A row about a redefinition of academic freedom has escalated in Canada, with the head of the representative body for academics condemning the document as "a full-scale attack on academic freedom like...
'The young have fewer preconceptions' - Will Self talks to Jack Grove about his new professorship
Universities are training grounds for engaged citizens, not terrorists, says Louise Richardson
The spray-tanned, dyed cliches of Essex fascinate and appal. In his latest play, David Eldridge reminds us of another side of the county, writes Mark O'Thomas
ManchesterThe Devil's WallIdris Khan's new installation, to be seen in the UK for the first time at the Whitworth Art Gallery (until 13 May), draws inspiration from the pilgrimage to Mecca. At its...
Other Stories: Queering the University Art CollectionStanley & Audrey Burton GalleryUniversity of Leeds February to 5 MayBernard Meninsky's Mother and Child, painted in 1919, is a touching image...
One of our leading scholars, Professor F.R. Beavis, of the Department of English and Related Studies for Impact, has announced that in future he will acknowledge the co-authorship of research that he...
Impact assessments will shape behaviours - but not necessarily in desired directions, argue Katherine Smith and Nasar Meer
Researchers, industry and NHS must deliver results, Academy of Medical Sciences' head tells Paul Jump
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With novel credentials being developed and employers seeing the value of low-cost study based on open courseware, Jon Marcus asks if the bricks-and-mortar elite will end up on the wrong side of...
Physicist Athene Donald's pleasure in people-watching may owe something to a childhood spent observing birds of all kinds as they soared over city heaths and icy coastal mudflats
• Two teenagers ruffled feathers at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills by bringing a legal challenge against this year's tuition-fee hike. Lawyers for Callum Hurley, from Peterborough...
The German media have found themselves irresistibly attracted to a student who wants to turn flirting into a subject for academic analysis by introducing his own seminar on "live flirting training"...
These striking wire-mesh sculptures of naked, falling figures hanging from the ceiling often attract attention and comment from students and visitors at the University of Sunderland's automotive...