The vice-chancellor of the University of Surrey has blamed a "perverse" research assessment exercise result for forcing him to make 65 job cuts. The university is to implement a voluntary severance...
Hannah Fearn reports on the hopes and fears raised at Times Higher's Employer Engagement conference"They face each other across the divide rather like young lovers, with a mixture of fascination and...
The Government's skills agenda is encouraging employers to put their staff through a series of useless vocational qualifications.This is the verdict of a new book by researchers led by Lorna Unwin,...
Economics teachingThe True value of sharingThe teaching materials of economics experts will be pooled as part of a project led by Nottingham Trent University. Fourteen specialist teaching and...
Appeal tribunal rejects case of scholar who quit after exam marks were changed. Melanie Newman writes
Minister defends agency's work but admits there is room for improvement, writes Rebecca Attwood
The Aberystwyth Arts Centre, the largest in Wales, is already one of the leading venues for contemporary arts and culture in the UK.This week sees the official opening of a major new project: eight...
Students at the University of Manchester have forced its School of Law into a U-turn over plans to reduce lecture hours.Protesters backed by the University of Manchester Students' Union staged a sit-...
OIA sees cases of internal rules being broken but also lots of 'good work'. Rebecca Attwood reports
Gary Day watches Michael Portillo learn about violence, but is baffled by his lack of self-knowledge
The Employment Equality (Religion or Belief) Regulations were amended in 2007 to prohibit direct and indirect discrimination, harassment and victimisation on the grounds of any religion or belief. “...
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When one looks up at the night sky, many questions are evoked: why do stars twinkle? Why does the moon have so many phases? How many stars are there? Are we alone in the Universe?However, as non-...
Lord Raglan (1885-1964) was a self-taught anthropologist and folklorist. For him, religion means ritual, not belief, but he brings together myth with ritual in his key book, The Hero (1936).The "myth...
June Purvis welcomes a compelling tale of an overlooked feminist