University employers say that the UK sector's £30 billion pension fund is performing better than expected - proof that "draconian" cuts to benefits were not needed, a union has claimed.
A head of school at a Russell Group university emailed academics urging them to be "VERY generous" when assessing postgraduate applications, warning them that they "simply cannot afford to be very...
Tensions mount as Michael Russell affirms multi-pronged reform agenda. David Matthews writes
Education expert locks horns with HEA chief over need to train academics to teach. John Gill reports
New questions have been raised about the process for granting taught degree-awarding powers to commercial companies after a US for-profit bought a UK provider and promised to pay a further £4 million...
Concerns grow that framework programme is ignoring humanities research. Paul Jump writes
1994 Group fears proposed changes to teacher training could be devastating, reports Jack Grove
Queen's University Belfast plans to shed about 200 jobs as part of a £28 million "efficiency saving" in Northern Ireland's higher education sector.
Academics have been urged to stop "cheating" students and commit to a truly honest relationship.Kyra Gaunt-Palmer, associate professor of anthropology and black studies at Baruch College at the City...
Intellectual propertyBeware of blunt instrumentsChanges in copyright law to allow unfettered data mining are an "unwarranted blunt instrument which will undermine UK publishing", it has been claimed...
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Douglas Cowie has his eyes opened to the briefest of literary forms: the borrowed bon mot
There is danger in giving free rein to the world's most popular search engine, discovers Harold Thimbleby
Slavery and the slave trade in the Americas flourished for 400 years from the 1480s until the 1880s. During that long period, the slave trade was the most important coerced migration of people...
As I sit at my computer about to start writing this review, I find myself gently tapping the keys on my keypad, gradually losing myself in the sounds and rhythms afforded by different pressures of my...