5 July 2012
Overtaking the Joneses - Scots triumph in Celtic comparison

Overtaking the Joneses - Scots triumph in Celtic comparison

Felipe Fernández-Armesto urges students to take on tutors in a war of ideas

In 1848, the Royal Polytechnic Institution on London's Regent Street installed a 1,000-seat theatre, purpose-built for "optical exhibitions" such as magic lantern shows. It was here that Charles...

THE investigation shows almost £60m spent on agents’ commissions. David Matthews reports

As the findings of the final research assessment exercise are released, Times Higher Education has devised tables of excellence to rank institutions according to their subject successes and their...

Queen Mary makes Fanis Missirlis, persistent thorn in management’s side, redundant

The discovery of a particle with all the hallmarks of the long-sought Higgs boson is a “breakthrough in world science”, universities and science minister David Willetts said today.
The average starting salary in graduate-level jobs has increased by 6 per cent to £26,500 a year, according to a survey by the Association of Graduate Recruiters.
Students at new universities are almost twice as likely to get a full student grant as their peers at Russell Group institutions, figures show.
University of Birmingham vice-chancellor David Eastwood has been selected as the new chair of the Russell Group of research-intensive universities.

Applications by international students to study MBAs in the UK have been hit by unwelcoming government changes to visa policies, according to a survey from the Association of MBAs (AMBA).
The Welsh funding council will assess how the quality of higher education in the country’s universities can be improved in changes to its powers outlined in a White Paper released by the Cardiff...

The University of Birmingham has withdrawn a job advertisement for an “honorary” unpaid research assistant after critics claimed the position was exploitative.

By Elise Young for Inside Higher Ed
London will host the pharmaceuticals division of a new European court designed to handle patent disputes, the heads of European Union states agreed on 29 June.