Raising the Stakes reports on a cultural phenomenon that few of us are familiar with. While computer games have become part of our mainstream culture, the professional e-sport arena is a place for...
The story of Charles Dickens' development as a storyteller - from his first anonymous unpaid sketch in December 1833 to the publication of Barnaby Rudge in 1841 - is told extremely well in this fine...
United StatesThoroughly revised - really?A US governor has signed legislation intended to lower the costs of textbooks for university students. Jerry Brown, governor of California, announced last...
The European Commission's efforts to create a single market for research across Europe by 2014, a deadline set last year by European Union ministers, have entered a new phase.
Flexible university policy allowed hockey star to train and study. Elizabeth Gibney reports
A university's appeals process for PhD students has been criticised as inconsistent, unclear and unfair by the Quality Assurance Agency.
Berkeley chancellor labels free higher education for all a 'social injustice'. Elizabeth Gibney writes
Exam howlersWinner was out to lunchThe winner of this year's Times Higher Education "exam howlers" competition is Kevin Ruane, professor of modern history at Canterbury Christ Church University....
Professor unfairly dismissed in restructure that increased the number of posts. Jack Grove reports
The University of Manchester has admitted assessing the English skills of some international students with a language test deemed unsuitable for admissions, mainly in order to allow poorer students...
University College London's museums and laboratories will host more than 300 secondary school pupils from this September, after delays to the building of their UCL-sponsored academy left them without...
BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCILResponsive Mode Grant AwardsValues are amounts requested; funds awarded may differ.• Award winner: David Goulson• Institution: University of...
Pay-to-publish will work for top-flight Big Science: for everything else it will be a disaster, says Salvatore Babones
Sir Martin Harris, Offa's outgoing director, argues that widening participation and fair access remain key to the sector's progress
The UK has more professors than ever, says Stephen Court, but their influence over their institutions, and their optimism, is on the wane