Historian John France is bringing the Crusades to life in a TV series about early Christian-Muslim conflict John France, a medieval historian at Swansea University, is starring in a History Channel...
* Glamorgan University has appointed six deans as part of its new faculty-based structure. Peter Robertson will be dean of the Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural Industries. Peter Hodson will be...
Anna Fazackerley reports on claims that concern over the profits of the big publishers led the Government to interfere in research council plans to make all research available free online The...
The battle for the Tory leadership turns to higher education this week as the two contenders set out their differences on tuition fees and university expansion to The Times Higher . While David Davis...
When Martin Ogilvie first heard he had a job as an academic he drove through the night from Sunderland to Birmingham University. The social policy researcher said he was so excited that someone such...
The Times Higher 's second World University Rankings have fuelled debate in countries concerned about the future of their higher education systems. The response was especially vigorous in Malaysia,...
KOWTOW TO CASH How far do academics bow to the needs of their research sponsors?
The School of Oriental and African Studies has decided to abandon all investments in arms companies and draw up an ethical investment policy, just weeks after The Times Higher revealed the extent of...
A senior lecturer from Liverpool Hope University has been awarded £55,000 by an employment tribunal for unfair dismissal. Brenda Ashton, 53, resigned as director of the Centre for English Language at...
The ÌÇÐÄVlog Funding Council for England and the Department for Education and Skills have confirmed that an additional £40 million will be allocated in 2006-07 and 2007-08 for part-time...
The widow of the late Professor Sir Roland Smith, Lady Joan Smith, has donated £500,000 to Lancaster University to fund a chair in strategic management. Sir Roland, who died in 2003, was the first...
The Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance has become an affiliate of the Conservatoire for Dance and Drama. There are now eight Conservatoire schools offering degree courses in dance, drama...
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation this week published From Life Crisis to Lifelong Learning: Rethinking Working-Class 'Drop Out' from ÌÇÐÄVlog, a report examining working-class students'...
The best lecturers will be in line for a £10,000 bonus under the revamped National Teaching Fellows scheme. The programme will also allow teams of academics to bid for study grants of up to £250,000...
(The Zuckerman Institute for Connective Environmental Research (Zicer) has been named Low-Energy Building of the Year. Zicer, on the University of East Anglia campus, was given the award by a...