Engineers are developing "Velcro" car parts to make recycling and disposal easier. The new material, which can be used for bumpers and wing mirrors, has received £60,000 for additional research and...
Research led by Elliot Freeman, lecturer in psychology at Brunel University's School of Social Sciences, has confirmed that what we see can sometimes depend as much on our ears as on our eyes. The...
Backlash looms as critics decry lack of checks on soaring cost of higher education, writes Jon Marcus
International scholars take Australian Government to task over assessment plan, reports Zoe CorbynThe Australian Government's move to create a ranking of academic journals in order to assess the...
AustraliaPlans for better fundraising driveAustralia's top universities are to adopt uniform reporting standards on philanthropic gifts by the end of the year as part of a drive to improve their...
John Gill meets the man who pledges to restore intellectual freedom to US university campuses
The dilution of PhD standards damages the status of every aspect of UK academe, claims Kevin Sharpe
Pictures of smiling girls clutching A grades belie the fact that they are still unrepresented in elite institutions, claims Miriam David
Wikipedia is created mostly by teenage male computer nerds, so Martin Cohen worries about its growing clout among 'scholars'
Senior RAE figures offer frank perspectives on the future of research funding. Zoe Corbyn reports
- "Pushy parents" risk making the lives of university admissions staff hell after being given the right to act on their children's behalf. The university admissions service Ucas has "caved in" to...
Scotland's task force on the future of higher education has been criticised by the lecturers' trade union as a small, elite group that is failing to bring staff into the debate.The task force is made...
Is 'robust' the new 'clustering'? Hannah Fearn on an anthropologist spotting trends in vocabulary
Study shows v-cs' salaries have fallen behind those of the private sector, writes Melanie Newman
Academics have responded with gusto to the revival of Times Higher Education's annual "exam howlers" competition. This year's student slip-ups include visual as well as verbal gems, on topics ranging...