University courses feared to be vulnerable to closure, such as mathematics and the sciences, saw a rise in the number of undergraduates admitted this year, according to the latest figures. Data from...
The research assessment exercise is a major cause of the bullying taking place at universities, a survey on bullying by The Times Higher suggests. One in ten university staff who responded to the...
Wendy Hall, head of the School of Electronics and Computer Science at Southampton University, has been named an Inspiring Woman in 2005 by the Fawcett Society. The Fawcett campaign celebrates women's...
Ron Harrison, fired as chief executive of the Student Loans Company in 1995 for alleged gross misconduct, has won more than £35,000 compensation - five years after his death, writes Olga Wojtas....
Britain's business schools face increasingly fierce competition from abroad for MBA students as overseas governments plough millions of pounds into domestic MBA programmes. UK schools fear that...
Olivia Corcoran describes herself as a New Age academic but without the scented candles and incense sticks, writes Jessica Shepherd. "I'm New Age in that I'm one of a growing breed of academics who...
Warwick University set out to renegotiate plans for a £300 million campus in Singapore despite a decision by its governing council not to proceed with the original proposal because of staff concerns...
A new service links researchers with authors who want real science in their fiction. Anna Fazackerley tagged along on a 'blind date' to see the results When she began her first novel about the "...
Lancaster University's pioneering scheme to ensure that PhD vivas are not open to abuse has proved a success despite initially being condemned by academics as unnecessary and insulting. Concerns have...
Plymouth University this week enhanced its growing reputation as one of the UK's most innovative teaching institutions with the launch of four Centres of Excellence in Teaching and Learning. The only...
The Government is to cut its flagship widening participation budget by more than a fifth over the next two years, raising doubts about its commitment to improving access to universities. Aimhigher, a...
A clearer picture of how much it costs universities to teach each subject will be at the heart of a revamp of the £4 billion teaching funding system, it emerged this week. The initiative, which...
The UK should be wary of following the North American example of setting a national aptitude test for university admissions, a senior official at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and...
Familiar names top the lists but others have reason to cheer, especially in belles-lettres, says Martin Ince Harvard is the big winner in the last of The Times Higher faculty-level analyses of world...
This table [see link to table below] shows the world's most productive non-university institutions in the social sciences. It covers institutions with more than 5,000 papers in the Thomson Scientific...