Thelmas celebrations led by Newcastle
Newcastle University scooped the top prize last night at the Times Higher Education Leadership and Management Awards 2013
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THE Leadership and Management Awards 2013 winners
Hard graft, creativity and a steady nerve are among the essential qualities for those leading our higher education institutions at a time of uncertainty and rapid change. Fortunately, all three...
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Rural A-level students ‘much less likely’ to go to university
State school children from London and other cities in England are more likely to go on to university after A levels than those from more rural districts, new figures suggest.
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100 Under 50 Rankings 2013 methodology
The Times Higher Education 100 Under 50 uses the same range of 13 performance indicators to rate institutions as the overall World University Rankings published every autumn but with a major ...
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Moocs are a ‘distraction’, warns sector expert
Massive open online courses could prove a distraction to universities and cost them money, according to a consultancy that advises governments, investors and institutions on higher education issues.
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GM crops ‘safe’ and ‘beneficial’, says minister
The UK government must be among those reassuring the public that genetically modified crops are “a safe, proven and beneficial innovation”, environment secretary Owen Paterson has said.
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THE podcast: 20 June 2013 issue review
Download the podcastThis week’s issue review looks at Quebec, one year on from the anti-fees student protests, and also the latest news on the UK government’s spending review due later this month,...
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‘User’-friendly REF panels to gauge impact
Hefce reveals 215 assessors chosen from outside academy
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Liverpool University faculty rejects revised contract terms
UCU criticises ‘gun to head’ of 2,800 non-academic staff
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Spin-offs: good science can make for bad business
Knowledge-transfer experts map path to market for university inventions
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News in brief - 20 June 2013
Funding and donationsArchive of pain nets £1m grantThe world’s oldest archive devoted to the Holocaust and the Nazi era has secured a £1 million grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund to safeguard its...
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Campus round-up - 20 June 2013
Source: GettyRemember themEducation experts will lead a project to send two pupils and a teacher from every state secondary school to the battlefields of the First World War. Working with the...
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News in brief - 20 June 2013
AustraliaTesting times for TeqsaAustralia’s new higher education regulator faces a test of its powers after it emerged that two private institutions have challenged some of its decisions. Stott’s...
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Odds and quads - 20 June 2013
These images represent highlights from a collection of almost 200 rare books, incunabula and manuscripts donated by the businessman Henry Davis (1897-1977) to the University of Ulster
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Wartime in Paris: Sheffield scholar’s diary to be filmed
Madeleine Blaess’ journal gets screen treatment