A major HEA project will examine how excellence is recognised and rewarded. Rebecca Attwood reportsAcademics will be more likely to win promotion for good quality teaching under a new initiative from...
Report identifies failures and omissions in sector's approaches to safety of social scientists. Rebecca Attwood reports Instances of assault, murder and psychological trauma as a result of academic...
An academic branded "research inactive" because his work will not be submitted for next year's research assessment exercise is forming a support group for other academics left out in the cold....
Warwick Business School's dean is celebrating his school's 40th anniversary with three awards of his own Don't tell his vice-chancellor, but Howard Thomas would happily work for free. The dean of...
* Mark Addis , a reader in philosophy and cultural theory at the University of Central England, Birmingham, has been elected to the executive committee of the British Philosophical Association. *...
Agency set up to attract students to Australasia says UK institutions are 'complacent'. Tony Tysome reports A British private company is encouraging students to shun their home universities and study...
Are you frustrated by conferences where the coffee breaks turn out to be more stimulating than the formal presentations? Bored by meetings that take all afternoon but never get round to the burning...
The Medical Research Council's management of public funds and its entire strategic direction are under question after MPs criticised its chairman's decision-making and expressed "serious reservations...
There are fears that science policy will not be subject to proper Parliamentary scrutiny following the abolition of the House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee (STC) after the...
The Quality Assurance Agency has criticised Lampeter University for failing to adequately monitor the quality of its degrees. Lampeter is the latest institution to receive a "limited confidence"...
Work placements are the latest aspect of university life to gain their own league table, thanks to four recent Loughborough University graduates. Alastair Lindsay, Ben Smith, Oliver Sidwell and Chris...
Labour MP John Mann has described talk of an academic boycott of Israeli universities as "a misnomer given by a group of people who have time on their hands". Speaking in a House of Commons debate on...
Scramble to adjust market status has already begun ahead of 2009 review of tuition fees. Tony Tysome reports For many vice-chancellors, it has become a question of "when", not "if". The 2009 review...
Have you ever wondered how many of your pearls of wisdom students are actually taking in? Well, researchers have come up with the answer: just three. Tutors should put on students' work no more than...
Some students are so obsessed with marks that they do not bother to read the comments written by tutors on their work, according to a new study, writes Chloe Stothart. Three quarters of students in a...