LJMU broke guidelines with 'beyond modest'gifts
Liverpool John Moores University broke anti-fraud guidelines when senior staff accepted expensive gifts and hospitality from major suppliers. Documents released to The Times Higher under the Freedom...
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Next week
SPEAKING OUT The Times Higher publishes the results of its surveys on academic freedom PLUS Cary Cooper peeks into the digital environment of Second Life and sees a reflection of the realities of...
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Arts academics slate metrics
Learned societies warn that losing peer review will affect confidence in the AHRC, reports Anthea Lipsett The Arts and Humanities Research Council is in serious danger of losing the confidence of the...
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Tutors told: make students priority
Academics at the University of the Arts London were told to improve their treatment of students after an internal review revealed concerns about learning and teaching across its constituent colleges...
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Rethink mooted on PhD funding
Universities stand to gain greater autonomy over studentships under radical plans being drawn up by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, writes Anthea Lipsett. The AHRC wants to change the way...
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Will the face at the top ever really change?
Think of the profile of your average vice-chancellor and the words 'Oxbridge', 'scientist' and 'male' may spring to mind but, finds Anna Fazackerley, you'd be only half right The UK vice-chancellors...
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'Allow non-academics to lead,' urges registrar
In today's commercial world, universities must abandon their intellectual snobbery and allow non-academic staff to take over as vice-chancellors, according to a leading registrar, writes Anna...
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Ratings, not cash, is prime incentive
Nine out of ten academics would rather publish their work to boost research ratings than exploit it commercially, according to a survey, writes Letitia Hughes. Law firm Morgan Cole found that 90 per...
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Academics venture to bring in the money
Imperial staff have the best heads for business in UK academe, reports Letitia Hughes Academics at Imperial College London are the most business-minded in the UK, according to a survey in which their...
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UWE goes into partnership with business
Universities that cosy up to big business could find the benefits are mutual, reports Anna Fazackerley Sir Howard Newby, former funding chief, is on a mission to push his university to the top of the...
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Rammell defends hands-off science tack
The Government set itself on a collision course with MPs this week as it rejected key parts of a report on science provision in English universities. Responding to the Commons Science and Technology...
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Imperial breaks away
Imperial College London is to become an independent university on July 8 next year, its 100th birthday. It decided to withdraw from the University of London in December and the date was confirmed at...
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A new council is born
The Government will create a Large Facilities Research Council, merging the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council with the Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils. The...
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Scheme boosts links
The Research Councils UK Academic Fellowships scheme has boosted interdisciplinary research, a review of the first two years of the scheme found this week. Almost 40 per cent of fellowships awarded...
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Correction
Bristol Business School is based at the University of the West of England not, as stated last week (Working Knowledge, "Race for business experts"), at Bristol University.