'Safety net' funding has strings attached
Next year's funding safety net will come with strings attached following a decision by the Higher Education Funding Council for England. Meeting last week for their preliminary post-budget...
Next year's funding safety net will come with strings attached following a decision by the Higher Education Funding Council for England. Meeting last week for their preliminary post-budget...
‘Astonishing demand’ to suspend book launch over claims that its essays ‘delegimitise trans people’ shows activists have been ‘emboldened’, say editors
Hideo Ohno urges a level-headed approach as university seeks final green light in high-stakes excellence scheme
Academia is often depicted as a calling, but for those who heed it, the joy of doing something they love is often crushed by heavy teaching and admin loads and an unceasing pressure to make a ‘...
As arguments for cost sharing in England advance, questions linger over what September changes mean for government-graduate balance
Project 101 based around classroom observations and development of home-grown educational resources
Initiative intended to check office requirements redesigned after privacy panic
Academic freedom has always depended on how well universities satisfy the goals of politicians and demands of the economy.That was the viewpoint put forward by Sir Peter Scott, professor of higher...
A reductive approach to social behaviour is bad news for democracy, James Garvey writes
When universities accept donations from entities with particular ideological stances, are they sacrificing academic freedom on the altar of Mammon?
The 2028 exercise’s measurement of the quality of research environments will account for a quarter of overall marks. But what exactly does quality look like? Can it really be measured? And are there...
Leaked draft of summertime power grab has spooked scientists, but most admit country’s network of 76 institutes needs reform
How to deal with shame? I was a little homosexual "queer boy" in the 1950s and 1960s, and started my coming-out journey in 1966 - to family, friends, colleagues, students and ultimately in the...
Their value previously unquestioned, Nordic universities have tended to enjoy happy relations with governments despite close state control over them. But a surge of support for populist parties in...
Universities anticipate much greater scrutiny of teaching outcomes, potentially even ‘peer review’ of lectures