EU pension ruling could cost millions
A European Court ruling on pension rights for part-time workers is expected to cost universities and colleges millions of pounds. Judges in Luxembourg this week backed a claim that part-timers who...
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De Montfort teams up with Fifa for MA
De Montfort University has teamed up with Fifa, the international football association, to co-produce the first international MA in the management, law and humanities of sport with SDA Universita...
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Vision restored with gene therapy
A genetic disease that gradually robs sufferers of their sight may finally have met its match. Scientists have used gene therapy to restore sight in laboratory animals with the most common genetic...
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Age matters for antimatter
Antimatter may be longer lived than previously thought. Piotr Froelich,professor of quantum chemistry at Uppsala University, Sweden, has found that thelifespan of wholeatoms of antihydrogen exceeds...
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Think-tank places HE cost with individual
People should pay more towards their own further and higher education, according to a leading think-tank. Paying for Learning, by the Institute for Public Policy Research, focuses on individual...
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V-cs and lecturers lobby for more cash
Vice-chancellors and lecturers' leaders joined forces this week to lobby the government for more money. In a group meeting, three employers' bodies and five trade unions told education secretary...
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MSPs found to be a little classier than MPs
Scotland may believe it is more leftwing than the rest of the United Kingdom, but researchers at Strathclyde University have found that Scotland's new parliamentarians are more middle class than...
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Foundation degree concern
Employers have concerns about proposals for the creation of a foundation degree. A survey of Confederation of British Industry members found employers thought there was no obvious gap in the market...
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Bullying substantiated
The Welsh Assembly has condemned mismanagement at the North East Wales Institute of Higher Education following The THES's report last month that staff were being harassed and bullied. The Welsh...
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Durham rapped for racial insensitivity
The bishop of Durham has criticised the University of Durham for being racially insensitive and has called for equal opportunities training, following his investigation as the university's visitor...
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UK graduations leap into the top ranks
In less than a decade the UK graduation rate has risen from under 20 per cent to 35 per cent. David Jobbins reports on new figures that reflect the expansion of British higher education and its...
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Foreign students choose Britain
The United Kingdom has emerged as one of the world's leading recruiters of students from overseas, competing most strongly with the United States and, increasingly, Australia. The three countries...
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Dundee's big leap
Dundee University and the Scottish Enterprise Network have this week launched a Pounds 5.5 million company that could revolutionise the international microelectronics industry. Amcet Ltd, opened by...
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Harvard net ban
Harvard University has taken steps to restrict its faculty's outside teaching, research and consulting in a proposed policy change aimed at professors who provide courses or instructional materials...
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Ask the world
The government has launched a six-week consultation process via a new website to prepare for the publication of a white paper on international development in November. The Department for...