Denham booed over adult education budget cuts

John Denham, the Universities Secretary, was booed as he defended the Government's record on education at a volatile meeting with campaigners in Westminster last week.Responding to persistent...

Flexible and purposeful

David Eastwood on the challenge of allocating funding to support excellent research and world-class teaching

Students armed with sub-editing skills are given tools for life

If people who teach journalists will not uphold standards in the use of English, we cannot expect others to do so, says Tim Luckhurst

Cartoon by Ham

Research elite shaken by RAE settlement

Good news for post-92s but cash spread more thinly. Zoë Corbyn and Rebecca Attwood report

The week in higher education

- University lecturers are doing more unpaid overtime than they did last year, according to the University and College Union. The UCU, which was marking Work Your Proper Hours Day on February, said...

Daytime TV: Hidden depths

Gary Day is gripped by Jeremy Paxman's analysis of Victorian paintings and the latest drama on Mrs T

Top journals in mathematics based on citations per paper

Data provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators database, 1 January 1998-31 October 2008

5 March 2009

Who’s hit the jackpot? - Funding allocations in full

UK higher education’s research claims are ‘ridiculous’, says Vodafone director

R&D boss thinks the grandiose pretensions of the ‘University of Middle Wallop’ are putting off international firms and damaging the country’s reputation. Hannah Fearn reports

Tara Brabazon: Music and passion, but never in fashion

Barry Manilow has the skill to vacuum-seal emotion in every lyric and speaks for and to those who are neglected and marginalised

Bullied Blogger: Walking a tightrope in the dark…

24 February: I phoned in sick on Friday and decided to dispatch some emails seeking advice on what the hell to do about Marcus. Just when there seems a way out of the situation, in comes an email to...

Ucas chief to head up quality watchdog

The chief executive of the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service is set to become the next head of the higher education quality watchdog, it has been announced.Anthony McClaran will take over...

The students are revolting

In which a lecture on the Thirty Years War is swept aside by a juggernaut of animal welfare protests, and Gloria Monday becomes a pro-chicken heroine despite herself

Practical knowledge

Although its candidates often lead their fields, the professional doctorate still attracts disdain, and a lack of standardisation does not help. John Gill writes