Thirty-one members of the UK eUniversity's staff, including the sales and marketing director, were paid performance-related bonuses of between 10 and 50 per cent of their salary while running the...
Brain drain or brain gain? What's really happening? Exclusive new research. Also Stefan Halper and Jonathan Clarke: Is the neo-conservatives' time up? On the money : The Cambridge Economic History of...
Study shows current system works. Anna Fazackerley reports. Academics should stop complaining about the pressures of the peer-review system and start working to educate the public about its...
The editor of a new reader-friendly version of James Joyce's Ulysses has conceded defeat to the author's grandson Stephen in the battle for Molly Bloom's apostrophes. A New Reader's Edition of...
As many as a third of all undergraduates could be plagiarising from the internet, a new study suggests. In a paper for next week's inaugural Plagiarism Advisory Service (Pas) conference, Fintan...
One of the UK's top brain surgeons this week attacked the Government for failing to defend animal research at Oxford University as evidence of a growing campaign by animal rights extremists came to...
Buckingham University, Britain's only private university, is gearing up to recruit more high-profile academics after the capture of Alan Smithers from Liverpool. Terence Kealey, the vice-chancellor,...
An online "identity parade" of looted ancient statues has been compiled by UK academics in the hope of tracing treasures missing from archaeological sites and monuments in Albania, writes Paul Hill....
Key elements of the planned ten-year reform of GCSE and A levels could be brought forward to help universities distinguish between the best candidates and to deter institutions from setting their own...
The Conservative Party will abolish all university tuition fees and abandon the government's 50 per cent participation target if it wins the next general election, it was confirmed this week. In an...
The declining social and economic status of academics, combined with increasing regulation, may be to blame for falling numbers of male lecturers, although this could be opening opportunities for...
The closing of the gender gap is "barely visible" at a management level and men in their mid-30s are still more likely to be fast-tracked through the ranks, says Hilary Pilkington. Professor...
Women are outnumbering men in medical schools across the UK as male students continue to turn away from a career in medicine, a British Medical Association study has found. A report on the demography...
One of higher education's top ambassadors, Roderick Floud, has been branded a "fat cat" over his appointment as president of London Metropolitan University immediately after his retirement as its...
Ghost suits and puppetry skills are helping Stirling University researchers reintroduce the Great Bustard to Britain 175 years after it died out here. Patrick Osborne, senior lecturer in...