Clinton and Gore's key environmental adviser returns to his native UK to take up UEA and Defra posts The University of East Anglia has clinched the appointment of former White House environmental...
The Royal Academy of Engineering's list of new fellows for 2007 includes: Neil Alford , professor of physical electronics, Imperial College London; Helen Atkinson , professor in metals processing,...
The number of universities at fiscal risk is far smaller than recent reports suggest, Phil Baty reveals Six higher education institutions are currently "at risk" of financial failure, The Times...
High tuition fees risk turning foreign students away from UK universities and "killing the sector's golden goose", according to the Higher Education Policy Institute. A Hepi report, The Economic...
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A real-terms cut in graduate salaries this year may herald a fall in the financial value of a degree, employers have warned. The average graduate starting salary has failed to rise above inflation,...
Sir Howard Newby is to become the next vice-chancellor of Liverpool University as successor to Drummond Bone, who is due to retire in September 2008. The exact date for Sir Howard's departure from...
Canadian studies in the UK are facing the "grievous blow" of losing their Canadian Government funding, which would jeopardise much of what the discipline has achieved in recent decades, according to...
Ahead of response to Leitch Review, minister sees 'best financial environment in a generation' for higher education. "Huge opportunities" for dramatic expansion in higher education will come from...
"This has confirmed my worst fears," said Wes Streeting, the National Union of Students' vice-president for education. A draft student contract drawn up by commercial lawyers for the Association of...
As many as 250,000 students will benefit from a £400 million expansion of the student grant system, the Government has announced. Full-time students will qualify for a full grant of £2,825 if their...
The University and College Union will not be holding a national ballot on a proposed academic boycott of Israel before its next annual congress in 2008. Following a resolution at the 2007 UCU...
Cambridge University Press will issue an apology and correction after The Times Higher revealed that passages in its Cambridge Companion to D.H. Lawrence had been lifted from a 1960s work without...
The Queen has declared Imperial College an independent university in its own right during a visit to mark the centenary of its foundation this month. During the visit, the Queen also opened a new...
Staff at Sheffield Hallam University relocated to the new £8 million Arundel Building this week, as part of the university's five-year £100 million estates plan. The Arundel Building will house staff...