Tara Brabazon: The invisible support network
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...
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Cutbacks imperil jobs across UK
Multimillion-pound budget cuts could see whole departments wiped out, writes Melanie Newman
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Beyond the here and now
Dianne Berry says the HE framework must account for the future potential of universities, not just their current work
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Kiwi culture goes GLAM
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
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Appointments
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...
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Tara Brabazon: From little things big things grow
Monographs are miniatures of scholarship, but some people artfully build them into microcosmic extravaganzas that inspire Tara Brabazon
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Ministries split over value of funding second degrees
One government department is at loggerheads with another over cuts in funding for students studying second degrees, it emerged this week.Correspondence leaked to ̽»¨ÊÓƵ reveals that...
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Overseas briefing
AustraliaPerformance 'compact' unveiledThe Australian Government is to tie teaching and research performance to negotiated "compact agreements" with universities in an effort to encourage distinct...
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Philippe Busquin: Plus de femmes pour la rercherche industrielle en Europe Conférence "Women in industrial research" Berlin, 10 octobre 2003
Berlin, 10 octobre 2003 Monsieur le Secrétaire d'Etat, Monsieur le Président-Directeur Général, Mesdames, Messieurs, A mon tour, je voudrais vous remercier d'être venus si nombreux et d'aussi loin 40...
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Philippe Busquin: Plus de femmes pour la rercherche industrielle en Europe Conférence "Women in industrial research" Berlin, 10 octobre 2003
Berlin, 10 octobre 2003 Monsieur le Secrétaire d'Etat, Monsieur le Président-Directeur Général, Mesdames, Messieurs, A mon tour, je voudrais vous remercier d'être venus si nombreux et d'aussi loin 40...
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Published this week
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....
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University scholarships signal ‘new era’ in Anglo-Iraqi relations
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
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A shot across the bow
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
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Plan eyes incentives to help the economy
Mandelson's talk of sector raising skills in key economic areas worries leaders. John Gill reports
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CBI queries skills plan
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...