The week in higher education – 12 March 2015
The vice-chancellor of the University of Bolton has written to all staff to reassure them of the value of Bolton’s “development programme”, which will involve all 700 employees being put up in a...
The vice-chancellor of the University of Bolton has written to all staff to reassure them of the value of Bolton’s “development programme”, which will involve all 700 employees being put up in a...
“Nothing short of a scandal.” That was the verdict from Margaret Hodge, the Labour MP and chair of the Public Accounts Committee, on the government’s controls over public spending at private colleges...
Lord Giddens joins nine students and a fox in teaching experiment
Guiding the clever to wisdom’s shoresI was fascinated by the quote from Tony Blair in 1999 promoting 50 per cent entry in UK higher education: “In today’s world there is no such thing as too clever....
Beat thatReanimated animal hearts and a series of musical pendulums originally developed for Icelandic singer Björk are among the exhibits at a university gallery in the Republic of Ireland. The...
A series of high-profile research scandals within social psychology have led to unjustified attacks on the whole academic discipline. Wolfgang Stroebe and Miles Hewstone declare that the majority...
It’s not too early to tell who is to blame for the unnecessary death of millions, says Kerry Brown
Tom Palaima muses on truth’s troubled relationship to the tales we tell about the heart of war
The Dominican Blackfriars founded St Andrew's monastery in Norfolk between 1307 and 1310. The friary was purchased by the city in 1540 during the reign of Henry VIII and was made into "a fayre and...
It’s a case of Salem’s lots and lots as the bloodsucker phenomenon bites the American academy. Jon Marcus reports
Royal Geographical Society head refutes claims of field's demise. Donna Bowater reports
Brussels, 05 Nov 2003 The European Commission has published two calls for proposals in the area of 'food quality and safety' under the Sixth Framework Programme activity of the same name. This is one...
Brussels, 05 Nov 2003 The European Commission has published two calls for proposals in the area of 'food quality and safety' under the Sixth Framework Programme activity of the same name. This is one...
A mistake in the scoring of the principal university admissions exam has thrown the whole process into chaos only days before US high school students were to learn whether they had been admitted to...
Universities are starting to bolster their international offices in response to British Council predictions earlier this year of a huge increase in foreign demand for higher education. Sheffield...