Race for NUS presidency is still wide open
Candidates for the National Union of Students' presidential elections next Tuesday have everything to play for since the dominant issue of student funding remains unresolved. Voters at the union's...
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Science forced to cut millions
Research councils will have to make millions of pounds in cutbacks after the imposition of new government accounting techniques. The amended rules rigidly separate capital and resource budgets that...
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V-cs told to focus on links to community
Regional collaboration and rewarding links with business and the community are likely to be the main focus of a strategic plan being developed by funding chiefs. The plan will be informed by a...
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Science 'should unite'
An independent Europe-wide body is needed to oversee the planning and construction of large science facilities. Delegates at this week's Institute of Physics annual congress, which met in Brighton,...
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Journal clarifies its reviewing system after contributor challenges editor
An academic journal has been persuaded to review its editorial policy after a contributor complained that it was misleadingly claiming to be peer-reviewed. Andrea Sabbadini, editor of Psychoanalysis...
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'Policies flawed by sexy papers'
The editorial policies of the two most prestigious scientific journals - Nature and Science - have been criticised by scientists. Experts are asking whether competition between the two is...
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What's up doc? A lack of men
Medical schools should positively discriminate in favour of male students to boost their numbers and avert a staffing crisis, a senior medic said this week. The British Medical Association medical...
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UHI: delay is costing us £2m in shortfall
The UHI Millennium Institute says it is suffering a shortfall of at least £2 million compared with the grant it would win if it were funded on the same basis as other Scottish higher education...
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£800,000 to secure copyright licence is 'money well spent' for UUK
Universities have won the copyright licence they wanted at the end of a tribunal believed to have cost almost £2 million. Sol Picciotto, a member of the Universities UK negotiating team and head of...
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There'll be no quiet agreeing, says Hunt
Sally Hunt is self-deprecating to the extreme when she says she is "very boring". As general secretary of the Association of University Teachers, she will lead 45,000 lecturers from some of the world...
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Visitor is called in over bullying allegations
The University of Nottingham is reviewing its harassment policy after a survey found alarming levels of concern about staff bullying in its School of Nursing. The Association of University Teachers...
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Analysis: Fighting on for independent review right
Natfhe is on the warpath over governance structures that reflect the 'dysfunctional distrust of staff'. Claire Sanders reports. Lecturers' union Natfhe will call for independent review for both staff...
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Analysis: Legal ins and outs of power
Natfhe is on the warpath over governance structures that reflect the 'dysfunctional distrust of staff'. Claire Sanders reports. Universities are legally independent corporate bodies. The council or...
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Beijing
About a third of the 400,000 Chinese students who have undertaken postgraduate study abroad since the late-1970s have returned with doctoral or masters degrees, according to official figures.
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Copenhagen
Researchers at the Royal Danish Veterinary and Agricultural University have developed a system to assess the taste quality of fruit and vegetables.