Penelope Wilson is the new principal of Durham's Ustinov College, one of the UK's largest graduate schools Supporting postgraduate education will be central to the agenda of Penelope Wilson, who is...
* Edinburgh College of Art has appointed Miles Glendinning director of the Scottish Centre for Conservation Studies, a post combined with postgraduate course leader in the masters programme in...
Universities should have the freedom to determine their own professional development programmes for staff, the Higher Education Academy said this week. The HEA is to launch the final round of...
Lecturers' leaders have reacted furiously to the discovery that Brunel University has appointed two close relatives of senior staff as lecturers after making 45 academics redundant. The Times Higher...
It is the question every academic could soon be dying to ask colleagues: "What's your h-index?" Jorge Hirsch, a physicist at the University of California, San Diego, developed the index to measure...
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The gender pay gap starts immediately after graduation, new research suggests. Figures on university leavers' destinations from the Higher Education Statistics Agency found that men were more than...
Universities will have to account for the money they spend on training postgraduate and postdoctoral students under new arrangements. In a letter to institutions this week, Research Councils UK...
A leading bioethicist says Unesco's Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights heralds disaster for standard medical research routines. Udo Schuklenk, head of Glasgow Caledonian University's Centre...
Glasgow University has denied fresh claims that it is singling out its School of Modern Languages for job losses as part of its cost-cutting voluntary severance scheme, launched in June. A...
Oxford University is reviewing whether it can continue to admit child prodigies to undergraduate degrees. Under the Children Act 2004, one-to-one tutorials could pose problems and, in addition,...
Research that has revealed wide disparities in PhD vivas has prompted calls for "common ground rules" so that students are better prepared for the examinations. Guidelines would particularly benefit...
Universities should agree pre-course contracts with postgraduates to ensure both sides have realistic expectations, the new general secretary-elect of the National Postgraduate Committee has said....
The University Council of Modern Languages is pressing for financial help for universities to counteract the negative impact variable fees are expected to have on the numbers of students choosing to...
Researchers at about ten UK universities may lose out on cash because their institutions failed to prepare in time for the full economic costing model to be introduced next week. From September 1,...