A new fellowship scheme has been launched at Imperial College London which will give emerging scientists freedom to pursue their research "unfettered by other demands".Under the Junior Research...
AHRC is to reconsider the way that it supports individual researchers. Zoe Corbyn reports
Union hails trend, but also warns of persistent 'casualisation culture'. Melanie Newman reports
The Government has promised young people a "universal offer" of financial support for education and training, whether or not they decide to go to university.Speaking last week, John Denham, the...
Watchdog notes fears that 'inessential' services put academic work at risk, writes Melanie Newman
"As Einstein once said," asserts an Essex University philosopher examinee, "Everything is relevant". Well he might have done. Like all the best howlers this year, that one (from A. D. Smith of the...
Engagement with industryMore firms link up with academeThe UK Business Barometer, a survey of businesses run by the University of Nottingham Institute for Enterprise and Innovation, found that almost...
Frank Furedi says the reason the degree classification system is broken is too little autonomy, not too much
Widening-participation pieties that ignore class are as much a fantasy as J. K. Rowling's magical-mirror Oxbridge, says Mary Evans
Wellington was once a town where espresso was dangerously pretentious, but an innovative alliance of galleries, libraries, archives and museums has helped rebrand the New Zealand city
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"Nobody likes us - and we don't care." That was the fighting response from Professor Gordon Greenwich, the Deputy Head of our Theology Department, to the recent suggestion from "a union source" that...