'Cash for salaries is being sidelined'
Vice-chancellors are spending resources earmarked for staff pay on peripheral and potentially discriminatory human resources initiatives, according to a survey by the Association of University...
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Progress on equality is 'painfully slow'
Figures released today revealed small increases in the number of women and ethnic minority academics working as professors, senior lecturers and researchers. But lecturing unions say progress is...
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Lecturers left out in cold with 'shocking' pay
The gap between academic salaries and comparable professions is widening as Bett's recommendations for pay increases remain unmet, an analysis by lecturers' union Natfhe has found. Figures released...
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Funding rethink to fill unfilled places
Funding chiefs are debating whether to further intervene in the workings of universities and colleges facing a crisis in student recruitment. The Higher Education Funding Council for England this...
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New nursing quality check is welcomed
The president of the shadow Nursing and Midwifery Council has announced a new "light-touch, streamlined, cost-effective and evidence-based" approach to quality assurance on nursing and midwifery...
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Dispute brews over role of QAA
Lecturers and vice-chancellors have united in calls for the abolition of all teaching quality inspection, squaring up for a confrontation with students over the future of university quality assurance...
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Whistleblowers: Exam 'chaos' queried
Exam-room chaos, erroneous exam papers and cheating appear to be blighting students' progress at Wolverhampton University, according to responses to a student's complaint seen by The THES . Mike...
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Broers: get set for a shake-up
Cambridge vice-chancellor Sir Alec Broers has attacked the university's "abominable" management system signalling an overhaul of its structures. Sir Alec said that the university was seriously...
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Students swayed by the old school
Students still discriminate, sometimes unwittingly, between old and new universities when they choose where to apply, according to a survey published today. Some 89 per cent of applicants said that...
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NUS calls for grants but keeps mum on other options
The National Union of Students has no policy on how higher education should be paid for, despite its calls for a return to grants and the abolition of fees in the government's student funding review...
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'Multiversities will not deliver'
Higher education colleges could be the key to achieving the government's 50 per cent participation target but they are being hindered by restrictive funding models, principals will be told next week...
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Perceval, meet Harry, you've a lot in common
He prefers a game of quidditch to jousting and never pulled a sword from a stone (it was a hat) but two medieval scholars believe Harry Potter may draw strength from King Arthur. A study of the...
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Shefc tries to appease critics
The Scottish Parliament's enterprise and lifelong learning (ELL) committee has condemned the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council for "profoundly mishandling" its review of teaching funding. It...
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Analysis: Science finds out patent truths
Will US patent 6,200,806 obstruct stem-cell research? Steve Farrar reports. On August 9 2001, George Bush, the president of the United States, spoke to the nation. It was his first live televised...
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Query about CV of leader results in a reprimand
A Canadian professor has been reprimanded for publicly questioning the publications records of his institution's president. David Mullan, associate professor of history and religious studies at the...