Quality concerns take centre stage as staff quit over dramatic changes
QAA looks into claims that lack of practical focus is harming theatre training. Hannah Fearn writes
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'Blacklist' fear remains despite EPSRC's moves
Plans to bar researchers who make a number of unsuccessful bids from applying for further research council grants have been watered down after an outcry in the pages of Times Higher Education.More...
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Lifelong learning 'on verge of extinction' across the UK
A string of cuts and closures leaves the future of adult education unclear. Rebecca Attwood writes
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Protesters disrupt business-link conference
Student protesters stormed the stage at a knowledge-transfer conference and demanded an end to the close relationship between universities and business.The students, who were representing the...
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NSS targeted in linguistics battle
Sussex students fighting closures seek to retract survey responses. Melanie Newman reports
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News in brief
Bioscience researchNiche areas of expertise in dangerAn investigation is being held to identify niche areas of expertise that are in danger of being lost from the bioscience research community. A...
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Daytime TV: It's life, Captain
Gary Day asks what we can learn from Star Trek, enjoys a look at Wordsworth and laughs with women
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Top journals in computer science
Data provided by Thomson Reuters’ Essential Science Indicators database, 1 January 1998-31 December 2008
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Are you looking at me?
Although Poppleton has acknowledged the concerns of the Higher Education Policy Institute by increasing personalised contact time with students by 0.62 per cent, a new student survey suggests that...
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... and be quick about it
Impatient editors risk upsetting manuscript referees, writes Tim Birkhead
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Leader: Watch the devilish details
The REF is moving in a direction that most of the sector is happy with, but there is still much at stake in the fine-tuning
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From where I sit - Studious Sue, not-so-clever Trevor
Earlier this year, I attended a tertiary educators' training session in which we watched a 2006 Danish film about the changing nature of students - Teaching Teaching and Understanding Understanding,...
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Tyrrell Burgess, 1931-2009
Tyrrell Burgess, an innovative educational thinker, has died.
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UCU's 8% claim would be paid for in job cuts 1
We are writing to encourage all University and College Union members to consider carefully the reasons underpinning the union's calls for a dispute. We realise that, in comparison with the...
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UCU's 8% claim would be paid for in job cuts 2
The University and College Union ballot rightly identifies redundancy as the primary threat facing academic staff and points to increased workload and harm to quality as the sure consequences. And...