A speech by Vince Cable on distributing cuts to the science budget came under fierce attack from vice-chancellors last week for "fundamental errors" and its potential to damage the UK's reputation.In...
CSU chancellor calls for sector to show restraint over tuition fee rises, reports John Morgan in Paris
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Rumours that Poppleton might follow in the steps of BPP and become a "for-profit" university have been vigorously dispelled by our vice-chancellor.In a strongly worded statement unanimously described...
If Jane Austen can flout the rules of grammar so can I, writes Sally Feldman
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Christoph Bode's love of the Beach Boys has only been deepened by Brian Wilson's late-career deconstruction of his own California dreaming
The idea of what a university should be is changing in India. This clearly emerges in the concept note for the 2010 Universities for Innovation Bill. This seeks to facilitate the creation of a...
A campaigning academic expert on organised crime in Italy has died.Tom Behan was born into an Irish working-class family in London on 22 June 1957. He attended school in Middlesex but spent almost a...
New collaborative links between Britain and the subcontinent will bring technological gains to both, writes Cat Davies
It is both inaccurate and uncharitable to suggest that today's undergraduates are "deferring responsibility and delaying maturity" ("No creative buzz from the drones", 2 September).The Council of...
The desirability of the relationship between undergraduate education and the national economy has been acknowledged in the UK since at least the 1963 Robbins report. It is often forgotten that the...
"Just a few rotten apples?" (2 September) accurately and fully addresses the three major issues frequently associated with US for-profit institutions of "higher learning": academic integrity; student...
At the risk of sending Times Higher Education's readership to sleep in the calm before the new academic year's storm, I would like to urge that fundamental changes to the way that universities are...