Students protest against the 'marketisation' of higher education. John Morgan reportsA wave of student protests across Austria and Germany is voicing opposition to tuition fees and "English-American...
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCILThe ESRC's Professorial Fellowship scheme is funding five of the UK's top social scientists to allow them to develop their research agendas.Award winner: M....
Glamorgan's incoming vice-chancellor Julie Lydon has never let her gender get in the way of career advancement
A professor of education has been appointed the next vice-chancellor of Keele University. Nick Foskett, currently dean of the faculty of law, arts and social sciences at the University of Southampton...
Reproductive technologies offer older women more choice, but who gains the most benefit, asks Rachel Bowlby
Financial discrimination against part-time students must end even if we can't say how it will affect gender imbalance, argues Tom Schuller
Sentence creation toy is 'warning' against obscurantist academic speak. John Morgan writes
A fervent campaigner for open-access journal publishing has been asked to stop posting comments on a new open-access blog by both supporters and opponents of his cause.Stevan Harnad, professor of...
Governors agree to resign after Hefce threatens to withdraw funding. Rebecca Attwood writes
backwards on me Hostess trolley, writes Gary Day, who waxes lyrical about Victoria Wood and Botticelli
Heads have rolled at the fiasco-struck Student Loans Company - but not, however, the head's head. Two senior executives resigned from their posts after a damning report into this autumn's delays in...
Cut in the unit of resource equates to £190 per student. John Morgan and Melanie Newman report
Students from deprived backgrounds could be accepted to Russell Group and 1994 Group universities with C grades at A level when As are normally required if they complete an online programme aimed at...
Study says department heads are a mix of jugglers, strugglers and copers. Melanie Newman reports
Responsibility for subscriptions to international facilities could be taken out of the hands of the Science and Technology Facilities Council and given to central government.The shift is being...