More than 100,000 academics could be called out on strike as early as January next year, as the lecturers' unions dig in for what could become a long and militant pay campaign. Lecturers' union...
England's northern universities have recruited a big hitter from Cambridge University to head an alliance that aims to narrow the economic gap between North and South. David Secher, Cambridge's...
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Britain must avoid being left behind as India and China increase university funding, the House of Commons Education and Skills Committee warned this week. Barry Sheerman, chairman of the committee,...
The price of UK academic books has fallen in the past academic year, according to the Library and Information Statistics Unit at Loughborough University. The prices for UK-sourced titles have fallen...
The Joint Information Systems Committee has unveiled plans to invest an extra £80 million in education and research over the next two years. This includes the launch of a national e-learning advisory...
The 2005 Nobel Prize for Economics has been given to Robert Aumann and Thomas Schelling for work on game theory. Dr Schelling is an emeritus professor at the University of Maryland. Dr Aumann is an...
The higher education funding councils this week named more than 50 academics from overseas universities and institutes who will, for the first time, bring an international dimension to the strategic...
Furious vice-chancellors this week condemned research by a leading intelligence expert that concluded that UK universities were being used as recruiting grounds for extremists and terrorists. In a...
The standard of degrees awarded in the name of the Open University by almost 50 of its partner institutions around the world has been called into question. As The Times Higher went to press, the...
The director of an art and design college has retired after a storm over a colleague who left to join a rival institution, writes Jessica Shepherd. Vaughan Grylls, who has been at the helm of the...
Birkbeck, University of London, and the Open University, for decades spiritual homes to Britain's mature students, are to turn their attentions to school-leavers, because they have believe that they...
A group of senior Oxford academics has called for a new system of "checks and balances" on the way their university is run, including a "board of scrutiny" to keep a close eye on decisions made by...
British scientists claim to have discovered how their country can win more Olympic gold medals in sailing. Physicists from University College London and Reading University have uncovered the...
The Government's flagship national poll of student satisfaction was declared invalid this week by leading members of the steering group that helped design the survey. Harvey Goldstein, professor of...