Universities' accounts seem fairly healthy, but it's no indication of future well-being. Using an exclusive analysis of the sector's financial statements for 2009-10 by Grant Thornton, Simon Baker...
Philip Dodd on the visceral and transformational reality of war in a Danish documentary
A new adaptation of Women in Love may not adhere to the book, but shows profound understanding
University of YorkPhysical hub for digital ambitionsA multimillion-pound campus extension's first building has officially opened. A £21 million home for the University of York's department of...
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Council claims it has no deal with government as thousands join campaign. Paul Jump reports
Universities are being “economically irrational†by planning to charge tuition fees close to £9,000 and face permanently losing places if they fail to fill courses at that price, the business...
More than 1,000 people have signed a petition calling for philosophy to be saved at the University of Greenwich.
The University of Greenwich has appointed a new vice-chancellor.
When it comes to global league tables, the Times Higher Education World University Rankings offer the most comprehensive approach. Phil Baty reports
Teaching popular culture is a gift and challenge. When done well, students’ experiences are defamiliarised, disassembled and disrupted, and then reconstituted with freshness and inspiration. Popular...
A union official has called on a cross-party group of MPs to investigate whether universities are colluding on tuition fees.
The vice-chancellor of the second post-1992 university to set £9,000 fees has called on the government to “pause†fee rises and new legislation to allow time for a “new Dearing report†into the...