Action needs to be taken against Scottish universities because senior staff members are being given âworrying levels of high payâ, the National Union of Students Scotland has said.
The BBCâs use of a student group from the London School of Economics to gain access to North Korea could jeopardise the overseas reputation of UK universities and the work of academics more generally, according to the sectorâs representative body and the LSE director
Cardiff Universityâs dean of medicine has been cleared of research misconduct but the institution has found a former member of his lab guilty of image falsification in four papers.
Boys have been deterred from going to university more than girls in the first year of higher tuition charges, a new study by the Independent Commission on Fees says.
Research Councils UK has removed from its guidance on its open-access policy an exhortation for institutions and authors to make sure a âproper market in article feesâ operates.
Toni Pearce has been elected as the next president of the National Union of Students, promising to fight for âa movement where studentsâ unions are leading from the front and arenât just an afterthoughtâ.
Students today face a âtriple-dip recessionâ consisting of a lack of jobs, opportunities to study and future prospects, according to the president of their national union.
Margaret Thatcherâs ârevolutionaryâ reforms helped to transform an ailing university system into a world-leading higher education system, a vice-chancellor has said.
National Union of Studentsâ president Liam Burns has called for âsensitivityâ and ârespectâ after some delegates at the unionâs annual conference were heard to cheer news that former prime minister Baroness Thatcher had died.
Salaries for full-time faculty members at US colleges and universities are slowly recovering after years of below-inflation rises, although higher education institutions are increasingly reliant on part-time staff, a report has revealed.
In a further sign of the growing scientific prominence of data sets, Nature Publishing Group has launched a new open-access platform that will peer review and publish detailed descriptions of their contents.
The British Library â and the nationâs other legal deposit libraries â have officially taken on responsibility to archive UK web content, opening up immense opportunities for researchers.
Australian academics should not be contractually bound always to split their time equally between teaching and research, the vice-chancellor of the University of Adelaide has said.
