The Great Strike is just two weeks away. The Labour leadership is highly unlikely to back the strike: the best that can be hoped for is an “understanding” of why so many workers feel the need to lose a day’s pay, and for Ed Miliband to refrain from condemning the strike action. But there are elements in senior circles who – quite frankly – are hostile to unions f...

What disciplinary procedures exist at Goldsmiths, whose lecturers lauded the vandals who smashed up Millbank Tower, asks Simon Heffer.

UNIVERSITIES need more poor students. That headline may dismay some university lecturers and professors who think they already have too many students who are not up to demands

By now most of you will have picked up on Dr Kealey of Buckingham University’s disgusting piece in the Times Higher Education supplement this week, in which he advises university lecturers to treat their female students as ‘perks’, and enjoy watching the little hussies ‘flaunt their curves’. (KJB has a brilliant satire on the

Many people say that the poll tax funded BBC no longer matters - but I do not agree. The BBC matters less than it once did, but it (or rather parts of it) is still considered a source of serious discussion - and things said on the BBC go into the schools and colleges (via teachers and university lecturers - the sort of people who still actually listen to things like BBC Radio Four) and...

University lecturers are considering a boycott of government rules that they say would turn them into "immigration snoopers" on foreign students. Ministers introduced a new points-based immigration system for non-EU staff and students in April as part of its drive to combat terrorism. Students will have to carry biometric identity cards, while universities must check students' bona fides and ...

The History faculty is an online learning resources website which provides free access to a collection of downloadable podcasts and video film clips by university lecturers discussing key historical themes and topics. Although primarily designed to support the curriculum of secondary school children, it offers an excellent introduction to studying history. General themes of history plus world hist...

Teachers are on strike. Civil servants are on strike. University lecturers are on strike. The Grangemouth refinery, which supplies much of Scotland with oil products, is on strike and closed down. Council workers striking. The Labour government is taking us back to the wild 1970s, when workers resorted to strike action against a Labour government in a destructive frenzy, which kept the UK firmly n...