Foreign audits under threat
Staff shortages may force the Quality Assurance Agency to stop auditing overseas operations, a move that could undermine Britain in the global higher education market. Acting QAA chief executive...
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Should Goma be moved wholesale?
Scientists are considering an innovative assessment of the hazards posed by Mount Nyiragongo, the Congolese volcano that has devastated the regional capital of Goma. Expert opinion may determine the...
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AUT rep summons visitor to thrifty Birmingham
The leader of Birmingham University's academics' union has petitioned the visitor to determine whether new vice-chancellor Michael Sterling has set up a redundancy committee illegally. William...
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Debt grows ever bigger and even more painful
A survey of students shows no overwhelming desire for change in the support system, even though many find it a constant struggle to manage finances as debt rises higher. Claire Sanders reports....
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Centre named after Iris
A leading dementia expert has praised the film Iris for "raising the level of debate and discussion" about the disease. The film, about the life of academic philosopher and novelist Dame Iris Murdoch...
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Teesside to tackle crime in Lithuania
The University of Teesside is to begin a drive to help the authorities in a former Soviet republic crackdown on corruption. The £1.2 million project in the Baltic republic of Lithuania is part of a...
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UK told to get EU focus
British researchers have been warned that they must forge collaborations with institutions in Europe if they want to compete with the best in the world. John Lawton, head of the Natural Environment...
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Whistleblowers: Universities set to adopt ombudsman system
'Funding and goodwill have run out at UCL and Dr Link's laboratory mice are facing destruction, setting her research back years' Universities are facing historic constitutional reform to pave the way...
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AUT condemns UCL in row over research post
Members of the Association of University Teachers have condemned University College London for its treatment of Eva Link, an internationally renowned cancer researcher whose life work may collapse...
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Put salaries on quality agenda
It's time to end the shabby gentility that pervades UK higher education, says Geoffrey Alderman. In all the rhetoric that has followed John Randall's resignation as chief executive of the Quality...
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Silence is surrender
If academics do not speak out for truth, they fail themselves and their jobs, argues Bob Brecher The past 20 years have seen a drastic depoliticisation of all aspects of British life, a phenomenon at...
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Why I... think we need a chair of sottismics to evaluate academic jabberwocky
People write the most daunting books without a thought for those obliged to read them. Only after toiling through mountains of recondite folly do we find the courage to pronounce them worthless. Some...
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Nice legs - shame about the teaching
Universities are putting increasing emphasis on student evaluation forms but, warns Zazie Todd, they can reveal more about gender biases than the quality of tuition. The last class has ended. The...
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Cutting edge: Digital Darwinism
The future of computers is not artificial intelligence, says Peter Bentley, but true intelligence, in the form of software based on human biology. Children's toys are extraordinary these days. Little...
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Lessons in misplaced trust and dollars lost
A US researcher with a passion for British beer is challenging assumptions that underlie many economic models - and finding that losing a few cents can be an unforgettable aid to classroom learning....