Appointments
* Roy Crawford , professor of engineering materials and pro vice-chancellor at Queen's University Belfast, has been appointed vice-chancellor of Waikato University, New Zealand. * Paul O'Prey ,...
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Arts suffer a 19% cash gap
Humanities and social science subjects are on average underfunded by a fifth as is teacher training, according to a government report. The report points to a 19 per cent gap between what it costs...
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Non-poet versed in Dylan wows Oxford
Controversy was in the air at Oxford this week as the university looked set to appoint a non-poet famous for his writings on Bob Dylan as its next professor of poetry. Literary critic Christopher...
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Salary boost for medics
Doctors who choose to juggle an academic career alongside their clinical commitments will no longer lose out financially thanks to an increase in government funding. After months of negotiation, the...
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Next week
NIALL FERGUSON: why the US is the most powerful empire ever OLIVER POPPLEWELL argues that official apathy is ruining our prisons IAN WILMUT on why he's happy reproductive cloning is illegal in the UK
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Oxford admissions fear
Proposals from Steven Schwartz's task force on university admissions could lead to "coercive managerialism" that would undermine academic excellence by imposing uniformity, according to Anthony Smith...
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Capital investment
Universities and higher education colleges in London generate £800 billion of spending, or 1 per cent of the UK's gross domestic product, according to a report that summarises two studies by GLA...
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Welsh education chief
The Higher Education Funding Council for Wales has appointed Philip Gummett chief executive. Professor Gummett, former pro vice-chancellor of Manchester University, has been the HEFCW's acting chief...
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'Cash crisis' hits Wales
Further education college heads in Wales have warned that they are facing a financial crisis that could mean up to 800 full and part-time courses being closed and nearly 200 lecturers' jobs being...
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Ambassador attacked
Sir Ivor Roberts, Britain's ambassador to Italy, was pelted with eggs, fruit and stones by anti-war demonstrators as he entered Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies in...
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IP debate on ice
The debate over changing the way Cambridge University and its academics exploit ideas commercially will rumble on for another week. A meeting of the Regent House - Cambridge's 3,000-strong governing...
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Biology bubble in danger of bursting
The boom in biosciences is being jeopardised by the dwindling supply of academics in the physical sciences, biologists told The Times Higher this week. During a dinner hosted this month by the...
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Lecturer celebrates decade of freedom and flares in Malawi
Derby University law lecturer Kevin Bampton will be watching with special interest as Malawi citizens go to the polls next week on the tenth anniversary of democratic rule in their country. A decade...
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Animal campaigner was 'not my student'
Scientist Colin Blakemore, one of the most outspoken defenders of animal research, has accused a leading anti-vivisectionist of misleadingly claiming to be his student to add authenticity to a...
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University of Arts pitches for celebrity cash
Top actors such as Pierce Brosnan and leading designers such as Stella McCartney are among the famous alumni who will be asked to lend support to the UK's first University of the Arts. The university...