The University of Sheffield has scooped the top prize of University of the Year at this year’s Times Higher Education Awards.Announced as the winner at a ceremony at the Grosvenor House hotel in Park...
Research into eye disease, a ground-breaking creative writing course and work to improve food security has helped 18 universities to win Queen’s Anniversary prizes for higher and further education.
This year’s Times Higher Education Awards see the university’s three core missions of research, teaching and engagement represented in an array of innovation and inspiration. Among the research...
A US sociologist has been named as the new director of the London School of Economics.
United StatesWho left the dogs out?A university in the US is facing a multi-million-dollar bill for cleaning up the remains of nuclear experiments carried out more than five decades ago. The...
Franchised places must not be reclaimed from FE colleges, minister warns. David Matthews writes
Chemistry provisionDust off the Bunsen burnersA new department of chemistry is to be established at Lancaster University, more than a decade after it ceased to teach the subject. Lancaster is seeking...
Sector doesn't prioritise issue and ignores 'adverse outcomes', scholar argues. Matthew Reisz writes
Competition for 'share' will dissolve institutional difference, Deloitte claims. David Matthews writes
New 1994 Group chair tells Simon Baker that the coalition is sleepwalking into a postgrad crisis
LEVERHULME TRUSTBasic sciences• Award winner: Wolfgang Muller• Institution: Royal Holloway, University of London• Value: £251,196Spatially resolved Ca isotope systematics in vertebrates by LA-MC-...
Aaron Porter says that in a high-fees world, the sector must do more to involve an increasingly diverse student body in decision-making
Impact gives science a way to keep the public onside, says Stephen Curry
Fall in number of research fund applications sees rise in proportion of winners. Paul Jump reports
Student unions, rather than a "state-controlled" agency, should hold the power to ratify university tuition fee levels, the president of the National Union of Students has argued.