It costs up to £21,000 a year to teach a single Oxford University student, a paper from a leading Oxbridge-based think-tank was expected to reveal this week. In a paper expected to dismiss government...
The quality watchdog's mantra that its fledgling audit regime is a "light touch, not soft touch" was underlined this week when a report revealed that just two of the first eight institutions to be...
If you want to play the media game it's best to set some rules, but don't always expect to win, warns Nick Saunders. Academics have a love-hate relationship with the media. The ambivalence runs deep...
Sussex University is pushing the boat out by advertising 46 academic vacancies in one go. Pat Leon looks at a trend in advertising lots of posts at once to signal universities' expansion plans....
Christopher Johnson, 50 Job advertised in The Times Higher , June 23, 2003 Motorvariation Head/Professor of Industrial Design £40,176 - £45,072 / £40,176 - £55,858 per annum Slipping between the...
It's often hard for fine-art students to see a clear career path. David Butler and Dawn Weatherston led a project to help them visualise their future. Degree disciplines are highly transferable....
What is your experience of teaching? Pat Leon asks teachers how they manage. Name : Alison Phipps Age : 36 Job : Director, Graduate School for Arts and Humanities, University of Glasgow Salary : £38,...
Lecturers' leaders claim that academic staff are being forced to pay with their jobs after Bournemouth University's managers lost almost £1 million in a property venture. The Bournemouth branch of...
Music professors have launched a campaign to clarify copyright rules that, they say, are hampering their research and holding up publication of books and papers. They are calling on publishers to...
Fear of animal-rights protests played a key role in preventing UK scientists joining an international effort to put mice in space. The student-led Mars gravity biosatellite programme will involve US...
The Royal Society is to consider whether to take disciplinary action against fellows who spoke out in last week's Times Higher against Baroness Greenfield's nomination for a fellowship, writes Anna...
The significance of sustainable development for UK universities was driven home this week with the launch of an action plan that puts compliance on their agenda. Charles Clarke, the education...
The baffling world of quantum mechanics will flicker into life when a theoretical physicist and artist turn a physics department into a giant piece of public art. The Mile End Road buildings of Queen...
The government should help foot the bill for security at universities under threat from animal rights extremists, MPs said this week. In the first of its new "science question time" sessions with...
Richard Davies, the vice-chancellor of Swansea University, has admitted that four departments he is proposing to close are all of good quality and are recruiting well, writes Tony Tysome. The...