It sounds innocuous enough - a short piece in a university newsletter celebrating an honorary doctorate awarded to a visiting dignitary several months ago.But because the dignitary in question is the...
The editors of 45 international academic journals have asked for their titles to be removed from a controversial new journal ranking system.In a joint editorial titled "Journals under threat: A joint...
Study says interdisciplinary researchers might lose out as their work is less cited, writes Zoe Corbyn
Admissions tutors favour GCE students - and they do better at university, writes Rebecca Attwood
£6K awards will help 5,000 apprentices enter higher education. Melanie Newman reports
US-style community-orientated learning rather than reform of university admission policies is the key to broadening access to higher education, the Shadow Minister for Vocational Education told the...
Tara Brabazon on competing visions of ownership, content and scholarship
In June 2008, we reported on the rights and obligations of employers in relation to Army reservists. However, this is just one area in which a right to time off from work may arise. This article...
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Britain's one-year masters is proving a sticking point in the Bologna Process, but the equivalence issue is raising difficult questions about length of study for other degrees, too. Hannah Fearn...
Forget those scrawled annotations: Peter Barry believes that students learn far more about how to craft an essay from a few minutes of face-to-face dialogue
John Gilbey was on first-name terms with Nobel laureates and all the other 'campers' at Science Foo, a three-day intellectual free-for-all that left him exhausted but elated
Look out, America - The Bologna Process is set to make the UK and Europe into a higher education superpower
Einstein was no saint, but nor was he a womanising, avaricious bumbler, says Graham Farmelo