State school students in England with university-educated parents are five times more likely to reach higher education than those from "disadvantaged backgrounds", and are also more likely to go to...
A UK-based platform for massive open online courses (Moocs) to rival established providers in the US has been launched by The Open University.
University of SheffieldHow richly sums have decked theeFestive mathematics students have created a formula for the perfectly decorated Christmas tree. Members of the University of Sheffield's maths...
Principal buoyed by degree-awarding powers is sanguine about Moocs' threat, finds John Morgan
UUK tells sector to show willing on shared services as two schemes collapse. David Matthews reports
LEVERHULME TRUSTResearch project grantsSciences• Award winner: John Carr• Institution: University of Cambridge• Value: £241,544Payback: do plant viruses compensate their hosts by helping to attract...
One of the dominant international figures in the development of the theory of condensed matter has died.Balázs Gyorffy was born in Eger, Hungary, in 1938, but fled to Vienna in 1956 after realising...
Software and skilled interpretation help in analysing the mass of user-generated media content, scholar tells Matthew Reisz
Quality assuranceTwo bodies, one visionThe Quality Assurance Agency and the Office of the Independent Adjudicator have committed to sharing information. A co-signed memorandum of understanding...
'Residual body' will award degrees up to at least 2017-18, says v-c. David Matthews reports
New ZealandFee increase bid rejectedThe head of the body that represents Maori higher education students in New Zealand has welcomed the government's decision to turn down a university's application...
The University and College Union research officer quoted in Times Higher Education last week deserves credit for publicising an open secret: that our "top" universities claim inflated student-to-...
The conundrum of academics who do not teach but who are counted statistically as doing so is surely easily solved in the era of multitasking. As academics potter around the archives or are deep in...
Regarding "Words louder than action" (Letters, 6 December). In it, Chris Pearson, director of human resources at Queen Mary, University of London, welcomes the decision by the University and College...
Nobel laureate Andre Geim criticises academics who spend their lives researching the same subjects that they addressed in their doctoral work ("Not monkeys, so why the peanuts?", News, 29 November)....