The 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster has generated a flurry of academic interest. This year's annual Contemporary Ukrainian Studies lecture in Cambridge was given by Alla...
The alleged rape of a black female student by white athletes at the elite Duke University has raised painful questions about race, sex and social inequality in US higher education. As lawyers for the...
The Indian Government is facing protests over its plans to reserve per cent of all university places - including at the elite Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) - for students from socially "...
Sweden faces a shortage of academics due to the fall in the number of doctoral students, the National Agency for Higher Education has warned. The drop in numbers comes as a direct result of a squeeze...
With academics under impossible pressure to inflate grades, how can 'real scholarship' thrive? asks Kenneth Minogue. The De Montfort University grade-inflation saga is a tremendous morality tale, a...
Just when we thought National Health Service cuts could not get any worse, Diary learns that a university medical school has to be listed in The Medical Act 1983 for its graduates to register as...
Spare a thought for the unsung academic heroes of Sunday's London Marathon. Staff from Northampton University's School of Health treated some 200 runners for blisters, sprains and blackened toenails...
Strathclyde University student union was celebrating this week after it was named the "Best Bar None" by the National Union of Students. The award was the brainchild of those famous carousers Greater...
Thanks goes to the university press officer who accidentally set off her rape alarm at the Higher Education External Relations Association conference last week. The red-faced delegate chose her...
The vice-chancellor of the University of Central Lancashire has been rapped by some of his staff - for thanking them. Malcolm McVicar praised staff for giving up their Saturday on an Open Day only to...
PHASE - HETAIN PATEL . Lakeside Arts Centre, Nottingham University. Exhibition until May 20, performance on May 20, between 10am and 8pm. One of the cliches about British culture today is that...
The academy's influence on the high school curriculum has been helping to stifle original thought in students, argues Roger Schank. "I am always willing to learn, however I do not always like to be...
Genealogy websites offer few hard facts but plenty to fuel people's dreams of a place in history, writes Matt Houlbrook. Obsession with pornography and genealogy are the two dark desires on which the...
Worried about your employment, maternity, pension rights? Send your questions to The Times Higher advice panel. What are the pros and cons, for pension purposes, of buying back years of service -...
If you want a paper accepted for a conference, be sure your research is original, intriguing and 'scientifically rigorous'. But don't fret over presentation skills - it's content that counts, writes...