raise maintenance grants by £400
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One in four students uses social media to contact university staff
More than a quarter of university students now use social media to contact their lecturers
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Proportion of top BTEC students doubles: Hefce report
Students taking BTEC vocational qualifications are more than twice as likely to score top marks as they were seven years earlier, says a new study.
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Video: student builds Large Hadron Collider...from Lego
University of Liverpool PhD student wants models to be manufactured by the company
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THE podcast: 26 February - 4 March 2015 issue review
Download the podcastChallenging access targets for selective universities, reform of the research funding formula and the review of the research councils being led by Sir Paul Nurse all feature in...
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Why Offa is setting admissions targets for high tariff universities
Les Ebdon explains the thinking behind a new strategic aim for the Office for Fair Access
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Innovative new leadership role will become a must, predicts Bath v-c
Hefce chief to take up post of vice-president (implementation) in the spring tasked with change management
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Journal editor’s self-citation rate under scrutiny
Oxford blogger publishes citation count for autism expert, who ran two Elsevier titles