The four-day week: will it catch on in academia?
Some institutions now follow the model, but experts question whether it will benefit a sector where 24/7 culture is ingrained
Some institutions now follow the model, but experts question whether it will benefit a sector where 24/7 culture is ingrained
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The Times Higher dominates the shortlist for the first Education Journalist of the Year Awards. John O'Leary, the editor, has been nominated for the sustained contribution to education journalism...
Students who fail to make the grade at A level will be able to text-message their way to a higher education place under a new clearing system at Middlesex University, writes Paul Hill. The university...
What does the boss from hell of a paper merchants in Slough have to do with the new Higher Education Minister, Bill Rammell?, writes Paul Hill. Before Mr Rammell became honourable member for Harlow,...
Backpackers' growing interest in the Outback is fuelling an expansion of Australian studies in the UK, writes Paul Hill. The Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, based at King's College London, is...
Students will join pigeons, lions and a 19th-century naval hero as residents of one of London's most famous spots next year under plans to turn offices in Trafalgar Square into halls of residence,...
The campus vote tipped the balance in five out of ten marginal seats identified by The Times Higher as being vulnerable to a swing in academics' and students' allegiance, writes Paul Hill. The...
Graduates shouldered an average debt of £13,501 last year - a rise of £1,432 compared with students who left university the year before, writes Paul Hill. Barclays' Annual Graduate Survey found that...
The Privy Council looks set to be asked to endorse Anglia University as the new name for the last UK institution to include the word "polytechnic" in its title, writes Paul Hill. David Tidmarsh, vice...
You may gripe about pay and work, but academics take heart - at least one student in your seminar room probably wants to be you, writes Paul Hill. When hundreds of students across the country were...
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....
The head of one of India's largest pharmaceutical companies has established a £250,000 bursary scheme to help students from developing countries to study at Cambridge University, writes Paul Hill....
'Co-payment' system is likely to remain, reports Paul Hill from the party conference A Conservative U-turn on tuition fees and the expansion of higher education looks likely despite the wrangling...
Minister wants to keep up overseas drive, Paul Hill writes from Labour's conference The full weight of Downing Street could be put behind a new push to promote British universities to overseas...