Praise for the engine room
Times Higher Education's People pages suggest a world of fast-moving go-getters - with the exception, over on the right, of a lone deceased colleague whose dedication to their discipline and students...
Times Higher Education's People pages suggest a world of fast-moving go-getters - with the exception, over on the right, of a lone deceased colleague whose dedication to their discipline and students...

A film about Margaret Thatcher is unrealistic about her and events in her premiership, says Duncan Wu

The BBC's new Sherlock Holmes is great fun, says Gary Day, but the man himself remains an enigma

A Czech who came to make Leeds her home, Petra Rogers was cheerful and popular, and was known for her compassion and sensitivity.Ms Rogers was born in the Czech Republic on 23 May 1970. She studied...

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Imperial College LondonFairytale ending?The widely accepted "Goldilocks theory" of why life flourishes on Earth has been challenged. The idea posits there is no life on Venus or Mars because they are...

In 2010, sculptor Tom Harvey created this work from the remains of a 250-year-old cedar tree - the oldest on the campus of The Open University - which had fallen victim to an infestation of the small...
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Cash cow disease - How the wages of validation led to a 118-year-old institution’s demise

Students are suffering from survey fatigue - as are we all, says Sally Feldman

Willetts receives demand for ‘complete rethink’ of council’s structure and policies. Paul Jump reports
University applications by UK students are running 7.6 per cent below last year’s levels, the latest figures show.

David Willetts has set out proposals for major multi-national corporations to join forces with a foreign or British university and establish new graduate-only research institutions in the UK.

By Allie Grasgreen for Inside Higher Ed
Students at King’s College, Cambridge, spent so much time on protests challenging the higher education reforms that they neglected their studies, according to its provost.