Young universities’ secrets of success
Five youthful institutions that have jettisoned tired thinking are blazing their own paths ahead
Five youthful institutions that have jettisoned tired thinking are blazing their own paths ahead
In the case of Rwanda, it is wrong to argue that only academics working outside the country are capable of critical comment, says Phil Clark
Research heads and other university staff on the burdens of submitting to the inaugural research excellence framework
Beijing wants to supercharge its nation’s universities as it has its railroads, but might its ambitions falter for want of academic freedom and cultural change?
Does bitchiness serve any useful scholarly purpose?
Quartet abandon 1994 Group for new home among elite body. John Morgan reports
Rising from ashes of market conflagrationIn her brave condemnation of what has happened to higher education in recent years (“Free market principles have changed (and ruined) the academy”, Opinion,...
Matthew Reisz talks to academics who have devoted their lives to studying the Bard
Nothing new under the Shakespearean sun? Matthew Reisz reflects on the academic ‘industry’ surrounding the Bard and considers whether fresh editions of his plays do anything to increase our...
Financial adroitness and efficient resource management has, in cash-flow terms, allowed Swansea Metropolitan University to sprint ahead of the pack. Could its fiscal success offer insights to the...
Could a Welsh institution’s success offer insights to help stragglers catch up?
Immigration forecast: ridge of Right pressureIf academic colleagues are wondering why the sector’s extensive lobbying to get overseas students reclassified as non-immigrants is being so strongly...
LSE awaits outcome of probe into Gaddafi regime gifts to publish guidelines. David Matthews reports
Filled with treasures from around the globe and across the ages, England’s university museums are as varied as their funding, but those of Oxford and Cambridge still take the lion’s share of Hefce...
University of PortsmouthAndy ThorpeAn economist whose previous research has focused on such indelicate topics as methane emissions from animals has been appointed associate dean for research at the...