Edinburgh University, which has some 1,000 researchers on fixed-term contracts, has broken new ground by agreeing a partnership project with the three campus unions to manage their move to permanent...
The latest official figures for success rates for research council grant applications reveal varied fortunes for researchers. While researchers in some fields have benefited from improved chances of...
Staff complain of control culture among those at the top, Jessica Shepherd reports Lecturers blame a perceived decline in academic freedom on moves to establish a "management culture" in universities...
It's sweltering in the Manchester University psychology department office and I am about to get kitted out like Darth Vader. First, I pull on the black "data glove" with electronic sensors along the...
A career in academe may become the preserve of the rich, research suggests. Mark Rodgers reports Future academics are likely to come predominantly from wealthy backgrounds as fear of debt deters...
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Oxford boasts success as 37.8% fail at Greenwich, reports Olga Wojtas More than a quarter of would-be secondary teachers fail to qualify at some universities, according to teacher training league...
Rarely displayed early 15th-century medieval French manuscripts will be displayed alongside one another for the first time as part of a project at Sheffield University to develop innovative ways of...
Academics could play a role in preventing racist attacks by rescheduling lectures to avoid students being isolated as they travel to and from university, suggests research, writes Olga Wojtas. A...
Researchers in social policy have sent a clear message to referees of the 2008 research assessment exercise that their work should be judged primarily on how accessible it is, not on which journal it...
Tax rejig could prompt a rethink on higher education policy- but not in Scotland New Liberal Democrats' tax policies could mean an end to their opposition to tuition fees, senior party members said...
Scottish Liberal Democrats could soon find themselves at odds with their English colleagues over tuition fees. As party leaders in Westminster consider dropping their anti-tuition fees policy,...
Stephen Williams, who became the Liberal Democrat Higher Education Spokesman five months ago, will find himself in the hot seat if his party ditches its commitment to abolishing university tuition...
A group of professors defended centralisation plans that led a president to resign. Jon Marcus reports A group of Harvard University professors has concluded that President Lawrence Summers was right...
University lecturers in Belarus could be charged with corruption under a new law signed last week by Belarusian President Alaksandr Lukashenka. The law expands the list of professions whose members...