Peace, love and improved ratings
Racially and culturally prejudiced academics are bad for university research ratings, according to the vice-chancellor who drafted guidelines on promoting good campus relations. Les Ebdon, vice-...
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Lawyers to cash in if degrees derailed
Lawyers are using the increasingly bitter academic pay dispute to show students how they could sue institutions for "breach of contract" if their degree course is disrupted, it emerged this week....
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'We were arranged in height order. The taller ones got big instruments'
Tuba virtuoso James Gourlay has been appointed director of the School of Music at the RSAMD. The world-renowned tuba virtuoso James Gourlay, head of wind and percussion at the Royal Northern College...
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On the move...
* John Troy , head of the School of Accounting and Economics at Napier University, has been elected president of Space, an international network of European academic institutions. It is the first...
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New push to woo foreign students
No-appeal visa regime may thwart initiative, says UUK. The Government this week launched a drive to recruit an extra 100,000 overseas students by 2011, amid ongoing fears that its new visa regime...
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UK is praised for its warm reception
Initially they were nervous - a small group of overseas students standing up to talk about their experiences of UK higher education in front of government ministers and vice-chancellors. But they sat...
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Millionaire pair's spin-off triumph
It was love at first sight for scientists Anne Eady and Jon Cove, writes Jessica Shepherd. She was a 26-year-old doctoral student, he was a 29-year-old postdoctoral researcher, both in the...
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Next week
How would a metrics-based RAE affect you? Next week we report on the first major study looking at the winners and losers that would emerge under an alternative system to the research assessment...
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Fees deadline passes
The Scottish Executive has missed the deadline to present to Parliament its plans to charge higher fees for medical courses, prompting speculation that it will drop the proposals. Scotland is raising...
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Research rendezvous
Liverpool Hope University will host a "Pedagogical Research in Higher Education" conference on May 2. It aims to raise the profile of pedagogical research in university teaching and learning. Details...
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Learners and labs
Scientists are invited to a conference on pedagogic research in physics next month. The one-day event, organised by the Higher Education Academy and the Institute of Physics, will be held on May 17...
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Gainful employment
The Association of Graduate Recruiters will host "Universities and Employers: A Real Engagement", a conference uniting experts in higher education, graduate recruitment and human resources to discuss...
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Grid group wins funds
A grouping of computer software development teams at Southampton, Edinburgh and Manchester universities has received £5.6 million from the research councils' e-science scheme. OMII-UK (the Open...
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Staff in boycott could be sued
Abertay's vice-principal issues warning backed by legal experts. Abertay Dundee University has warned staff that it could sue them for taking industrial action short of a strike. Abertay appears to...
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Unions and universities call in Acas
The national arbitration service has been called in to help break the deadlock between the lecturers' unions and the employers ahead of next week's formal pay talks. But even if the parties can...