Bigger is better, up to a point: study probes secret of research success.

Institutions with 7,500 staff had best research assessment exercise scores, reports Zoe Corbyn

AHRC to fund 6,000 new masters and PHD places

More than 6,000 new masters and PhD places in the arts and humanities will be created over the next five years.The Arts and Humanities Research Council has announced two new mechanisms for allocating...

Institutions hear consumers when students speak

Universities think listening to their students is very important - but they put more emphasis on viewing students as "consumers" than on seeing them as "partners in a learning community", according...

UEL v-c resigns after lengthy suspension

Martin Everett's seven-month limbo ends with his exit, but questions remain, writes Melanie Newman

Sussex PhD student skips bail and heads abroad to continue work

SCIS founder faces fraud allegations in the UK and is wanted in Germany. Melanie Newman reports

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

A pretty pocket

Our thrusting Director of Corporate Affairs, Jamie Targett, has professed himself "moderately shocked" by the recent announcement from Universities Secretary John Denham that while recognising the "...

Doctor who and how

Viva PhD success - and let's fête the candidates a little, too, says Tim Birkhead