The absurdities of the jargon and "management-speak" in higher education were exposed in a light-hearted session at the Association of University Administrators (AUA) annual conference.Words such as...
Senior official rejects claim that RAE successor's use of metrics will benefit elite, writes John Gill
Warnings a decade ago about the impact of cutbacks went unheeded, writes Hannah Fearn
The Chapel of St Salvator at the University of St Andrews is a superb example of Scottish Gothic architecture. It was built in 1450 as part of Bishop James Kennedy's College of the Holy Saviour....
President-elect discusses creative spark, a future for soft sciences and other challenges with Zoë Corbyn
Fears as right-wing critic of West takes top job at Moscow State centre. Melanie Newman reports
Students at the University of Maryland, Baltimore defied efforts by state legislators to stop them showing a pornographic film, claiming that the intrusion represented an attack on academic freedom....
IndiaForeign institutions might get inForeign universities may be allowed to set up shop in India if proposals made by a committee considering curriculum reform are heeded. The committee, led by Yash...
Tanya Ovenden-Hope welcomes the Leitch report's model for higher education provision in further education colleges
Peer review is no more or less subjective than metrics in measuring research quality. We abandon it at our peril, says Claire Donovan
The AHRC is so aligned with the government agenda of impact and knowledge transfer that it betrays its very raison d'etre, Peter Barry argues
Barack Obama's stratospheric rise from political obscurity to the White House is well documented, but now his influence might go beyond earthly boundaries. John Holdren, the US president's chief...
Research councils assert 'right' to see evidence of what is produced with their cash. Zoë Corbyn writes
Vice-chancellors and other senior managers from at least eight universities have chosen to forgo their annual pay rises.