'Macho, white culture' to go
Cambridge University is to encourage positive discrimination for women, ethnic minority and disabled staff in an attempt to end the intimidating white, male "macho culture" highlighted in an equal...
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Apology for radio critique
College heads have called for the resignation of Learning and Skills Council chief executive John Harwood following his criticism of further education standards on national radio. Mr Harwood has...
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Scot reform welcomed
Wendy Alexander, Scotland's enterprise and lifelong learning minister, has praised the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council's "good progress" in revising proposals to reform teaching funding,...
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Call for 'shared governance'
Academics should be brought back to the heart of university management because executive rule is failing. Speaking at the Universities UK conference on university governance, Michael Shattock,...
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Imperial boosts lecturers' salaries
Imperial College, London is abolishing the bottom two-thirds of the lecturers' pay scale, boosting the minimum salary for lecturers by £8,000 to £28,319. Professors will also be paid more, with the...
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News in brief
Widening-participation staff recruited Universities across the United Kingdom are recruiting staff for the widening participation drive mandated by the government. Institutions including Bath,...
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Pay system aims to close wages gap
Education secretary Estelle Morris has put her faith in the reformed university pay-bargaining system to prevent a staff recruitment and retention crisis in higher education and to close the pay gap...
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College heads warned of split
College principals were warned this week that the agendas of the government and higher education have "never been more at odds" and that a division of the sector into teaching and research...
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Denial of university status an 'injustice'
Controversy has marred the creation of the first new university in almost a decade, with ministers and quality chiefs accused of inconsistency and unfairness. Last week the Privy Council awarded the...
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Fire destroys PhD work
Glasgow University may have to seek research council extensions for up to ten botany postgraduates whose work is feared destroyed in a fire. But some research work and historic memorabilia has been...
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Whistleblowers: 'Oxford three' back one
Race harassment officer Dee Singh has resigned from Oxfordshire Race Equality Council, claiming that the "power and influence" of Oxford University has hampered his work on behalf of aggrieved Oxford...
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Analysis: Free to live and learn
Fauzia Ahmad is conducting research that challenges the stereotypes about Muslim women in the UK. Claire Sanders reports. Since September 11, Fauzia Ahmad has been very busy. As a project manager of...
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Spain to adopt Bologna model
Spanish rectors aim to reform the structure of university degrees to bring them in line with the Bologna declaration. In future, first degrees should take three to four years to complete and...
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Age catches up with Oz lecturer force
Australian universities face a staffing crisis over the next five to ten years as one in every eight academics reaches retiring age. Few young academics are being appointed to permanent positions....
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Campus guarded after five deaths
Uganda's largest public university, Makerere, is under 24-hour armed guard after the deaths by shooting of five students during the last academic year. Policemen, regular and special army units are...