Bid to oust don is 'witch-hunt'
Student call to sack Oxford academic over his affiliations have prompted colleagues to rally to his support and reignited debate over academic freedom. Rebecca Attwood reports. Academics have...
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'Make freedom to offend legal'
Support is steadily growing for a proposed new legal definition of "academic freedom" that would give scholars the unfettered right to offend. A campaign by Academics for Academic Freedom ( www.afaf....
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Deech wants ombudsmen for each campus to deter litigation
Every university should have its own US-style campus ombudsman or equivalent to deal with student complaints, the Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education said this week, writes...
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Peace triumphs over War blitzkrieg
On an unprepossessing field in suburban Surrey, the ultimate academic grudge match has taken place, writes Chloe Stothart. Footballers from Bradford University's Peace Studies department took on the...
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Next week
Shocked and awed From Guernica to the bombing of Iraq, writers and artists have sought to use their art to protest against contemporary outrages Plus A history of convent life
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Call for more money
Vice-chancellors have called on the Government to invest an extra £4.9 billion into higher education over the next three years. In its submission to the forthcoming Comprehensive Spending Review,...
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Postgraduates needed
Scottish institutions need an extra 4,000 postgraduates by 2010-11 in a bid to get closer to UK norms and create the next generation of academics, according to Universities Scotland. Scotland...
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Conflict looming
Dundee University is setting itself on course for "major conflict" if it does not rule out compulsory redundancies resulting from its current sustainability review. The warning comes from Dundee's...
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Correction
Additional sums from 2004-05 were incorrectly included in the 2005-06 salary and pension figures published for Oxford University's vice-chancellor in last week's vice-chancellors' pay table. The...
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£431m to boost student numbers
English universities will be able to offer 70,000 extra places over the next two years. Tony Tysome reports English universities and colleges have got the green light to open their doors to another...
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Access funding hit as 22 face cuts to grant
While most institutions were this week celebrating a healthy average 2.6 per cent after-inflation increase in their funding, a significant minority were facing up to the consequences of real-terms...
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New blood required
Leicester University is seeking to recruit an additional 12 academics - who will have specially reduced teaching loads - in the second wave of its "new blood" campaign to find research talent. The...
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Salford vacancies
Salford University is advertising ten new posts in this week's Times Higher . The positions, which include chairs, lecturerships and professorships, will be based in the faculty of business, law and...
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Students OK survey
The National Student Survey received a boost to its credibility this week when Warwick Student Union, after a two-year boycott of the exercise, confirmed that it would now take part. The union said...
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Royal launch in docks
The Queen has officially opened the University of East London's new Business School, library and enterprise development service. Located on the waterfront of the Royal Albert Dock, the school...