A student has won a battle to clear her name after being subjected to a child-abuse investigation prompted by her former social work professor. Earlier this month, a Newfoundland court awarded Wanda...
A little after dawn last Thursday, the first strikers appeared outside the front entrance of RMIT University in Melbourne. A swelling knot of students and lecturers hoisted placards and handed out...
The graffiti daubed on the side of the library building overlooking the National University's Che Guevara Square is blunt: "Don't vote in the referendum - revolution is the solution." But today, it...
Many academics see themselves as mavericks who have to go their own way. This outdated view is bad for everyone, says Bob Brecher Are you thinking of ignoring your manager and ploughing your own...
Computing-related research staff are in the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology's sights as it joins Queen Mary in a bid to boost teams and pull in research council cash. Pat...
An in-your-face brand promotion is just one way institutions are preparing for the introduction of market forces by beefing up marketing muscle. Michael North reports. Marketing director Sandy Malone...
The University of the M25 is an oasis of good news in a sector full of doom and gloom. Ted Prince, its new spin doctor, starts a monthly column on the sunny side of life in higher education by...
Admissions exams are on the rise in the UK, especially for subjects such as medicine. But Yasmin Anwar finds students and academics are sceptical. On a rainy day in January, 1,400 young people from...
There is much talk about equality in universities, but how many male academics actually take on the role of primary carer in the home? Caroline Davis reports. Becoming a full-time dad was never part...
I used to think that male academics didn't do children. And, if they did, they acted as if they were in permanent denial about their dark secret. I remember the time when a young colleague...
An instant history of the Iraq war does not mean university presses put cash before scholarship, says Walter Ellis. Academic publishers in the US have entered the market. Realising that there is a...
An in-your-face brand promotion is just one way institutions are preparing for the introduction of market forces by beefing up marketing muscle. Michael North reports. Marketing director Sandy Malone...
The University of the M25 is an oasis of good news in a sector full of doom and gloom. Ted Prince, its new spin doctor, starts a monthly column on the sunny side of life in higher education by...
Admissions exams are on the rise in the UK, especially for subjects such as medicine. But Yasmin Anwar finds students and academics are sceptical. On a rainy day in January, 1,400 young people from...
There is much talk about equality in universities, but how many male academics actually take on the role of primary carer in the home? Caroline Davis reports. Becoming a full-time dad was never part...