The University of Kent is making up to 11 academics compulsorily redundant, including four professors in its School of Biosciences, on the grounds that their research and teaching performance is not...
For academics wary of managerialism, it may come as a shock to learn that "human resources management and public policy" is the UK's strongest area of interdisciplinary research.An analysis by the...
Reviews foreshadow change in the governance and shape of sector and HEFCW. Hannah Fearn reports
Sir Patrick Stewart describes the delights of higher education, the dangers it faces and how Huddersfield lured him home
The web is a force for good - or not, learns Gary Day. Are young people distracted or thinking differently?
Data provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators database, January 1999-October 2009
Proposals by the University of Sheffield that academics adopt a shorter working week have been enthusiastically endorsed by our vice-chancellor.He told our reporter Keith Ponting (45 hours) that...
America's gun culture is a symptom of its deep political malaise, says Alan Ryan
Adrian Smith tells Zoë Corbyn about BIS' move to seek the sector's advice when allocating the science budget
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
Higher education's many contributions to the UK are too often missed - we hope to help change that with our campaign
The internationalisation of higher education is a double-edged sword: it has the potential to enrich and deprive the values of higher education simultaneously.Thus, while the global exchange of...
A leading literary critic described by an admirer as "a bit of an oddball" who was "not afraid to be an original thinker" has died.David Musselwhite was born on 3 December 1940 and graduated in...
The current brouhaha surrounding Lord Ashcroft and his non-domicile status should not be allowed to obscure the fact that he has made a valuable contribution to the field of education.The...
I feel I must write to say how depressing I found reading your latest Textbook Guide. The book entitled The 1960s: A Documentary Reader was classified under history. Am I really "history" at the age...