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Oscar-winning film-making firm Aardman Animations is set to sign an exclusive deal with the University of the West of England to help design degree courses in film animation, writes Chloe Stothart....
Oscar-winning film-making firm Aardman Animations is set to sign an exclusive deal with the University of the West of England to help design degree courses in film animation, writes Chloe Stothart....
Some students are so obsessed with marks that they do not bother to read the comments written by tutors on their work, according to a new study, writes Chloe Stothart. Three quarters of students in a...
Microsoft supplement Published in The Times Higher on June 22 2007 The £80bn question Can universities equip 21st-century workers with critical thinking and industry-specific skills? Success...
Ever since the time of Aristotle, wine has played a supporting role in many academic discoveries. But one Brighton venue felt that scientists were not doing enough to uphold a noble tradition, writes...
It gave students a chance to catch up on their work - or, for some, to get some extra sleep - but now "reading week" is to end in one university's English department.The mid-semester week off from...
Commission proposals to establish European Research Area gloss over chronic underfunding, says European Universities Association. Chloe Stothart reports. University heads have voiced fears over the...
On an unprepossessing field in suburban Surrey, the ultimate academic grudge match has taken place, writes Chloe Stothart. Footballers from Bradford University's Peace Studies department took on the...
Lancaster John Schad will leave Loughborough University to become professor of modern literature at Lancaster University in September. As the author of a forthcoming experimental book on Jacques...
New universities in the same cities as elite Russell Group institutions have much lower intakes of students from working-class backgrounds than other former polytechnics, it has been revealed, writes...
Colleagues have paid tribute to an academic killed in an ambush in Afghanistan.Jackie Kirk, a 40-year-old adjunct professor of education at McGill University in Canada and a former research fellow at...
Lee Sanders will use his experience at Durham to bring Birmingham's ambitions for the future from concepts to reality
Study finds HE research has too narrow a focus and urges a more global approach, says Chloe Stothart
Scheme to be rolled out nationally after QAA pilot is heralded a success. Chloe Stothart reports
David Leslie, the champion racing-car driver who died in a plane crash on 30 March, was well known to fans of motorsport. But he has been less celebrated for his role at Swansea Metropolitan...
Colleagues have paid tribute to an "amazing" academic found dead earlier this month.Paul Wheeler, a senior lecturer in learning disability nursing at the University of Glamorgan, had recently been...