Harassment conviction set aside for now
An academic who was found guilty of harassing his former vice-chancellor has won at least a temporary reprieve after the conviction was set aside by the courts.Howard Fredrics, a former senior...
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Employers' 'unacceptable' stance may lead to strike
Academic union prepares for nationwide action in the wake of a Ucea rebuff. John Morgan reports
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#loveHE
As part of our #loveHE campaign, Times Higher Education has asked followers on Twitter to tell us why they love the academyThis week's tweet of the week is:From tailor and dinner lady's daughter to...
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Double jeopardy: UCL and charity's clashes contributed to centre's fall
History of medicine unit's death sentence follows disagreements over future focus, Zoë Corbyn writes
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West side story at heart of branding rumble
Two universities are at loggerheads over plans by one of them to change its name.Thames Valley University applied to the Privy Council to change its title to the University of West London, citing a...
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News in brief
Discrimination guidance'Not so liberal' attitude warningHigher education institutions should not allow assumptions about their "liberal culture" to mask the need to address discrimination against...
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Scientist invests in own institution
Leeds chemistry professor donates £250k to fund research into new drugs, writes Melanie Newman
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Data details unveiled for THE world rankings
Phil Baty reports on Thomson Reuters' profiling process for revamped global survey of universities
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Odds and quads
These flyers form part of an extensive archive of manifestos and other publicity material from every general election since 1892.Four boxes are devoted to the 2005 general election alone. The...
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Base teaching on lessons of the Bible, business schools are told
Academic claims Christian principles are key to preventing financial crisis. Hannah Fearn reports
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Scholar wages FoI battle for bank collapse data
An academic is battling to obtain access to Treasury documents relating to past banking failures, five years after he first asked to see the material under the Freedom of Information Act.Prem Sikka,...
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Daytime TV: Overdue exposure
Brian Duffy photographed many faces of the 1960s. Gary Day watches him pick up the camera again
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Rub a dub dub
One of our senior redundancy-package-available academics, Professor Gordon Lapping of the Department of Media and Cultural Studies, has strongly backed the recent plea from the London Mathematical...
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Research intelligence: Trust us, we're on your side
With election day looming, the science policies of Labour, the Tories and the Lib Dems were scrutinised by the Campaign for Science and Engineering. Zoë Corbyn weighs up their responses and manifesto...
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