Financial aid 'illogical and unfair'
Students have branded the university finance system unfair, illogical and bureaucratic.In a series of "student juries" held around the country, students demanded much clearer information on funding...
Students have branded the university finance system unfair, illogical and bureaucratic.In a series of "student juries" held around the country, students demanded much clearer information on funding...
Data from Thomson Scientific’s Essential Science Indicators, 1 January 1997–31 October 2007
Tara Brabazon takes a listophile’s delight in a celebration of musical progress
We are frequently asked if disciplinary warnings that have expired can be taken into account in later disciplinary hearings. Is this the case and what are the risks?

In a pioneering move, Poppleton University announced this week that it was abandoning its traditional concern with high-quality research. Our Director of Corporate Affairs, Jamie Targett, explained...
Tim Birkhead on the trumpet-blowing and florid fiction of the academic CV
Cardinal O'Brien's intemperate broadside against embryology research buries an opportunity for discussion in invective
Rosemary Pope, the University of Bournemouth's pro vice-chancellor for education, died suddenly on 20 March.Professor Pope, who held a PhD in psychology, was a professor of education with a...
I am a dyslexia tutor who mentors students with specific learning difficulties. Increasingly, my colleagues and I are being asked to support students with mental health problems as well as dealing...
A student exhibiting signs of stress, depression or mental illness is truly an impossible case for academics to handle, particularly in the context of an already taxing daily workload. Yet the fact...
Academic training in the UK clearly doesn't prepare staff to cope with emotional distress and breakdown in our students, but there is now an accessible pathway to gaining appropriate skills.Mental...
Gerard Kelly gives three reasons for maintaining league tables (Leader, 10 April).First, he says they give information that was apparently not there prior to league tables' existence; but that is not...
The director of research and evaluation at the Higher Education Academy has been suspended from his post for a letter published in Times Higher Education that commented on the National Student Survey...
While I agree that access to official documents should be free and unrestricted, Erik Ringmar ("Liberate and disseminate", 10 April) is wrong to state that ProQuest has any claim to the copyright of...
Contrary to Erik Ringmar's statement, all British parliamentary papers from 1688 to 2003-04 are freely available online to the UK higher and further education communities, thanks to licence...