Cash boost may raise pay hopes
Between 2003-04 and 2010-11 the income of English universities will increase by 39 per cent from £13.9 billion to £19.1 billion The revenue of Russell Group universities will increase by 39 per cent...
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V-cs, Muslim leaders meet PM
Tony Blair has personally intervened in the battle to rid campuses of Muslim extremists, with universities invited to a meeting with Muslim community leaders at 10 Downing Street, writes Claire...
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Bushy eyebrows, a gorilla suit and a busty student
A Campus Conspiracy' s publisher makes explicit that St Sebastian University does not exist. Any resemblance of characters (including the busty daughter of the bra manufacturer) to real people is...
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'Anon' brings campus to book
The blurb on the novel's back cover promises great intrigue: a prominent academic caught in a conspiracy involving sexual harassment, blackmail and fraud, who "uncovers the dark side of the modern...
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Next week
Hello, world Summer's over, the students are coming back. Time to leave the country? We ask academics who have about the pros and cons
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Cambridge still second
British universities have retained their places in the 2006 ranking of world universities by Shanghai Jiao Tong University's Institute of Higher Education. The institute's fourth annual ranking again...
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Public health threat
Research affecting public health and the environment is at risk because of cuts facing laboratories funded by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, unions have warned. Prospect, the...
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Students have to work
An increasing number of students are being forced to seek paid employment during term time and vacations, according to a report published by the National Union of Students and the Trades Union...
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Scotland the great
International students are happier with life and learning in Scotland than elsewhere in the UK, according to an independent report commissioned by the British Council and Scottish Executive. It found...
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Political award
Quentin Skinner, regius professor of modern history at Cambridge University, has been awarded one of the four Balzan Prizes for 2006. The prize was awarded in the category "humanities, moral sciences...
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Prize up for grabs
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Wolfson Microelectronics and the Royal Society of Edinburgh have created an annual $20,000 (Pounds 10,600) international award for a scientist...
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Correction
Harper Adams University College was omitted from our table of results in the National Student Survey (News, August 25). It achieved an overall satisfaction score of 4.2, placing it fifth in the...
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RAE countdown 2008
Cara Aitchison is professor of human geography at the University of the West of England, Bristol, specialising in gender and tourism. She is a member of sub-panel 46 of the 2008 research assessment...
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Arts metrics plan revealed
An RAEalternative for the arts and humanities focuses on a 100-point research scale, writes Anthea Lipsett A radical new system to judge research quality and allocate funding after the 2008 research...
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'I can't do it for 30 more years'
Three quarters of all academics worry about their work, The Times Higher has found. Tony Tysome reports Nafsika Athanassoulis feels disillusioned about her fledgling career in higher education...