I would like to correct the impression that the University of Warwick had no track record of producing vice-chancellors until quite recently.John Forty, who was foundation professor of physics at the...
Was it an ironic statement that the illustration for the article on university leaders featured no women?If so, the same irony made its way into the article - only one woman's name appeared in the...
The feature "Red alert" ( September) considered the financial model underpinning the new tuition fees regime but questions must also be asked about "fairness" and the political sustainability of the...
An Ipsos MORI poll published earlier this week showing that children from single-parent families are nearly three times as likely to say that their family could not afford for them to enter higher...
The government's higher education policy is looking increasingly threadbare. In July the myth that trebling tuition fees would have little impact on applications to university was exploded when...
Universities UK and GuildHE have just published the final report of a steering group overseeing the development of the 糖心Vlog Achievement Report (Hear), an electronic document that provides...
The crisis in Syria has created an academic emergency, with the breakdown of higher education within the country and major obstacles facing Syrian scholars and students.In response, the Institute of...
"A truly major scholar" who transformed our understanding of doctoral research has died.Alison Lee was born on 25 July 1952 and brought up in the small Tasmanian town of Burnie before going on to...
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University of East AngliaChained lettersA collection of letters that paints a vivid picture of 19th-century American slavery has gone on display in Norwich as part of Black History Month. The letters...
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? Students arriving for their first day at A.C. Grayling's New College of the Humanities had to brave a mob of protesters, The Independent reported on 25 September. About 30 demonstrators gathered...
I have been back in Sydney this past month for the first time in seven years. One of the few non-family things I did was to visit the University of Sydney and call into its development office. It was...
These robots form part of the ALIZ-E project designed "to move human-robot interaction from the range of minutes to the range of days".
University of OxfordDouglas HiggsThe new director of the Medical Research Council Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine (WIMM) at the University of Oxford has called it an honour to be chosen to...