An academic's success in landing the right job and climbing the career ladder should depend on his or her ability to link teaching and research, the Higher Education Academy said this week, writes...
GlaxoSmithKline has netted two top Oxbridge researchers and more academics could follow as the company moves to narrow the university-industry divide. Paul Matthews, director of the Centre for...
Sir Alan Langlands' report on graduate recruitment is calling for additional bursaries to boost uptake in medicine, law and teaching. Paul Hill reports Universities and employers could boost...
Ministers and funding council chiefs were poised this week to give universities a £40 million funding boost to help cover the costs of teaching part-time students, writes Paul Hill. Just weeks after...
Academics will need to change the way they teach to take account of students from increasingly diverse backgrounds, according to a researcher leading a study into learning at university. Chris...
When the Welsh rugby team take on the All Blacks in Cardiff this weekend, sport historians will cast their minds back 100 years to a pivotal moment in Welsh history. It was then that Wales ...
A third of company directors refuse to recruit graduates from universities that are at the bottom of newspaper league tables, writes Jessica Shepherd. Research for the Institute of Directors reveals...
University entrepreneurs should wait up to a decade before spinning off companies - far longer than is the common practice now, venture capitalists have said. Fledgling companies should be kept under...
Unesco officials aim to bring Israeli and Palestinian academics to a round-table meeting next year to explore ways to revitalise universities in the Occupied Territories. They are convinced that a...
The US Government has ordered the country's universities to give law enforcement agencies easy access to their e-mail networks and other electronic communications. Universities have promptly sued to...
Turkish police have put university students under surveillance after the Interior Ministry ordered all student activities to be monitored. The measures include spot checks on students in bars and...
International relations officers from Russian universities are to address student security after last month's murder of a Peruvian student in an apparently racist attack in Voronezh. Andrei Fursenko...
The first Arab dean of an Israeli institution has taken up his post at the University of Haifa, the target of an abortive academic boycott urged by activists in the Association of University Teachers...
An Australian university has disputed claims that concerns over academic freedom threaten Warwick University's plans for a campus in Singapore. Warwick and the University of New South Wales were...
France's National Science Research Centre, the CNRS, has been accused of misogyny after it appointed only one woman to its new board of 21 trustees. Researchers have begun a petition in protest...