An irreconcilable breakdown in relations among members of the University of Abertay Dundee’s senior management team is behind the suspension of its principal and his deputy, Times Higher Education...
Uta Kornmeier muses on the unexpected unearthing in Berlin of some remarkable survivors of Nazi cultural vandalism
LondonFrankensteinMary Shelley's Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, published anonymously in 1818 when she was just 19, remains one of the archetypal statements of anxiety about modernity,...
Our Head of Overseas Recruitment, Geraldine Transept, has refused to apologise for an open letter addressed to potential EU students that would appear to encourage a degree of duplicity.In the letter...
Branch campuses have had their problems, but they still offer exceptional opportunities to those who get them right
Tim Birkhead ponders the optimal size and location of the conference venue
Amid tight budgets and uncertainty, Nerc's head looks to cost efficiency to protect its mission. Paul Jump reports
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Revenge is a dish best served cold, not hot and steaming. But the adage appears to have been ignored by a maths professor at California State University, Northridge, who is accused of urinating on a...
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The best-selling author Reynolds Price was originally appointed to a three-year teaching post at Duke University in 1958, a contract that had "no chance of being extended".He died last month after 53...
The academy is under unprecedented threat in the United Kingdom. The Government is cutting support for teaching in higher education by 80 per cent, and forcing universities to charge up to £9,000 per...
The Higher Education Academy's consultation on the UK Professional Standards Framework for Teaching and Supporting Learning recently closed. The review was undertaken in part because take-up of the...
Two strengths of the original standards framework were its brevity and its ability to be implemented in differing higher education contexts. The proposed changes to the standard descriptors imply a...