Web threatens learning ethos
US expert condemns the ‘Google grab-bag’ of modern students’ study methods. Chloe Stothart reports Are you a Googlista or an avid Wikipedian? Then you may be surprised to find that your favourite...
US expert condemns the ‘Google grab-bag’ of modern students’ study methods. Chloe Stothart reports Are you a Googlista or an avid Wikipedian? Then you may be surprised to find that your favourite...
The answer to that is what a brand provides. Robert Mighall argues that far from being deceptive, alien and wasteful, branding is essential for telling the world what a university stands for and...
John Gill reports on a debate in cyberspace about the culture at America's privileged seat of learning
More and more academics are falling foul of university conduct codes through airing their grievances online. Phil Baty and Tony Tysome report "Get up - stand up! Keep the fight!" This was the...
? = Review forthcomingBUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT- The Manager's Tale: Stories of Managerial IdentityBy Patrick Reedy, lecturer in organisational behaviour, University of Nottingham. Ashgate, £55.00....
Students are increasingly 'transliterate', communicating across a range of technologies. Can academics keep up? Hannah Fearn asks
Joseph S. Nye is part of a long line of US academics who have helped shape foreign policy. A former Clinton adviser, now in the Obama camp, he tells Huw Richards how America can restore its tattered...
As the academy looks beyond the traditional roles played in assessment by essays and timed exams, new techniques are helping to turn students into active partners in their own learning. Rebecca...
Most people enter academe to delve into a subject, not to manage. To improve personnel administration, universities have beefed up HR departments with staff and strategies from outside campus. Hannah...
Staff at the University of Central Lancashire have delivered a damning indictment of the quality of their own students in a no-holds-barred internal discussion leaked to The Times Higher , writes...
On the eve of the Online Educa Berlin conference, The Times Higher asked delegates how IT will change the nature of academics' work in ten years' time. Academic lives will be changed for ever with...
Not that long ago, university press offices were manned by a couple of dons - now they are meaner machines, finds Harriet Swain In 1990, after more than 781 years, Cambridge University got its first...