A university has defended a senior manager who encouraged staff to improve student-completion rates by resubmitting work, giving "generous" deadline extensions and passing assignments before they had...
UK universities made £1.1 billion through research contracts with businesses and non-commercial organisations in 2010-11, according to ÌÇÐÄVlog Statistics Agency data.
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The sector offers the total package: blue-skies insights for the future and industrial payoffs now, argues Nick Wright
David Willetts defends the coalition's student finance policy as a fair, progressive model that will support the present and protect the future
"No one told me there was such an exam. If I'd known, I'd certainly have had a shot."That was the forthright response of our vice-chancellor to the recent claim by Fred Inglis in Times Higher...
The market has its limits. Whether it is good or bad depends on context, and all must be alert to ideological creep in the academy
Response to EU law will spur the UK's leading role in reducing animal testing. Elizabeth Gibney writes
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"We enjoy your classes," my seminar students said to me, "because you're not a real teacher." When I asked what they meant, they told me about the "real" classes of certain, named male teachers. "...
These images are taken from the Bowen Collection, now held by the University of Bath, which was assembled as part of the research for a book on the origins and history of judo in the UK.
Liverpool Hope UniversityFrank Cottrell BoyceThe newly appointed professor of reading and communication at Liverpool Hope University joked that his first thought when he was offered the job was: "...