Pensions ballots at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge saw more than 80 per cent of the staff members who voted rejecting the employers’ plans to cut benefits in the Universities Superannuation...
The Scottish Highlands and Islands could soon have their own university after the UHI Millennium Institute cleared a major hurdle on its way to securing university status.
The University of Chichester has appointed its acting vice-chancellor, Clive Behagg, to take over the role permanently.
In cricket, as in other fields, choosing sides matters, writes Richard Bosworth
The number of higher education institutions in Wales is to be cut from 11 to six within the next two years, the Welsh funding council has said.
Liberal arts degrees are appearing in the UK and arousing much interest. Protagonists claim that the wide-ranging education provides more rounded individuals who are better prepared for modern...
The high tuition fees paid by overseas students are an attractive source of revenue in these straitened times. But will higher education reforms change all that? Matthew Partridge investigates
Academics have long been criticised for being out of touch with the real world. Matthew Reisz finds that many make great efforts to dispel ivory tower attitudes, but others believe such habits will...
When it comes to the value of monetary transactions, context is key, Natalie Gold writes
A.W. Purdue welcomes a spirited addition to the search for the source of our nostalgic Yuletide
It's hard to know who the intended audience for this book is, partly because it's hard to know what kind of book this is. The latter ambiguity is certainly part of the point; indeed, The Poetry...
Is death the possibility of impossibility, or the impossibility of possibility? This is the sort of question that Simon Critchley tussles with in this ostentatiously erudite book. It's about his life...
Cary L. Cooper recommends a commanding approach that inspires people to want to do things
The current Monet-fest in Paris allows the public an opportunity to view more than 170 paintings and 20 drawings by the artist at the Grand Palais, as well as the retrospective Collection Intime at...
Judith Allen's little book - only 117 pages of text - has a wide reach. It documents the corruption of political discourse in Virginia Woolf's time and ours, reflects on "the essayistic" as an...