The Welsh funding council will assess how the quality of higher education in the country’s universities can be improved in changes to its powers outlined in a White Paper released by the Cardiff...
The University of Birmingham has withdrawn a job advertisement for an “honorary” unpaid research assistant after critics claimed the position was exploitative.
By Elise Young for Inside Higher Ed
London will host the pharmaceuticals division of a new European court designed to handle patent disputes, the heads of European Union states agreed on 29 June.
A distinguished organisational theorist has called on academics to be far more willing to engage with business in order to co-produce work that can traverse the “double hurdle of scholarly and policy...
University admissions officers are most impressed by applicants who demonstrate a desire to study independently, a new poll has found.
With the finals done and dusted for another year, Times Higher Education is making a final call for entries to its “exam howlers” competition, in which lecturers share their favourite examples of...
Universities do not discriminate against poorer students and differences in participation are instead driven by exam results, a study suggests.
Australia has set a national framework for proficiency after consultation between universities, government and industry
Sir Mark Walport, director of the Wellcome Trust, has been appointed as the UK’s next chief scientific adviser.
Isabelle Szmigin examines how billboards and commercials lure us into buying certain products
The public response in the UK to the approach of war and its outbreak in August 1914 has been depicted by many historians as one of irrational enthusiasm, fever and jingoism. It is a view that has...
At the time of writing, Shakespeare's Globe is staging his oeuvre in a variety of languages including King John in Armenian, Hamlet in Lithuanian and Troilus and Cressida in Maori. There is also a...
Plugging the income gap could prevent another economic landslide, discovers Stewart Lansley
The title of this important book echoes both Wallace Stevens' poem Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird and Henry Louis Gates Jr's Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man. Like Stevens and Gates,...