Is now the time for a full embrace of lifelong learning?
Universities recognise the need for flexible and continuing education but are still seeking the most appropriate strategy. Anna McKie reports
Universities recognise the need for flexible and continuing education but are still seeking the most appropriate strategy. Anna McKie reports
Professor says country will lose its lead on overseas recruitment and predicts ‘major forking of the way’ between Australia and UK
The UK’s TEF experience should be a warning to Australia’s re-elected government not to settle for empty accountability, says William Locke
Continuous retraining is widely seen as the answer to the coming job losses caused by automation and artificial intelligence. But are universities the best places to provide it? And are their courses...
Formulating and implementing a strategic plan is core to the modern university leader’s job description. But amid complaints that such documents are vacuous, generic and irrelevant to the wider...
Pioneer of the genetics of hearing talks about how her research interests have been shaped by wine and music – and how she would cope with deafness
Early career social scientists should be entitled to extensive support from their university long after attaining their doctorate, study says
Analysis of university-city performance shows UK’s capital has a lot to lose if EU exit is botched
In our annual survey of vice-chancellors’ pay, which reveals double-digit hikes for some and more modest rises for others, Simon Baker examines how remuneration committees make their decisions amid...
When the government introduced new policies for higher education fees, it ignored warnings that repayment rates would be much lower than it had claimed. Now that it has acknowledged those lower...
Funding, staffing and alternative providers among issues to be considered as part of £5 million initiative
Academics need to recognise that a linear career progression is no longer the norm, says William Locke