Appointments - 14 August 2014
The latest higher education appointments
The latest higher education appointments
A former colleague pays tribute to Nobel prizewinner Sir Harold Kroto, who has died aged 76
The government has awarded more than £140 million to develop a new Education and Cultural Quarter in London at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park
The latest video in a series of short self-help programmes takes a sympathetic look at mental health issues
Publication not always relevant to business success, industry and sector figures argue
Big Data InstituteUCL pledges to retain open accessUniversity College London says its partnership with the huge publishing and information company Elsevier on a new Big Data Institute will not affect...
Report calls for sandwich courses and subsidised work experience. David Matthews writes
UCL professors say 'major restructuring' will be needed to sustain UK sector. Paul Jump reports
PLoS One backs a validation initiative that will duplicate experiments. Elizabeth Gibney reports
Technology Strategy Board aims to yield economic harvest with sector's help. Elizabeth Gibney reports
An academic who has contributed to investigations of major oil industry disasters - including the fire on the Piper Alpha rig in the North Sea that killed more than 100 people in 1988 - has been made...
In this age of austerity, we need to fund excellence, say David Price and Stephen Caddick