The Northern Ireland Executive has been urged by the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service and the Student Loans Company (SLC) to clarify its position on tuition fees for 2012-13 as a matter...
Plymouth advised to tighten up procedures before ending correspondence courses. Jack Grove writes
Board member resigns over the matter and dozens sign a petition in protest. Simon Baker reports
AppointmentsA pair of engaging FellowsAnaesthetist Kevin Fong and medical historian Richard Barnett have been named as the Wellcome Trust's first engagement Fellows. The biomedical funder will...
Education scholars must showcase work or face obscurity, says Bera head. Matthew Reisz writes
Teaching diarists wrap up the year and look ahead to a break, if not a rest. Sarah Cunnane reports
The Science and Technology Facilities Council has agreed to reassess its membership to make sure the views of academics are adequately represented.
ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCILFellowship Awards• Award winner: Karen Leeder• Institution: University of Oxford• Value: £88,657Spectres of the GDR: The haunting of the Berlin Republic• Award...
The Jameel Prize 2011LondonA mirror mosaic inspired by the feathers left behind by sparrows on the artist's balcony in Tehran; what looks like a piece of brown cloth lying on the floor, but turns out...
Peter Hill considers an exhibition dedicated to art in the first decade of the 21st century and wonders just how innovative the past 10 years have been
Terence Rattigan was fascinated by what drives us and what makes our hearts ache, says Gary Day
LondonHigh ArcticThis remarkable installation, displayed in the new Sammy Ofer Wing at the National Maritime Museum until 13 January 2012, was inspired by a trip to the Svalbard Archipelago...
"Absolutely right! Couldn't agree more! Spot on!"These were just a few of the enthusiastic reactions from Donald Ringling, our Head of Marketing and Promotion, to the recent proposal by Peter Reader...
• "A shelf stacker at Waitrose has more power in the corporate governance of the firm than I do as an academic at London Met." So said Maurice Glasman, the political theory lecturer and "Blue Labour...
Universities cannot be truly competitive unless they can set pay locally. Like it or not, national bargaining is a dead duck