The University of Cambridge has set up its own small grants scheme for research in the arts, humanities and social sciences following the decision by two bodies to end similar programmes at the...
The number of student complaints referred to the Office of the Independent Adjudicator shot up by a third last year, according to figures released today.
As the EC releases details of its new university ranking system, Phil Baty welcomes the initiative but suggests it is too inward looking to make a global impact
The UK should look at the way other countries are “professionalising” teaching in higher education, mindful of the fact that "not everyone takes [existing] courses seriously".
The number of student visas issued over the next five years is to be cut by 260,000, according to the Home Office.
The real work and worth of the academy can’t be described by ‘business performance’ metrics and management-speak, argues Tim May
Steve Smith has been knighted in the Queen’s Birthday Honours after steering Universities UK through one of the higher education sector’s most turbulent periods.
The Treasury has ended the anomaly of being the only government department to lack a chief scientific adviser.
Constantine Sandis surveys a long-awaited work that aims for the moral-philosophical high ground
Brian Josephson is fascinated by a visualisation of numerals as more than just a counting system
The outlines of the age of foreign imperialism in China have long been well known: opium wars and unequal treaties; gunboat diplomacy and Christian missionaries; foreign spheres of influence; and the...
I've never met John Lukacs, but he sounds like the kind of man it would be fun to argue the toss with over a pint or two in the pub. Author of more than 30 books written over six decades, the...
Les Gofton considers a worldview of broken dreams and thwarted projects, tempered by hope
A few years ago, a colleague offered a new undergraduate module called Food and Eating in the Middle Ages, only to find herself teaching a 30-strong cohort of anorexics, bulimics and assorted food...
In principle, I enjoy books that mix autobiographical reflections with theory, and here Carol Gilligan offers an articulate musing on human development, morality and sex. But I found the pace rather...