Russell Group exerts magnetic pull on ministers
Willetts and Cable appear to prefer visiting the Russell Group to post-1992s, writes John Morgan

Willetts and Cable appear to prefer visiting the Russell Group to post-1992s, writes John Morgan

As research intensives band together to pool resources, they could be showing us the best way to weather the downturn

“Boring” university lectures are likely to be the first victims of the rise of online learning, according to Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales. Speaking to BBC Online on 1 May, Mr Wales suggested that...

A new grouping of southeast institutions accounts for a third of EPSRC-funded work. Paul Jump reports

More than half of academics are either not aware of universities’ knowledge transfer services or do not use them, a survey has found.Only 43 per cent of the almost 22,000 academics questioned for the...

Vice-chancellor believes ‘radical solution’ is the way to rise up the rankings. John Morgan reports

Preparing students for higher education must begin sooner, says Alan Ryan

US researchers who spent time living alongside sorority students at a Midwestern university observed a depressingly divisive class culture where partying is a vocation, status eclipses study and...

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Institution targets untapped foreign market

Engine of social progress“What local community?”Just one of the remarks made to our Town-Gown committee as they examined the university’s relationship with the city of Poppleton in the wake of survey...

A new grouping of southeast institutions accounts for a third of EPSRC-funded work. Paul Jump reports

Bahram Bekhradnia on funding chiefs’ hunt for a new leader