Higher education in Yorkshire is set for a dynamic shift in leadership with the announcement this week of three new vice-chancellors at Bradford, Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam universities, writes...
Quality watchdogs have raised questions over the academic leadership and management of the UK's newest university. York St John University, which gained its new title in October this year, has been...
The East of England is experiencing a "brain drain" with half its graduates leaving the area. The East of England Development Agency said many people left the region to go to university and those who...
Social policy researchers hope to enlist the people that their research affects most to judge its quality in the next research assessment exercise. Members of the RAE social policy sub-panel are...
David Wield, professor of innovation and development at the Open University, will next autumn become director of the life sciences research group Innogen, which has secured its future with a five-...
A series of sculptures marking the final major work of one of Scotland's greatest artists has been acquired by Aberdeen University. Column to Drum is the work of "poet, writer, artist, philosopher...
The Russell Group of elite universities was urged this week to consider adopting last week's decision by one of its members, University College London, to insist that all its undergraduates have a...
The North East of England has a strongly recognisable regional identity as one of the country's cradles of Christianity, an industrial heartland and the inspiration for gritty television dramas such...
Noel Dennis has a unique way of livening up his lectures on business theory. The 28-year-old principal lecturer in marketing at Teesside University thinks nothing of switching off the overhead...
Leaked survey at Sheffield Hallam reveals 'disturbing' fears of victimisation, high stress and sub-par performance in many areas of work that require 'urgent action'. Phil Baty reports Almost 100...
We look back at the fight over pay and the year's other key events and offer festive fun in a news quiz and personal reflections on the past 12 months It was billed as the first year of top-up fees,...
Lisa Jardine Director, Centre for Editing Lives and Letters, Arts and Humanities Research Council, Queen Mary, University of London * The most memorable event in 2006 for me had to be the recovery of...
QUOTES MATCH THE QUOTE TO THE PERSON a. "I always remember that no matter how bad it gets, it's never as bad as freezing your nuts off in the trenches" b. "If we are really going to do our dirty...
Let's allow racists and extremists to express their views and then subject them to criticism, argues Dennis Hayes Being offensive is now the worst offence in the academy. Other restrictions on...
Academic freedom is not an abstract concept but it exists within the constraints of our society, where academics have certain responsibilities both within the law and to our respective communities....