Europe needs a fifth freedom - free movement of knowledge - to best answer the challenges of globalisation, Janez Potocnik, the European Science and Research Commissioner, said last week. In London...
Universities have to "beg and scrape" for money to maintain high-security pathogen laboratories adequately, George Griffin, chairman of the Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens, last week told...
MPs have said there needs to be a clearer policy on "orphan" works or those for which it is impossible to trace the copyright holder, according to a committee of MPs on the work and operation of the...
David Wilson's first-hand contact with serial killers while in the Prison Service has informed his work as an academic
Paul Manners has been appointed director of the new National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement, which was set up to improve links and dialogue between universities and the public. Funded by...
Striving to make the marking process reliable, clear and scrupulously fair will help students learn from the exercise, even when they fail
Employee survey makes 'disturbing' reading for higher education, writes Melanie Newman
Universities should apply their widening participation policies to the recruitment of vice-chancellors and consider administrative staff without academic backgrounds for the job, the registrar of the...
A £4 million gift from an educational philanthropist will boost the University of Cambridge's efforts to attract more state-school applicants.Harvey McGrath, former chair of Man Group and a graduate...
- "Universities must tread carefully to avoid antagonising the University and College Union unnecessarily," said the leader column in The Independent education and careers supplement on 20 March. The...
Committee dismisses government case for second-degree funding changes, writes Rebecca Attwood
The withdrawal of funding for students taking equivalent or lower qualifications is being blamed for queries by a number of universities about the accuracy of recent funding allocations.Ten English...
LSE economist urges review of funding system and a higher fees cap, reports Rebecca Attwood
Practice-based PhDs, where doctorates are awarded for "non-textual" submissions such as a work of art, are becoming more common. Yet researchers in the creative fields still lack a "properly...