The University and College Union research officer quoted in Times Higher Education last week deserves credit for publicising an open secret: that our "top" universities claim inflated student-to-...
The conundrum of academics who do not teach but who are counted statistically as doing so is surely easily solved in the era of multitasking. As academics potter around the archives or are deep in...
Regarding "Words louder than action" (Letters, 6 December). In it, Chris Pearson, director of human resources at Queen Mary, University of London, welcomes the decision by the University and College...
Nobel laureate Andre Geim criticises academics who spend their lives researching the same subjects that they addressed in their doctoral work ("Not monkeys, so why the peanuts?", News, 29 November)....
THE correctly points to aspects of massive open online courses that UK universities could learn from ("This could be huge...", 6 December). For example, the development of "big data" models to better...
While Frank Furedi outlines four compelling arguments against the use of learning outcomes in higher education ("The unhappiness principle", 29 November), it seems to me that another should be...
The perverse use of learning outcomes as instruments of performance management is a classic example of the "bureaucratisation of good intentions", about which PA Consulting Group wrote in THE's pages...
The continuing gender pay gap affecting female academic staff in UK universities and the disparities at the senior level are causes for concern ("Cycle of domination of top roles by men must be...
The centuries-old debate about what makes a university a university, revived by Ferdinand von Prondzynski, Robert Gordon University's vice-chancellor, is indeed eternally relevant (THE Scholarly Web...
Ten Australian universities are performing “above the world standard” for research, including four performing “well above” world standard, according to an evaluation of Australian research.
A managerial culture is growing in universities as they “position themselves to align more systematically with government and industrial sectors”, a conference has heard.
Internationally diverse departments outperform others, study finds. David Matthews writes
The perception among science, technology, engineering and maths PhD students that any career outside academia is akin to failure is denying industry access to high-quality, PhD-educated employees, a...
Regions could be hurt by research concentration, conference told. Elizabeth Gibney reports
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