A £120 million deal has been struck with the help of a former higher education minister to build a 2,000-bed student accommodation complex that will serve Newcastle University and the University of...
Staff at the University of Salford will be on strike next Tuesday in protest against redundancies.
The universities and science minister has appealed to private investors to support overseas expansion for UK universities and stated that investment bank Goldman Sachs is “keen to investigate this...
Queen Margaret University has scooped the top prize in the annual awards honouring the sector’s finest leaders, managers and administrators.
When we said last year that we were experiencing a period of uncertainty for the sector, we probably all hoped that things would be looking up by the time of the Times Higher Education Leadership and...
Chris Jones is discomfited by the extraordinary fruits of a troubled and troubling literature
The difficulty for philosophers, trading mainly in age-old problems, is to offer something both true and interesting at the same time. Raymond Tallis manages, in the short essays that form the body...
The enduring problem of war raises two particularly vexing questions. First, why have wars, in particular civil wars with the huge economic and social costs that they impose on affected populations,...
Electronic pioneer's cyber literacy guide is lost in translation, argues Harold Thimbleby
Matthew Reisz reports on how serious games offer insights into politics, pandemics and propaganda
AustraliaNow a part of a 'nitwit nation'?Universities in Australia are "haemorrhaging expertise" and "finding it increasingly difficult to recruit first-class home-grown talent", according to a...
Universities need to update guidelines on industry collaboration to reinstate academic rights that have been "seriously eroded" over the past generation, a report by the American Association of...
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCILResearch Seminar AwardsPsychology• Award winner: Theodore Stickley• Institution: University of Nottingham• Value: £14,957Researching arts, health and well-being•...
Moving to gold model could cost sector an extra £60m a year, says Finch group. Paul Jump reports
University business development looks to private and international sources. David Matthews writes