London Met drops union recognition
Industrial relations stall as university ignores pre-merger agreements and insists the UCU must apply to represent staff. Melanie Newman reports. In an unprecedented step, London Metropolitan...
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Israeli boycott back on agenda
The academic boycott of Israel is back on the agenda, with the submission of motions on the subject to the University and College Union congress this month, writes Melanie Newman. An anti-boycott...
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When firing off can get you fired...
More and more academics are falling foul of university conduct codes through airing their grievances online. Phil Baty and Tony Tysome report "Get up - stand up! Keep the fight!" This was the...
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Indian mutiny reviewed
The biggest mass jailbreak in history - during the 1857 rebellion against British rule in north India 150 years ago this month - is the subject of a new book by Leicester University lecturer Clare...
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Secure knowledge
Portsmouth University is setting up a new degree course to train the high-tech security gadget gurus and cybersleuths. The degree - BSc in security technology -is the first degree course in the UK to...
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Flushed with success
Scientists at Brighton University have an unknown Sussex resident to thank for a breakthrough that could help Europe to clean up its rivers and bathing waters. Huw Taylor and James Ebdon of the...
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In search of identity
The Centre for Research on Nationalism, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism (Cronem) at Surrey University has chosen "Nationalism and National Identities: Multidisciplinary Perspectives" as the subject of...
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Nifty footwork, York
Academics at Northampton University seem to have got the rough end of the stick in a research partnership with York University. In a rare clinical trial on the treatment of verrucas, researchers at...
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Return of Hunterian
Glasgow University's Hunterian Museum is to reopen next week on the birthday of its founder Dr William Hunter. The museum, which celebrates its bicentenary this year, will reopen on May 23 following...
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Israel torn apart by 'reforms'
Budget cuts and an exodus of academics are wreaking havoc at once-great universities, reports Nathan Jeffay Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud and Martin Buber stood together, unable to contain their...
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World encompassed
Asian English-taught courses growing A growing number of university courses in Asia are being taught in English, a paper from an international higher education research organisation has said. The...
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Why universities owe Tony Blair a debt of thanks
Many of our readers will have decided views on Tony Blair, and those who do not could be forgiven for not wishing to have another look at his legacy after the surfeit of retrospectives over the past...
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Laurie Taylor Column
"A new body, the UK Research Integrity Office, will accept evidence of research malpractice" - The Times Higher, May 11. Dear Research Integrity Office I'd like to complain about my former colleague...
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Felipe Fernàndez-Armesto
"See America." When I got a job in Massachusetts I thought I would be able to take the ad's advice. But it was a year before I got very far out of Boston. At last, when I began a 30-day, 20-lecture...
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Don't sex up gender pay gap 1
With most universities having just published their gender equality schemes, evidence to suggest that female staff are paid less than males was bound to be headline news ("Pay bias persists as change...