QAA seeks new quality development director
Agency head Anthony McClaran elaborates on what the role will entail. Plus the latest higher education jobs and appointments

Agency head Anthony McClaran elaborates on what the role will entail. Plus the latest higher education jobs and appointments

What can the UK learn from the uncapped student numbers ‘experiment’ that is already in full swing Down Under?

Chants, used positively by Tottenham Hotspur fans, must not be appropriated by anti-Semites looking for an excuse to tout hatred, says Emma Rees

The ASA and QAA may be too passive, argues study that found misleading claims in prospectuses

Sea change - Winners and losers in Australia’s uncapped student numbers race

United StatesStanford’s Steele heads to BerkeleyA highly ranked university in California has poached a senior academic from one of its nearest rivals. It was announced last week that Claude Steele, a...

Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere

We speak to the pro vice‑chancellor for research and innovation at Newcastle University

One of the leading Shakespearean scholars of his generation has died

Student recruitmentSalford revises ad-spend dataLast week Times Higher Education reported that the University of Salford had trebled its spending on marketing to prospective students between 2010-11...

National Institute for Health ResearchPublic Health Research programmeAward winner: Helen ElseyInstitution: University of LeedsValue: £464,761Understanding the impacts of care farms on health and...
Further to Richard M. S. Wilson’s letter (9 January) on the confusing plethora of titles adopted by UK universities to identify academic staff, it is worth remembering that the former colleges of...
What does it say about the status of teaching (and, by extension, students) in some universities when a news report refers to academics being “freed” from “the burden of teaching” and “protected”...
I could not agree more with Geoffrey Crossick that the arts and humanities are “way behind” the sciences in the open access debate (“Digital age of opportunity for the monograph”, News, 16 January)....
Your reviewer of my book Was Hitler a Darwinian? Disputed Questions in the History of Evolutionary Theory (Books, 16 January) might well secure an appointment with her optometrist.She claims that...