The payoff of 'buy' or 'sell' will be harmony or discord
Composer and banker team up for opera created by stock market patterns. Matthew Reisz reports
Composer and banker team up for opera created by stock market patterns. Matthew Reisz reports
The academy is paying too much, not too little, heed to calls for adaptability to the market, says Hannah Forsyth

Mission groups are bearing the brunt of institutions' growing need for a strong individual identity, find Julian Beer and Wendy Purcell

The coalition's controversial higher education reforms are delivering a more progressive and sustainable system, argues Vince Cable
Times Higher Education to anoint worst example of corporate gobbledegook in sector. Chris Parr writes
UK higher education is in a "strange situation" as the legislation required to implement wide-ranging government reforms is not in place, England's funding chief has said.
Two UK language departments may be forced to close their degree programmes because they recruited too few students for 2012-13, a lecturers' association has claimed.

Ex-foreign secretary decries border policy debarring lucrative overseas students. Chris Parr reports

NCH looks to go from 60-student intake to degree powers, campus abroad. David Matthews reports
A-level reformsOnce a year is enough, says sectorStudents in England will no longer be able to sit A-level exams in January, Ofqual has said. From September 2013, students starting their courses will...

Our vice-chancellor has given a nod of approval to research findings that demonstrate the implicit gender bias in university hiring practices.He told our reporter Keith Ponting (30) that he had...
When we come to discuss postgraduate education a decade from now, no one will be able to say that we were not warned about the severe challenges facing the sector ("Debt put postgrads off before fees...
Regarding "INTO the deep for debt-hit 'dolphin'?" (News, 8 November): we would like to clarify a few points. First, the University of Gloucestershire's finances are improving, due in the main to...
More pharmacy students may be graduating than ever but in areas such as Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire, there remain considerable difficulties in recruiting suitably qualified pharmacists ("Pharmacy...
"You're the boss of me now, but one day I'll go it alone" (News, 8 November) considered the interesting question of whether an international branch campus might eventually seek independence from its...