Tara Brabazon: The invisible support network
Librarians remain an often unseen and unappreciated element of good teaching and research. Tara Brabazon interviews an extraordinary one about the challenges the profession faces at the front line of...
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Wales shields its students from higher fees
Students from Wales will be spared additional costs of higher education wherever they study in the UK despite confirmation that Welsh universities will be allowed to charge tuition fees of £9,000 a...
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Labour loses White Paper vote
MPs have rejected Labour calls for the publication of a higher education White Paper before the parliamentary vote on tuition fees, as the opposition accused the coalition government of wanting the...
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Student finance reforms would leave more than 60% of graduates poorer, says Million+ report
More than 60 per cent of graduates will be poorer across their lifetimes if government reforms to student finance are voted through, according to new analysis.
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Seeking volunteers: scholars urged to take pay freeze to aid Scottish academy
Academics in Scotland should accept a voluntary pay freeze to help shore up the sector’s finances and prevent a decline in course quality, a scholar has argued.
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Weinberg to take the reins at Kingston
Kingston University has named its new vice-chancellor.
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Should lecturers leave unruly classes?
By Scott Jaschik for Inside Higher Ed
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Friends in need: the Council for Assisting Refugee Academics and Scholars at Risk help to rebuild lives
“Not much to celebrate at the moment in Baghdad,” May Witwit emailed Bee Rowlatt on 7 December 2006. “A threat has reached university teachers and students…warning them to stop attending lectures or...
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Hefce head denounces likely loss of arts teaching funding
The man in charge of allocating funding to England’s universities has said he would not be “comfortable” living and working in a country that did not provide teaching funding for arts and humanities...
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Top award for York as sector celebrates its achievements
The University of York has been named University of the Year at the Times Higher Education Awards 2010.
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Competitive pressure: Willetts sounds warning on fee levels
Universities should not assume they can all charge high fees and must be careful not to “underestimate” the competition they will face from new providers such as further education colleges, David...
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THE Awards 2010: winners announced
What do a rubbish-collecting recommissioned milk float, “magnetricity” and the bombardier beetle have in common? They have all played a part in helping academics and their universities triumph in the...
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Lib Dem deputy targeted as student protests continue
Students protesting against plans for higher tuition fees and the abolition of the Education Maintenance Grant have barricaded themselves in the constituency office of the deputy leader of the...
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Aimhigher brought down by coalition axe
A national programme that aims to widen participation in higher education is to be scrapped.
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There's more to a story than facts and figures
The Freedom of Information Act enables public access to scientists' research data, but can scientific knowledge really be extracted in this way? Scientists should engage with the public, but need to...