The introduction of two-year degrees could herald the end of the long academic summer holidays, according to universities involved in piloting the courses. Steve Wyn Williams, responsible for the...
Policemen can now fight crime and excess paperwork simultaneously thanks to a Glasgow University spin-off company. Lothian and Borders Police, as part of a four-month trial, have issued 300 officers...
De Montfort staff say they were pressed into inflating grades. Phil Baty reports. The full story of how De Montfort University raised failing students' exam results, in the face of furious opposition...
As John Hood prepares to issue a white paper on governance, Claire Sanders reports on divisions among staff. Oxford University should adopt a US style of academic leadership, with the vice-chancellor...
Business Initiative of the Year It can be all too easy for spin-off firms to feel that they are losing their ties with parent universities. But The Times Higher Award for Business Initiative of the...
Those academics who spent at least part of the Easter break fantasising about escaping the burdens of university life should take heart from Dylan Evans, a Bath University lecturer. Dr Evans, a...
The Times Higher advice panel answers readers' questions on pay docking, pensions and a host of other concerns relating to the industrial dispute If I have taken part in strike action, does it affect...
Stewart Muir, research assistant, Real Life Methods Node, Economic and Social Research Council National Centre for Research Methods, department of sociology, Manchester University Job advertised in...
Scottish universities claim that academic resources rather than telephone-number salaries are the key to luring academic research stars, writes Olga Wojtas. C. Duncan Rice, principal of Aberdeen...
Scottish universities have been warned that they could lose out in the academic job market if they are slow to adopt the new pay framework for staff. Union leaders in Scotland fear that Scottish...
As a national debate about illegal immigration rages in the US, several states have moved to stop illegal immigrants from being eligible for favourable tuition-fee rates and from receiving the same...
For the past two years, Heidi Auman has been studying hundreds of silver gulls on the shores around Hobart in Tasmania and on the remote islands in Bass Strait. Ms Auman, who is completing her PhD at...
The University of Buenos Aires faces a serious split after two attempts to elect a new rector have been frustrated by student protests. Hundreds of left-wing students, carrying red banners and...
Dutch universities are drawing up applications for a €100 million (£70 million) research programme intended to support collaboration with industry. The programme's emphasis on exploiting academic...
Developing countries should accept that they cannot reverse the brain drain, South Africa's Education Minister has told Commonwealth vice-chancellors. Instead they should concentrate on making use of...