Shakespeare Re-told BBC One In the 1970s, the BBC filmed the complete plays of Shakespeare. The project fulfilled the corporation's public service remit and was also a nice little earner. Even today...
David Cameron's election as Conservative Party leader put many middle-ranking Tory MPs - not least Stephen O'Brien, the Shadow Higher Education Minister - into a few days of limbo while awaiting the...
Another success for Pakistani cricket - no, not the 2-0 drubbing of England in the Test series but the appointment of former captain Imran Khan as chancellor of Bradford University. Whether Mr Khan...
Getting things off your chest in a weblog may be cathartic but perhaps not career-enhancing. A University of California academic landed himself in trouble after relating the story of finding two...
Leicester University played host to the most unlikely of diners last week. Engelbert Humperdinck - the "King of Romance" - was spotted tucking into a Christmas dinner in the university's own "posh"...
However poisonous the views of some citizens may be, freedom of speech is the ultimate test of a free society, insists Roy Harris The need to restrict certain freedoms in order to protect other...
What do British academics think of teaching intelligent design to pupils - a view of the world that is being pushed in some US schools? It's the subject of impassioned debate in the US, but...
Going to university has been presented as a soft option. No wonder so many drop out, argues One of the unfortunate consequences of the audit culture is that it unleashes a chain of events that are...
It takes more than a novelty tie to be creative, says Harriet Swain, and if you are to reach the heights of original thinking, be prepared to fall flat on your face along the way and perhaps to...
Name: Margot Chadwick Age: 56 Job: Disability adviser. I advise students and applicants with disabilities, other than specific learning difficulties, about access to Cambridge University and its...
Worried about your employment, maternity, pension rights? Send your questions to The Times Higher advice panel. I have been employed as a support worker in various roles at two universities for the...
Months of staff dissatisfaction with senior management at Nottingham Trent University resulted in a vote of no confidence in the vice-chancellor this week. More than 290 staff said they had no...
Leicester University is hoping to attract research-focused academics with a range of incentives, writes Anthea Lipsett. The university is advertising 20 new lecturing posts in this week's Times...
University of the Arts London First we were what we ate and now we are what we wear, according to Frances Corner (left), the new head of the London College of Fashion. Dr Corner, who spent four years...
RSPCA outrage as experiments on animals rise to 2.85m The number of scientific experiments on animals rose by 63,000 last year to just over 2.85 million, according to data released by the Home Office...