Poor report casts doubt on flagship initiative
One of the Government's key higher education policies was facing a setback this week as London South Bank University became the first of an expected series of institutions to have a foundation degree...
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Writer's champ
(A Swansea University lecturer has been granted exclusive access to an unpublished archive of research on writer Ernest Hemingway's life in Cuba. Philip Melling, a reader in Swansea's department of...
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Media scholars consider merger
The two major associations representing academics in media studies may join forces in the face of an "aggressive" move by a training body to impose a "narrow skills agenda" on degree courses. Members...
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Libraries find books bound in human skin
The use of human skin as a book-binding material came under the spotlight this week after macabre discoveries in university libraries in the US, writes Paul Hill. According to the latest edition of...
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UK warns Europe on animal activism
The UK biomedical research community warned this week that animal rights extremism was no longer solely a British problem and should not be ignored in other European countries. Last year, the UK...
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Fresh calls for degree revamp
The number of first and upper second class degrees awarded has increased for the fourth year in succession, prompting fresh calls for reform to the degree classification system. A total of 32,500...
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Students win payouts for 'regrettable difficulties'
Sheffield University has offered payments totalling more than £22,000 to students on a troubled masters degree course. In the latest move reflecting a growing consumer-rights culture on university...
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Drilling stuff
Stephen Flint and David Hodgson of Liverpool University's department of earth and ocean sciences are helping a consortium of 11 of the world's leading oil companies to accurately identify...
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Cambridge takes stock of finances
Cambridge University has set up its first investment board and is set to appoint a chief investment officer in an effort to professionalise the management of its endowments more in line with US...
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Tough time in Big Easy as classes begin again
Trumpeter and New Orleans native Wynton Marsalis will lead celebrations to mark the reopening of three of the city's universities on Martin Luther King Day (January 16) after the devastation of...
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French to open elite to the poor
President Jacques Chirac and government ministers are promising to increase opportunities for bright children living in deprived areas to go to university, writes Jane Marshall in Paris. Their...
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Aussies and elephants pitch in but red tape hinders Aceh recovery
Hundreds of Australian academics travelled to the Indonesian province of Aceh to provide humanitarian aid after the Boxing Day 2004 tsunami, while the Australian Government pledged A$1 billion (£424...
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Reconstruction stalled while Sri Lanka struggles for funds
A year after the Boxing Day tsunami, four badly damaged Sri Lankan universities are still struggling to complete even minimal repair work because of a lack of funds. The University Grants Commission...
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A hard line from 'soft' scientists
Social scientists believe that they are being short-changed by proposals for the European Union's seventh framework research programme (FP7) for 2007-13, which is being reshaped after last month's...
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Russia ripe for skills revamp to aid growth
Russian universities face key modernisation challenges if they are to produce graduates with economically useful skills, according to senior government officials. Mikhail Strikhanov, deputy director...