11 April 2013
Prudent lessons - is your university’s financial house in order?

Prudent lessons - is your university’s financial house in order?
EgyptThat didn’t go down wellHundreds of Egyptian students at al-Azhar University stormed the offices of one of the country’s top Muslim clerics, who presides over their institution, during a protest...

Strikers are hitting out at ‘charter for managerial radicalism’, says academic. Paul Jump reports
The long-precarious position of the lettori - the British and other foreign lecturers working within Italian universities - has recently taken a turn for the worse as 91 of them have had their...

Matthew Reisz reports on plans to help European academics think, speak and act transnationally
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University of WarwickRobert HarrisonThe newly appointed professor of innovative manufacturing at WMG, the University of Warwick’s manufacturing group, said his first priority since taking up the post...

An award-winning television correspondent and producer-turned- academic has diedRobert Beers was born on 25 November 1946 in Seattle, Washington and studied for a BA in international relations,...
As the rise in student complaints is not just a UK problem, sharing good practice is essential, argues Rob Behrens

Efficient and inclusive decision-making will help universities to gain the support of their communities, says Ferdinand von Prondzynski

Better procurement could be the secret to balancing the sector’s books in tough times, Nick Petford and Andy Davies suggest

Academic input would boost a neglected war museum, says Sally Feldman

Entomologist James Logan joins a swarm of events in celebration of the tiny, mighty (and tasty) insects sharing our planet

EgyptThat didn’t go down wellHundreds of Egyptian students at al-Azhar University stormed the offices of one of the country’s top Muslim clerics, who presides over their institution, during a protest...

THE Awards 2013Open for entriesEntries are now being welcomed from universities across the UK for the ninth annual Times Higher Education Awards. Institutions, departments and individuals will...