Ucea gives deadline for opting out of pay talks
The Universities and Colleges Employers Association (Ucea) has asked institutions to decide by the end of March whether or not they are going to take part in national bargaining on academics' pay....
The Universities and Colleges Employers Association (Ucea) has asked institutions to decide by the end of March whether or not they are going to take part in national bargaining on academics' pay....
Multimillion-pound budget cuts could see whole departments wiped out, writes Melanie Newman
Wellington was once a town where espresso was dangerously pretentious, but an innovative alliance of galleries, libraries, archives and museums has helped rebrand the New Zealand city

Librarians remain an often unseen and unappreciated element of good teaching and research. Tara Brabazon interviews an extraordinary one about the challenges the profession faces at the front line of...
Dianne Berry says the HE framework must account for the future potential of universities, not just their current work
The pro vice-chancellor and chief executive of University Campus Suffolk has announced his retirement. Bob Anderson, who has been in the post since January 2006, has steered the institution from its...
One government department is at loggerheads with another over cuts in funding for students studying second degrees, it emerged this week.Correspondence leaked to Times Higher Education reveals that...

Monographs are miniatures of scholarship, but some people artfully build them into microcosmic extravaganzas that inspire Tara Brabazon
AustraliaPerformance 'compact' unveiledThe Australian Government is to tie teaching and research performance to negotiated "compact agreements" with universities in an effort to encourage distinct...
ARTS AND DESIGN- The New York School Poets and the Neo-Avant-Garde between Radical Art and Radical ChicBy Mark Silverberg, associate professor of American literature, Cape Breton University, Canada....
Publishers see every download of a pirate copy of a textbook as a sale lost. Now they are fighting back against the bookaneers, writes Rebecca Attwood

Mandelson's talk of sector raising skills in key economic areas worries leaders. John Gill reports

In London, Prime Minister Maliki unveils a raft of initiatives to strengthen ties with the UK higher education sector, while in Basra, British forces withdraw. John Gill reports
The director-general of the Confederation of British Industry has cast doubt on the Government's flagship policy to increase university- level skills in the workplace. Richard Lambert said businesses...
Despite the American automobile industry's catastrophic decline in popularity, profits and market share, there has been no shortage of scholarly analyses of its historical importance. If pioneering...