Concerns about heavier workloads and the "managerialist" culture of universities are not the exclusive preserve of the UK - they are also being voiced in Ethiopia.The worries are set out in a paper...
Richard Byrne has been serving in Helmand province, encouraging farmers to grow crops other than the poppy
A former Welsh rugby union international has been made a dean at Leeds Metropolitan University. Gareth Davies, who was capped 21 times by his country, has been appointed dean of the Carnegie Faculty...
Good acting is built on reflection, not reality-TV dreams, the head of acting at Central School of Speech and Drama tells Melanie Newman
The Select Committee fails to draw blood in its probe of the state of higher education. John Gill reports from ringside on the feints and footwork
A drive for additional funds will encourage further education colleges to seek university status, a college head has told a committee of MPs.Asked by the MPs why successful colleges would seek to...
Students rate the feedback they receive in further education colleges, writes Rebecca Attwood
Swansea may not be big enough for two universities, according to Richard Davies, vice-chancellor of the University of Swansea.Speaking to Times Higher Education last week, Professor Davies said that...
No one could accuse the University of Leicester of underplaying its title as the current holder of Times Higher Education's University of the Year. To celebrate its triumph in the annual awards, the...
The first university course in the country to tackle food-chain issues "from farm to fork" is open to applicants at Cranfield University. The food-chain systems MSc will start in October and follows...
A nettle-fibre dress created by a fusion of fashion design and research from De Montfort University was worn on air last week by BBC TV presenter Kylie Pentelow. The dress was created by Jen Jarvis,...
The secret of golfing success is to stop thinking about your putting technique, psychologists have suggested. Cognitive neuroscientist Michael Anderson of the University of St Andrews and Kristin...
Men who are sexually promiscuous in their twenties and thirties are more likely to develop prostate cancer, University of Nottingham research suggests. But the study of 800 men, published in BJU...
High-tech home-based health monitoring will help alleviate the healthcare pressures of an ageing population. This is the prediction of University of Ulster researchers, who have won £2 million from...
A virtual centre to focus on future energy challenges has been set up by the University of Leeds in conjunction with Zhejiang University in China. The UoL-ZJU International Centre for Sustainable...