Job opportunities are growing rapidly at Cardiff University following a record-breaking £100 million harvest in research contracts in a single year. The total number of staff at the university has...
While the effects of this month's severe floods are still being felt across Yorkshire, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council has awarded researchers at Sheffield University £2.5...
New moves to treat students as customers - Times Higher, 13 July
Wes Streeting is correct in saying that the description of students as customers is not an accurate reflection of their relationships with universities and lecturers - "education is not a commodity...
Your report "No boycott vote till '08" (July 13) was not quite accurate. The University and College Union strategy and finance committee substantially approved a paper detailing plans to implement...
My parents arrived in this country from southern Ireland in the 1960s, and they later told me of advertisements that read: "No Blacks or Irish need apply." So I was shocked to read the advertisement...
Lancaster University was one of the 46 institutions listed in national newspaper stories that made reference to a historical list of universities being monitored by the Higher Education Funding...
At last, two articles in The Times Higher that start to critique the sector's misguided and wasteful infatuation with excellence ("Centres of excellence fail to transform teaching" and Alan Skelton's...
The Times Higher has done academics a disservice by misreporting a study by Pat Young of the University of the West of England. The investigation is not, and was never intended to be, an evaluation...
Bill Rammell, the Higher Education Minister, is reported as saying that financial contributions by employers towards the cost of higher education qualifications will be central to the success of the...
Bill Rammell's insistence that there is a continuing place for "pure academic activities" in higher education is welcome as far as it goes. Yet his immediate and emphatic qualification that most...
In my experience as an editor, peer reviewers generally provide a high-quality service. Now Marc Hauser and Ernst Fehr want to punish those who fail to meet deadlines ("Make all see that deadline...
I read with amusement your article in which a psychologist and an economist tied themselves in knots trying to figure out how to persuade academics to review articles in a more timely fashion. The...
Polymath academic Richard Sennett tells Huw Richards about his latest book, a eulogy to craftsmanship in an age of 'impatient capital' An academic colleague once said that Richard Sennett has "a...
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