The Times Higher reports from this week's British Sociological Association meeting A culture of tribal aggression has taken over many web-based communities, leading academics to dub such groups "...
The student complaints ombudsman, which opens for business next week, could breach human rights laws, experts have warned. University law professors and campaigners said this week that the scheme to...
Richard Harries, the bishop of Oxford, and Lewis Wolpert, professor of biology as applied to medicine at University College London, locked horns last week during a debate on whether religion should...
Swansea University's governing council has voted to go ahead with plans to close three departments and axe undergraduate teaching in another. Governors voted three to one, at a council meeting on...
University College London hopes to establish a university quarter in the capital, creating a largely traffic-free oasis around the Bloomsbury area. A coherent urban campus shared by the Bloomsbury...
Less popular universities that cannot charge high top-up fees should be subsidised by the state, according to Tessa Blackstone, the former higher education minister who was appointed vice-chancellor...
It is a "tragedy" that Welsh higher education is missing out on millions of pounds of extra funding because the sector is failing to meet merger targets set by the principality's assembly, according...
Arts and humanities must not be left behind in the government's new vision for science, the body responsible for research in these areas said this week. The least controversial aspect of the higher...
Fears were growing in the science community this week that a ?200 million boost for clinical research might lead to cuts in other areas of research. Following the surprise budget announcement last...
Basic research in Europe is lagging significantly behind the US in terms of quality and impact, a Royal Society report has warned, writes Anna Fazackerley. The report, published this week, says there...
Universities and colleges are getting non-traditional students into higher education as well as improving the health of the nation with an annual Pounds 73 million investment in sport, according to...
With England's win this week in the Second Test in Trinidad, the West Indian cricket team might consider taking advice from a fourth-year sport and exercise science student at Napier University....
The leadership of the NUS will change hands next week after an election campaign too close to call. The hard left is seeking to exploit disillusionment with the government's top-up fee plans and its...
Salford University is facing close scrutiny from race equality watchdogs after it emerged this week that a registrar responsible for equality and diversity is the latest member of staff to make race...
Academics are being named on a far-right website that encourages attacks on trade unionists and anti-racism campaigners, the Association of University Teachers said this week, writes Phil Baty. A...