An academic is to travel to the Eurovision Song Contest as an expert commentator. Phil Jackson, a senior lecturer in media at Edge Hill University, has been selected by the BBC to attend the contest...
Emma Henley, a student at Newport School of Art, Media and Design, will show a series of self-portraits entitled Newport Bus Station at the school's annual graduate show, which starts next week at...
A professor who has helped develop technology allowing law students to act on behalf of "virtual" clients is among this year's batch of Higher Education Academy senior fellows.Students of Paul Maharg...
HEA chief executive says that inspiration not consumerisation is key to university experience, says Rebecca Attwood
Vice-chancellor keen to boost post-16 attainment and foster university study, writes Melanie Newman
A warts-and-all account of student life has been sanctioned at the University of Kent. Its latest prospectus includes in-depth interviews with two students who take issue with the "glossy, self-...
Masters scholarship programmeScotland to boost links with USScotland's higher education institutions are offering more than 50 masters scholarships to US students to boost links between the nations....
A €21m pot is up for grabs from pan-European collaborations in humanities, writes Chloe Stothart
BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCILThe BBSRC and the French National Research Agency (ANR) have funded ten projects worth £6.5 million to boost European collaboration in systems...
Despite prevailing orthodoxies, creative writing is stealthily reviving liberal humanism, says Jonathan Taylor
In applauding students for their IT dexterity, do we encourage the mere collection of facts and intellectual inertia? asks Bob Simpson
Complementary therapies can and should be studied with scientific rigour, argues David Peters, so that medicine as a whole may benefit
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Lecturer develops a 'more enriching' way of dealing with student plagiarism. Rebecca Attwood explains
The report in last week's Times Higher Education that Lancaster University professor Geraint Johnes had been reprimanded for data protection breaches after responding to a mother's complaint about...