Should we make way for the robots and leave the lab?
Does the success of 'Adam' herald a future of automated research? asks Jesse Whittock
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Grant winners
ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCILSix new research fellows in the creative and performing arts will share more than £1.4 million in funding from the AHRC. These fellowships - each worth more than £...
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Closing the gap
Carolyn Fowler, Durham University's first female registrar, plans to bridge the divide between academics and administrators
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Appointments
Choreographer Emilyn Claid has been made a professor by University College Falmouth. As associate field director and senior lecturer of choreography at Falmouth, Professor Claid has worked with...
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More cash, but at a price
David Robinson says Canada has much to teach us about the commercial imperative in academia and its dangers
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There is room for improvement, but no sign of systemic failure
Higher education standards are in the spotlight, but investigation has found no evidence of serious deficiencies, says Colin Riordan
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We won't collude with efforts to use the academy to police immigration
Ann Singleton, Steve Tombs and David Whyte decry the insidious way in which academics are being used to monitor foreign students and staff
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A eureka moment: go local
After years of battling the Nimbys, John Brooks formulated a campus plan that articulates Manchester Met's values
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The week in higher education
The first of the annual university league tables has been published by The Independent, topped as usual by the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. However, the newspaper's table, printed on 30...
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Internet is fostering a 'want it now' culture among students
Report issues warning over impact of Web 2.0 on teaching and learning, writes Rebecca Attwood
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Small-group teaching and private study on the rise, Hepi study indicates
The amount of small-group teaching provided by universities may have increased since the introduction of top-up fees, but sector bodies are "ignoring" evidence that students in England put in fewer...
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REF may distort journal choices
Concern as researcher is 'steered away' from a specialist publication. Hannah Fearn reports
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Work-based learning must be embraced
Universities must abandon their snobbery towards work-based learning, the chief executive of Foundation Degree Forward will tell academics and university managers.Speaking in advance of Times Higher...
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Red-light work a grey area for universities
Stance on staff or student links to sex trade centres on reputation, not welfare, writes Rebecca Attwood
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RAE's non-specialist gambit could have led to blunders, says study
Non-expert judges may not have been up to the task, chess research claims. Zoe Corbyn reports