Gerry McKenna, the former vice-chancellor of Ulster University, was scheduled to appear in court this week to face a charge of driving under the influence of excess alcohol. It is understood that...
It is the stuff of every frustrated academic's fantasies - but computing professor Richard Bornat is counting the cost of firing off a no-holds-barred e-mail to all his colleagues in which he...
WHO ARE BRITAIN'S RICHEST ACADEMICS? We reveal those who made a mint out of spin-oof, in the first of a three-part series. Plus: Hizb ut-Tahrir on defending freedom of speech
Middlesex University has decided to phase out history because of poor student demand, as part of an effort to save £10 million a year. As The Times Higher reported last month, the department runs a...
Students who annoy their neighbours by playing loud music could be evicted from their homes under proposals in the Government's "respect" agenda to clamp down on antisocial behaviour. The Home Office...
Museums, galleries, libraries and archives will be eligible for government research funding from April, it was announced this week. The National Portrait Gallery and the Tate are among those with "...
Edinburgh University will be the first Scottish institution to take part in the official national student satisfaction survey. In last year's first National Student Survey, 170,000 final-year...
Universities have found collaboration with industry simpler, quicker and easier thanks to a set of model contracts, according to a survey by the Association for University Research and Industry Links...
A survey by the Research Information Network has found that investment of £30 million over six years has brought a change in provision of access to research resources in university libraries. During...
Robert Hazell, director of the Constitution Unit in the department of political science at the University College London, was awarded a CBE for services to constitutional reform.
Oxford and Cambridge universities are to follow in the footsteps of the great industrialists of the past by building homes for their workers. The famous model communities of Bourneville, New Earswick...
Inflation-busting pay rises for staff and a failure to recruit enough fee-paying students are the big financial risks facing universities in future, funding council chiefs warned this week amid...
Postdoctoral researchers have become the "lost tribes of the scientific world", who are used, abused and finally lost by universities, MPs heard this week. During a heated Westminster Hall discussion...
A geologist ought to have a good grasp of geography. But the short walk from the voiceover studio in Soho to the Covent Garden hotel lobby in which we meet stumps Iain Stewart. He arrives apologetic...
University leaders "do not expect" institutions to cut tuition fees or increase bursaries to fill course vacancies during clearing, it was claimed this week amid fears that some universities will...