Academic salary bills are a 'time bomb', say employers

Vice-chancellors warn that pay rises, pensions and inflation could lead to financial woes, writes Melanie Newman

Pay talks to start without lecturers' union

Vice-chancellors have agreed to push ahead with national pay negotiations without the lecturers' trade union, raising the prospect of industrial action in the autumn and the collapse of national pay...

RCUK abandons impact formula

Councils admit defeat in hunt for algorithm to show economic value of research, reports Zoe Corbyn

The Week in Higher Education

Of all newspapers, the Government may have least expected the Financial Times to be leading the attack on its plans to increase the involvement of business in the design and funding of degree courses...

Denham announces reviews to map out sector's future

Minister promises long-term planning and lauds business partnerships. Melanie Newman reports

Cold spots to gain higher education centres

Labour vows to 'unlock talent' by creating 20 new sites and 10,000 places in six years, writes John Gill

'High-handed' approach to dispute under fire

An academic expert in industrial relations at Keele University's School of Economic and Management Studies has criticised the way the university's managers are handling the dispute over job losses at...

Working with administrative staff

Encouraging fellow academics to remember that administrative staff are colleagues worthy of support and respect

Helping students achieve first-class work

High achievers are made more often than born, and lecturers can support and stretch students to enable them to hit the top target

Cartoon by Ham

Top 10 researchers in psychiatry and psychology based on total citations

Data from Thomson Scientific’s Essential Science Indicators, 1 January 1997–31 October 2007

Let the students speak!

"Absolutely brilliant." "What a wonderful place." "Such a caring institution." "It's been fabulous." "My kind of campus." "Beyond my wildest dreams."

The prandial is political

Felipe Fernandez-Armesto lauds the world's soul foods, and killjoys be damned

Leader - These are the good old days

After a late 20th-century famine, UK universities are in relative good health - but Whitehall's decision to start preparing for an uncertain future is prudent

University of Oxford - Ban on animal activists rejected

Animal rights activists will continue to be allowed to protest outside graduation ceremonies at the University of Oxford. The university had sought an order for an "exclusion zone" from the High...