Staff working at the universities of Kent and Greenwich say they “still have hundreds of questions” as the official merger ...

Lucy Powell has been appointed education secretary in Andy Burnham’s government as Downing Street confirms the end of a standalone science department in Whitehall. Powell, who h ...

Australia’s “unfair” tuition fee regime can be fixed without putting pressure on government coffers or inflicting politically unpalatable price hikes on future nurses and te ...

Patrick Vallance has resigned as science minister amid rumours that his department will be disbanded by Andy Burnham as he becomes prime minister. A former UCL medical school dean ...

The third objection is that I have fundamentally misunderstood the nature and purpose of a doctorate. Really? For ages, there have been calls to reform the whole PhD process to be more “fit for ...

For years, higher education has rewarded students for producing answers efficiently. They learned how to absorb information, reproduce knowledge and satisfy evaluation systems built around outputs.

When an academic role ends abruptly, through redundancy, restructuring or a contract that isn’t renewed, the loss can feel like grief. Victoria Gibbon shares a structured journaling exercise that help ...

Is higher education’s civic engagement becoming performative? Here’s how to embed it in teaching, research and governance ...

Students’ expectations of future happiness in Australia – rather than immediate issues like social support or English ...

How to deliver large-cohort teaching development programmes that help postgraduate students see educating as a professional ...

However, a UCU spokesperson said the increased emphasis on grant-income generation was a significant departure and the “unpublished expectations appear difficult to reconcile with responsible research ...