Collaboration in research a 'tick-box' trick
Geographer sparks debate over whether interdisciplinary work is really valuable or just an exercise to win funding. Rebecca Attwood reports Academics' moves to collaborate on research across...
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Novelist finds his art imitates life
The anonymous author of a satirical novel on modern universities has told The Times Higher of his amazement at discovering that spoof details and courses in his book have real-life equivalents....
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Close English departments for benefit of nation, says Naipaul
Sir Vidia Naipaul, winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize for Literature, called this week for university English literature departments to close. But academics shrugged off his attack on universities as...
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Next week
VOICE OF THE BEEHIVE Dusty Springfield is now recognised as a cultural icon worthy of academic scrutiny PLUS Laurie Taylor marvels at how sociology has become a proper grown-up subject
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For some, campus is still another country
Non-whites gain lower grades, complain of poor support and are less happy with university life. Tariq Tahir reports Students from minority ethnic groups not only obtain worse degree results than...
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Staff consider strike over their pay limbo
Lecturers' leaders at Stirling University are considering industrial action over the possible downgrading of up to 350 academic-related and administrative staff, writes Melanie Newman. The university...
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Drastic change and debts may prove discouraging
Hannah Osunsina believes black students' relatively poor degree performance reflects an ambivalent attitude to university. Ms Osunsina, who is about to enter her second year in law at Bedfordshire...
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£3m for adult learning
Salford University has been awarded almost £3 million to prepare the ground for the Government's commitment to a massive increase in the number of adults with higher-level skills, as set out in the...
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Girls favour university
Boys from state schools are less interested in going to university than girls at the same schools, according to a report from the Sutton Trust charity. The report, which is based on a survey of 2,400...
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Overdraft campaign
A student revolt against HSBC bank is gathering momentum, with nearly 3,000 joining a social network campaign group over the bank's decision to end interest-free graduate overdrafts. Thousands of...
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Infant skills static
The Government's early-years education policies have made no impact, according to new research. Despite the introduction of several initiatives over the past decade, there has been no improvement in...
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Headed for frustration
Academics agree to become heads of department hoping to gain more time for their own research but find themselves miserable and overworked trying to manage people and timetables, the British...
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£35m Strathclyde plan
Strathclyde University is to build a £35 million drug research centre at its Glasgow city centre site. The university will spend £ million on the Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical...
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Bold statement
A student has won a place at university after writing her application on a shop wall. Lara Roberts, 19, painted her personal statement in a derelict shopping centre before photographing it to send...
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Stress in new mothers
Mothers who cradle their baby to their right-hand side are displaying signs of extreme stress that could lead to depression, a Durham University study has suggested. The Durham researchers suggest...