The UK’s only for-profit university college is in talks about running the "back-office" functions of publicly funded universities.BPP University College, which offers its own degrees in business, law...
The Picasso masterpiece gifted to the University of Sydney by a mysterious donor has raised over £13 million for the institution's research after being sold at auction.The painting, Jeune fille...
The numbers are in: more than 17,500 academics from 137 countries completed the Academic Reputation Survey that will be used to inform the forthcoming 2011-12 Times Higher Education World University...
A university’s process for the validation of foreign partners has “serious shortcomings” and must be tackled as a “matter of urgency”, a report from the standards watchdog has found.The Quality...
A large-scale survey has revealed a wide discrepancy between graduate earnings and what students expect to be paid after they finish university.
Academics and support staff at London Metropolitan University are to strike next week over job cuts and redundancy terms – but the vice-chancellor has criticised the action for coinciding with a Left...
Powerful public universities are manipulating the “desperation of people whose university systems [have been] completely demolished” to make a “fortune” from overseas branch campuses, a senior...
A university’s process for closing courses was “not fit for purpose” and the restructure of one of its colleges had a “detrimental impact” on students as a result, an investigation has found.
Higher education’s best leaders, managers and administrators have been honoured at an annual awards ceremony, with Birkbeck, University of London taking the top prize.
An independent taskforce headed by the founder of a popular personal finance website has been set up to tackle the “myths and misunderstandings” of the new system of student fees and loans due to...
The third Times Higher Education Leadership and Management Awards come at a time of uncertainty and huge challenges for the sector. The work of professional staff will be in the spotlight like never...
Times Higher Education has been awarded two of the top accolades at this year’s PPA Awards, taking the title of magazine of the year in its category.
Dispensing the Bard to salve modern ills is a good idea but Jonathan Bate can't swallow all of it
"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me": at least, that is what we tell children. And every child knows that it is a lie. Words have an uncanny ability to inflict the...
The art of musical collage has followed a rocky path in the years since 1988, when Public Enemy redefined popular music with their album It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold us Back, and, a year...