OU may profit in Labour plan for health service
The Open University could increase its student numbers by more than 50 per cent and increase its funding if Labour Party proposals for a University of the National Health Service go ahead. The party...
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City University's fire
Monday evening's fire, which raged through City University's main site, College Building, was started accidentally in an academic member of staff's office, according to investigators. The grade II...
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Pull the other one
(Comedian and broadcaster Fred MacAulay has been installed as rector of Dundee University in a ceremony that involved him being hauled through the city centre in a carriage by 12 red-gowned students...
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RAE nurse rule sparks protest
Universities keen to be seen as research intensive are fighting to keep their nursing academics out of the numbers submitted for the research assessment exercise. Nursing was the worst performing...
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Unions baying for QAA blood
Lecturers' leaders are predicting the death of the Quality Assurance Agency after they agreed a multi-pronged attack on its regime. The Association of University Teachers declared war on the agency...
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V-c's vision for viability entails loss of campuses
As two universities prepare to downsize, THES reporters examine the rationale De Montfort University vice-chancellor Philip Tasker's travelling days will soon be over. Since his appointment two years...
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Glittering prizes
Neil Anderson , professor of psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London, has been elected a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organisational Psychology , a division of the American...
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In the news: Natalie Fenton
The Association of University Teachers has unveiled the latest weapon in its campaign to ensure higher education is seen as dynamic and modern - a president-elect who is young, female and media savvy...
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One way to foot the Bill
Amid hopes that former US president Bill Clinton will lecture at the new Rothermere American Institute at Oxford University, some more cautious souls may be wondering about the bottom line. Mr...
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World Watch
New Haven More than 200 Yale University academics boycotted United States president George W. Bush's visit to receive an honorary degree. A statement signed by 208 professors said: "There is nothing...
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America drawn to cut-price Canada
Skyrocketing university costs in the United States are pushing more students across the border to Canada for a cheaper deal. Canadian institutions are starting to cash in on the problem and have...
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Testing time for quality group
South Africa has launched a higher education quality committee modelled on international counterparts and charged with promoting quality assurance, auditing the quality mechanisms of institutions and...
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Brussels urges harmonisation of standards
An international project to harmonise standards in university teaching throughout the European Union has been launched in Brussels. Called "Tuning Educational Structures in Europe", it is a network...
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Greeks revolt over institute upgrades
Greek university chancellors are threatening to resign en masse if the government presses ahead with its plan to upgrade technological institutes to full university status. Although the legislation...
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Vietnam to get first foreign university
Work is about to start on Vietnam's first foreign-owned university after the Asia Development Bank agreed to pay $7.5 million (£5.3 million) towards the project. The university is being established...