Podcast Powered By PodbeanOlympians Steve Cram and Bill Tancred, chancellor of the University of Sunderland and director of sport at University Campus Suffolk respectively, meet Chris Parr to talk...
Universities UK has been asked by David Willetts to undertake a review of part-time study and make urgent recommendations in response to a report which shows a “dramatic decline” in part-time...
Padraig Kirwan reviews an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery
This slice of college pudding, dating back to 1897, is now in the archives of Oxford Brookes University. It was originally served at the notoriously frugal Westminster College in London, a Methodist...
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A distinguished scholar of Irish literature who was also an acclaimed novelist, poet and playwright has died.Bob Welch was born in Cork on 25 November 1947 and graduated in English and Irish from...
In his critique of the sector’s approach to student visa policy (“In the twilight zone”, 21 February), Simeon Underwood suggests that the National Union of Students is “inside the [government] tent”...
In “Opus versus output” (7 March), Nicholas Till asks, can artistic practice be research? “Original composition is research” was the mantra of composers on the research assessment exercise from its...
As Wolfgang Stroebe and Miles Hewstone point out (“Primed, but not suspect”, 28 February), the chairs of the Levelt, Noort and Drenth committees tasked with investigating the fraudulent research...
You report a BBC finding that Oxbridge admission processes prefer autumn-born candidates (The week in higher education, 7 March). The next day, The Guardian published an article headed “Summer-born...
Vladimir Tismaneanu, in his appreciative review of Robert Gellately’s Stalin’s Curse: Battling for Communism in War and Cold War, makes the startling claim that “Stalin was intent upon provoking a...
The new Times Higher Education website does indeed provide a much improved “front end” to access the publication. However, surely “Letters” should be immediately adjacent to the “Leader” section in...
Leverhulme TrustPhilip Leverhulme PrizesClassicsAward winner: Michael SquireInstitution: King’s College LondonValue: £70,000The intersection between Graeco-Roman visual and literary culturesAward...
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