Janet Beer, the new Oxford Brookes vice-chancellor, has a strong record in continuing professional development. Janet Beer, named this week as the next vice-chancellor of Oxford Brookes University,...
* Anton Muscatelli , professor of political economy and vice-principal of Glasgow University, has been named principal of Heriot-Watt University. * Oxford University has appointed: Ian Goldin ,...
A very public row has erupted at the merged academic union as one joint head attacks the other, suggesting that this year's pay dispute was mishandled. Phil Baty reports. Open warfare has broken out...
The timing could hardly have been worse, writes Phil Baty. In the week that Manmohan Singh, the Indian Prime Minister, flew in to promote his country's cultural and educational links with Britain and...
Academics joining old universities could see their retirement age rise above 65 as the Universities Superannuation Scheme launches a major consultation exercise to meet increased pension costs. The...
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Academics, vice-chancellors and learned societies all agree - the RAE must go. But there's no consensus about what should replace it, The Times Higher finds. Two fifths of academics would cancel the...
The expert group looking at how to use metrics to judge research quality in the arts and humanities said this week that half the judgment should be based on peer review of research outputs, after...
Replacing the research assessment exercise with any of the models proposed in the Government's metrics consultation could crush academic freedom and increase pressure on academics to change their...
The Wellcome Trust, the UK's biggest research charity, this week came out in favour of a wholly quantitative metrics-based research assessment system to replace the current exercise. Mark Walport,...
The Treasury is keen to use a new metrics-based research assessment system that would further concentrate research funding, potentially creating a top tier of no more than ten institutions, vice-...
Government attempts to reform the research assessment exercise "lack ambition" and should do far more to support applied research, employers have warned. In what could prove a highly influential...
Israel's Education Minister has warned that UK lecturers could fuel anti-Semitism on campus. Yuli Tamir cautioned that a boycott of Israeli universities by British academics would encourage anti-...
Liverpool University scientist Alexis Nzila was recognised by the Royal Society this week for advancing discoveries into treatments for malaria. Dr Nzila was presented with the Pfizer Award, which...
Oxford University is setting up a professorship in Buddhist studies after a major endowment from Toyko-based organisation Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai. Martin Goodman of the board of Oriental studies said: "...