Swansea’s sacrificial plan: take pay cuts to avoid redundancies
Swansea University wants staff to take pay cuts of between 3 and 4 per cent in exchange for a “no redundancies” deal.
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Almost all universities submit access agreements to Offa
The vast majority of English universities - if not all - are planning to charge tuition fees above the lower threshold of £6,000, information released by the Office for Fair Access reveals.
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Wellings to leave UK for Australian post
Paul Wellings, the vice-chancellor of Lancaster University and chair of the 1994 Group, is leaving the UK to take the helm of an Australian university.
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Tara Brabazon: digital stairways need wheelchair ramps, too
Since 1994, I have delivered a Monday morning lecture at 8.30, 9.00 or 9.30am. One of the consequences of teaching first-year students is that academic timetables are skewed earlier in the week to...
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Offa deadline triggers a volley of fee declarations
A flurry of tuition fee announcements have been made as the deadline approaches for universities to submit draft access agreements to the Office for Fair Access.
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Inside Higher Ed: Presidential doppelgängers tweet
By Steve Kolowich, for Inside Higher Ed
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#comedinewithTHE competition
Times Higher Education is giving away the prize of a lifetime. But not for this competition. No, the winner of this competition will see themselves (and a friend/acquaintance of their choice) whisked...
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Harper Adams plans to charge £9k fees
The UK’s leading farming college has joined the growing group of institutions that plan to charge tuition fees of £9,000 a year in 2012.
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Australia’s watchdog warns of US-style ‘long tail’ of bad institutions
The US higher education system is blighted by a “very long tail of really bad institutions that are taking people’s money for degrees that don’t give any advantage at all to students”, according to...
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London Met plans radical course clear-out in curricular overhaul
London Metropolitan University has announced plans to axe about 400 courses, cutting the number it offers by two-thirds – from 557 to roughly 160.The reduction forms part of a radical shake-up of the...
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Three’s company: Imperial, King’s join UCL in £700m medical project
Imperial College London and King’s College London have announced that they are to become partners in the UK Centre for Medical Research and Innovation.
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Maybe it’s because he’s an adopted Londoner: Shine! winner is ‘lucky’
A Chinese student with a passion for volunteering and London life has been named the British Council’s international student of the year.
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A starring role beckons
As the student experience becomes more crucial to universities' survival, administrators see a chance to step out of their supporting parts. John Morgan examines how their positions may expand and...
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Rising in the East
Fifty years ago this week, Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin fulfilled humanity's ancient dream by ascending into the heavens. Colin Pillinger considers the First Cosmonaut's space odyssey and the...
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This Luminous Coast
Laurence Coupe is captivated by a celebration of the nature and culture of East Anglia's coastline