Mark Girouard's Elizabethan Architecture is concerned with "the intensely artificial, elaborately composed houses of great people, as artificial as the clothes that encased their inhabitants". It is...
BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT- The Elephant In the Boardroom: The Causes of Leadership DerailmentBy Adrian Furnham, professor of psychology, University College London. Palgrave Macmillan, £25.00. ISBN...
Our Deputy Head of Corporate Branding, Christine Hovis, has responded vigorously to a complaint made to the Advertising Standards Authority about our university's branding strategy.Following in the...
Research council plans to track outcomes for ten years are receiving a mixed reaction, says Zoe Corbyn
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The recession and a succession of government cuts and blunders have robbed young people of their future and of hope
Recently, my co-citizens in Massachusetts elected an undistinguished Republican candidate (and centrefold model) to replace the departed brilliant politician and Democratic icon Ted Kennedy as...
A recently retired deputy vice-chancellor at Bath Spa University, who was responsible for tailoring its historic campuses to the needs of a modern university, has died.Tony Dewberry was born in...
Kevin Fong offers a few options for the sector in lieu of a realistic strategy
I welcome David Greenaway's more realistic appraisal of the way forward for university financing ("We did it before ...", 28 January). The higher education sector has done well over the past decade...
The UK needs to produce more physicists, according to Sir Brian Follett, chair of the STEM Advisory Forum. Yet this is being undermined by severe funding cuts to fundamental physics and astronomy...
If UK universities now operate in a global market for staff and students, then a concern with excellence would seem to make it sensible to revisit the issue of tenure, which was abolished in 1988.It...
Your report on the proposed redundancies in history at the University of Sussex omits one significant wrinkle ("Despite colleagues' support, cuts cause deep traumas", 21 January). The cuts have been...
Much as one regrets Lancaster University's loss ("Researchers fear that early end to collection loan will hit REF standing", 28 January), Robert Appelbaum is too pessimistic when he suggests that...
The notion of "recycled news" reached previously unheard-of temporal dimensions with your disappointingly sensationalist report on a therapist's unconventional work nearly three decades ago ("Stark...