Les Ebdon has been lined up to take over as head of Campaigning for Mainstream Universities A new league table ranking universities on the educational value they add to their students between the...
Steve Currall , director of University College London's Centre for Enterprise and the Management of Innovation, has been appointed to the Nanotechnology Technical Advisory Group, charged with...
Al Gore rallies UK academics to spread word about climate change, says Anthea Lipsett. UK academics this week signed up for an interdisciplinary crusade against global warming launched by former US...
Forget Sir Alan Sugar, entrepreneur and star of the hit BBC Two series The Apprentice . What your business needs is a philosopher, writes Anthea Lipsett. Tristan Moyle, a philosophy lecturer at...
Greater recognition, funding and more awards have come to two of The Times Higher 's award winners since they collected their trophies last November. For Irwin McLean, Dundee University's professor...
Fears of a second £100 million raid on research council savings were laid to rest this week in the wake of the Budget boost for science, writes Anthea Lipsett. Academics were worried that the...
Opening the borders of wisdom The Bologna Process demystified Easter books Richard Harries reviews Jesus in the Talmud and Mary Warnock studies The Lucifer Effect: Understanding how Good People Turn...
Estates Management supplement Published in The Times Higher on March 30 2007 Property potential The state of the estate A scrub-up for icons Sixties structures are being revamped It’s just...
The physical environment of an institution is crucial to the learning experience. Paul Watson surveys efforts to adapt facilities to student aspirations and to the 21st century Universities have been...
The revolutionary campuses of the Sixties are showing their age and many are booked in for a facelift, says Becky McCall In the same way that the miniskirt and the Beatles came to symbolise the...
The tasks for Essex’s estate management director Andrew Nightingale involve slotting together ideas on funding, erecting a wind turbine and tackling the planning committee FEBRUARY 2007 8.30am I...
An instinct for innovation will enable higher education to lead the environmental agenda. David Eastwood explains Higher education has been at the heart of identifying the causes and the extent of...
A new model for assessing a university’s building needs takes into account not only its academic profile but also staff and students’ activities, says David Chiddick A ffordability is a critical...
Nottingham’s Jubilee Campus is notable not just for its design but also for its role in regeneration, as Matthew Baker reports Back in the 1960s, T. Dan Smith, the maverick leader of Newcastle City...
This year’s winners had new spins on fuel efficiency, bicycle recycling, environmentally friendly building renovations and course content. Martin Ince reports The Green Gown Awards are designed to...