Bestselling author Bill Bryson has been appointed 11th chancellor of Durham University In one of Bill Bryson's best-known works, Notes from a Small Island , his account of touring round Britain, he...
* Christopher Fynsk , former professor of comparative literature and philosophy at the State University of New York in Binghamton, has been appointed chair in comparative literature and modern...
Staff told conference attendance must be approved Basic "scholarly activity" essential to an academic's working life is at risk as universities make ever more stringent financial cuts, lecturing...
Students who think they can beat plagiarism detection software by paying an internet ghostwriting service to produce bespoke essays may want to think again, writes Phil Baty. An experiment at...
Universities delaying the implementation of the new pay framework could increasingly lose out in the market for new staff, union leaders have warned. Sally Hunt, general secretary of the Association...
Gordon Brown, the Chancellor, kicked off the Labour Party's election campaign this week with a speech promising to "make university and college funding a priority in the next Parliament". Speaking on...
Suits you, chancellor Which chancellors come up trumps in a head-to-head showdown? Plus A peek into parallel universes What does the future hold for Hefce?
Lancaster University this week hosts the Northern Universities conference for 2005, bringing together for the first time vice-chancellors, chairs of university councils and senior staff from...
Dennis Hayes, head of the Centre for Professional Learning at Canterbury Christ Church University College, has been elected president of Natfhe, the UK's largest university and college lecturers'...
The Scottish Executive rejected accusations of discrimination as it began consulting this week on proposals to increase fees for all non-Scottish UK students by £500-£700. The proposals aim to...
The Liberal Democrats' lead in the recent poll of students' voting intentions is smaller than reported in The Times Higher , once a methodological change is taken into account. The poll, conducted in...
A senior lecturer who declared himself unwilling to carry out research because his university had withheld research funds he had raised in his own time will take his appeal against redundancy to an...
The popular stereotype is that maths is a difficult subject best left to men. But research has revealed that, historically at least, women may have been more numerate than their male counterparts....
Students from non-traditional backgrounds are put off applying for university law courses that set admissions tests, conference delegates heard this week. A string of representatives from sixth-form...
Higher education voters could swing marginal seats in the May general election The fate of at least ten parliamentary constituencies could rest in the hands of students and academics in the coming...