By Nicholas Rowe. Once upon a time, there lived a young adjunct lecturer named Cinderella. Fresh from her final undergraduate exams, she worked long hours in a typical university, where her days were spent mainly teaching and marking. It felt as though she was surrounded by erudite “academic” colleagues who got to travel and write clever things in books and journals, while she was just left to get on with teaching. You might think that that was work and reward enough, but, for Cinderella, something was missing. More...
13 juin 2015
A Cinderella story for early career academics
Pub crawl and ‘zombie walk’ win funding to promote humanities
By . The UK’s only national humanities research festival has announced funding awards to 41 universities and cultural organisations. More...
Northern Ireland debates postgraduate loans
By . The introduction of loan schemes for postgraduate and part-time students, as well as fee regulation, is being considered by Northern Ireland’s executive. More...
Back universities to grow economy, says UUK
By . Universities UK has launched its fightback against the prospect of further funding cuts with the publication of a study highlighting the economic benefits of higher education. More...
US public college presidents pocket 7% pay rise
ByEllie Bothwell. But new report reveals that the president was not the highest-paid person on campus at more than half of institutions. More...
Cautious response to PhD loans proposal
By. Scientific and university bodies have reacted warily to the proposed introduction of student loans for doctoral students. More...
Transnational students ‘more likely to progress to postgraduate courses’
By . A combination of short undergraduate courses and master’s programmes may be attractive to overseas students, Hefce says. More...
Academics get pen pals to spread word on research
By . The hope is that the exchange of letters will help researchers to understand what the general public thinks of their work, and will help the public to engage with the latest thinking at the university. More...
Science inspired by fiction
By . A new series of short films reveals the often unexpected books that have inspired scientists at Cambridge. More...
How universities played their part in revolutions
By . A conference will explore the role of “Universities in Revolution and State Formation” all the way from 19th-century Sicily to the Arab Spring.
The conference, which takes place at UCD on 5-6 June, is designed to form part of a wider programme looking at “how universities function as instruments of cultural, social and political change” and the role of both radicalism and conservatism – among staff as well as students – in this. More...
