Pressures driving researchers to act unethically are rising, and universities are burying cases of misconduct to protect their reputations, a leading journal editor said this week. Philip Campbell,...
Hot air balloons We scan the horizon at the annual Labour Party conference in an attempt to spot concrete policy shifts among all the talk PLUS Reiki business: Roberta Bivins on the long, strange,...
Study by Sutton Trust shows 3% of schools account for 33% of Oxbridge undergraduates. Zoe Corbyn reports. An elite 3 per cent of the UK's schools are providing a third of admissions to Oxford and...
The Liberal Democrats reiterated their commitment to scrapping university tuition fees at their annual conference this week. Sarah Teather, the party's Shadow Secretary of State for Innovation,...
Universities need the "managerial autonomy of private sector entrepreneurs" to be efficient and effective, according to the new president of Universities UK. Rick Trainor told the organisation's...
Universities risk alienating staff by not tailoring performance management to the unique nature of academic life, an employment specialist has warned. A survey of 192 institutions by the Universities...
Leeds Metropolitan University has published a set of ideal staff "attitudes, characters and talents", which will be used in appraisals, recruitment and in setting performance-related pay. Draft...
Universities have budgets equal to many leading companies and as many staff but, according to one management consultant, they are often selling themselves short when it comes to recruiting staff from...
John Denham, Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, has announced that the Government is to fund 15,000 new places on foundation degree courses with the backing of employers....
Science Minister Ian Pearson was due to announce a funding boost for research into alternatives to animal research this week. The size of the funding was unclear as The Times Higher went to press,...
Welsh Assembly Government Education Minister Jane Hutt has announced that higher-education students in Wales are to see levels of support for fees, loans and grants rise by 2.5 per cent in line with...
A new e-journal launched this week aims to reinvent the passive student as an active researcher and help forge future academic careers. Produced, edited and managed by students and staff at Warwick...
University College London officially launched a new cancer research institute this week. The UCL Cancer Institute will accommodate 350 cancer scientists, half of whom are new recruits to UCL, in the...
Falklands war veteran and burns survivor Simon Weston has opened a new Pounds 10 million research centre at Manchester University dedicated to improving treatments for survivors of burns, trauma and...
Institutions are now investing in both online presences and gaming courses - but how effective are these strategies? Tony Tysome investigates. Academics who seize upon the latest online technology to...