Sleep deprivation, dirt and a craving for unhealthy food are some of the things one expects to experience at a music festival. But visitors to the Secret Garden Party in Cambridgeshire last month...
Scientists from the UK are to work with universities in Africa to strengthen research into science and health on the continent. The University of Liverpool and its Liverpool School of Tropical...
A new centre will allow members of the Royal Navy to take advanced academic degrees and pursue research. The Centre of Excellence in Naval Oceanographic Research and Education, at the University of...
Experts at the University of Cambridge's Language Centre are giving their support to a national programme aimed at motivating young people to study languages. The centre is a partner in the Open...
The University of Gloucestershire's Centre for Active Learning in Cheltenham was designed to embrace a philosophy of collaboration between students and staff.A consultation process in 2003-04 led to...
Professor faced multiple charges for material vital to undergraduate texts, writes Melanie Newman
Frontline academics must find common ground with generals, says paper. Hannah Fearn reports
Directors of university knowledge-transfer offices earn as much as leading professors, a study has revealed.Researchers at Kingston University have carried out the first survey of pay and incentives...
Barack Obama displayed his everyman touch when he moved to defuse an escalating race row by inviting a black professor and a white police officer for a beer at the White House. Henry Louis Gates Jr,...
University denies claim in BDO report that decisions were made recklessly. Melanie Newman reports
Degrees in social work are viewed as being "difficult to fail" - a reputation that is unacceptable, a select committee of MPs has said.The Children, Schools and Families Committee said that witnesses...
The introduction to a high-profile paper was largely lifted from a 2007 article. Zoe Corbyn reports
Many universities are falling foul of do's and don'ts in their own guidelines. Melanie Newman reports
A report advising UK and US universities to work together to retain their international primacy has been criticised for its imperialistic overtones.The report, Higher Education and Collaboration in a...
Nine months of evidence-gathering came to this: on 2 August, the IUSS Committee published its state-of-the-sector analysis of higher education. Times Higher Education staff report on its findings