Personnel touch
Derby University won one category and was runner-up in two categories at last week's Universities Personnel Association awards. It scooped the prize for improving working lives; and it was runner-up...
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Leeds housing win prompts call for fight against 'unfair' contracts
Students were urged this week to fight back against one-sided contracts that limit their consumer rights after it emerged that Leeds University's student union managed to rewrite an "unfair"...
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Profile: Fay Weldon
It is not often that a world-famous author submits her work for "marking" by a panel of academics. But this is exactly what Fay Weldon, professor of creative writing at Brunel University, faces now...
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Industrial-strength success
Knowledge Transfer Partnerships are one of higher education's best-kept secrets. Olga Wojtas looks at what their future may hold Physicist Sir Sam Edwards founded the Teaching Companies Scheme, now...
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Party still anti-fees despite tax shift
Top-up fees stalked the fringes at the Lib Dems' conference, says Claire Sanders Liberal Democrats were quick to claim this week that their new tax policies would not jeopardise their opposition to...
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A voucher for more freedom
We need a system more responsive to student demand, says Tim Leunig in the first of our profiles of academics who belong to each major political party Tim Leunig is a member of an increasingly...
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On the fringe: difference, money and milk shakes...
Higher education might not have been a big feature of platform speeches at the Liberal Democrat conference, but it made a healthy showing at fringe events. Popping up in a small student event was...
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Fears over threat to autonomy of Russian academy
The Russian Academy of Sciences is facing one of its biggest challenges ever as President Vladimir Putin moves to bring it under stricter state control. Under reforms approved by President Putin's...
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Partial grading system change
Leading Swedish universities are ditching the traditional three-scale grading system in favour of the European credit transfer scheme (Ects), despite its parliament's decision not to make it law....
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Canada scholarships face uncertain future
Treasury review poses threat to Commonwealth bursary schemes, write Philip Fine and David Jobbins Canada has put a flagship Commonwealth scholarship scheme on hold only months before ministers are...
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Sit-in ends as strife shifts
Students at the National University of Comahue, the biggest state university in Patagonia, Argentina, have ended a three-month sit-in that had paralysed the institution. But a second Argentinian...
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Recruiting merger fuels competition
An online employment and training company with offshoots in the UK and New Zealand has bought a half share in Australia's biggest recruiter of foreign students. Seek Limited this week paid A$36...
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Tax credits favour wealthy students
Seven years after the US Government began allowing federal tax deductions to offset the cost of university tuition, the deductions have been found to benefit wealthy families, according to the first...
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Pass for soldiers
An Israeli higher-education college will offer students called up for the war in Lebanon a pass grade to compensate them for the classes they have missed. The Technion Institute of Technology in...
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Market forces will spell the end of invincibility
It is only a matter of time before a British university goes to the wall, predicts Terence Kealey The introduction of significant top-up fees marks the emergence of a market in British higher...