Dead loans boss awarded £35k for unfair dismissal
Ron Harrison, fired as chief executive of the Student Loans Company in 1995 for alleged gross misconduct, has won more than £35,000 compensation - five years after his death, writes Olga Wojtas....
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Rivalry for MBA recruits hots up
Britain's business schools face increasingly fierce competition from abroad for MBA students as overseas governments plough millions of pounds into domestic MBA programmes. UK schools fear that...
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£63m contest to bring out the 'lunatic' entrepreneur in you
Olivia Corcoran describes herself as a New Age academic but without the scented candles and incense sticks, writes Jessica Shepherd. "I'm New Age in that I'm one of a growing breed of academics who...
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Freedom row fails to sink Warwick's Singapore plan
Warwick University set out to renegotiate plans for a £300 million campus in Singapore despite a decision by its governing council not to proceed with the original proposal because of staff concerns...
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We met, talked and then whoosh!
A new service links researchers with authors who want real science in their fiction. Anna Fazackerley tagged along on a 'blind date' to see the results When she began her first novel about the "...
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Measures to keep vivas above board get positive reports
Lancaster University's pioneering scheme to ensure that PhD vivas are not open to abuse has proved a success despite initially being condemned by academics as unnecessary and insulting. Concerns have...
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Plymouth plays to its teaching strengths
Plymouth University this week enhanced its growing reputation as one of the UK's most innovative teaching institutions with the launch of four Centres of Excellence in Teaching and Learning. The only...
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Cash cuts cast doubt on access commitment
The Government is to cut its flagship widening participation budget by more than a fifth over the next two years, raising doubts about its commitment to improving access to universities. Aimhigher, a...
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Hefce focus on lecture costs
A clearer picture of how much it costs universities to teach each subject will be at the heart of a revamp of the £4 billion teaching funding system, it emerged this week. The initiative, which...
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UK urged not to pin its hopes on SATs
The UK should be wary of following the North American example of setting a national aptitude test for university admissions, a senior official at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and...
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Harvard repeats double whammy
Familiar names top the lists but others have reason to cheer, especially in belles-lettres, says Martin Ince Harvard is the big winner in the last of The Times Higher faculty-level analyses of world...
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Off the campus, but in no way off the map
This table [see link to table below] shows the world's most productive non-university institutions in the social sciences. It covers institutions with more than 5,000 papers in the Thomson Scientific...
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A phoenix risen: influential Chicago sets pace and style
The motto of the University of Chicago is Crescat scientia; vita excolatur : "Let knowledge grow from more to more, and so be human life enriched." The cerebral private university lives up to this...
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Diploma mills may gain from Katrina
Proposed legislation meant to make things easier for US universities and staff affected by Hurricane Katrina has created opportunities for profit-making proprietary schools. Senate Bill 1715 removes...
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NZ universities seek distinction
New Zealand's universities are aiming to differentiate themselves clearly from the country's polytechnics, writes Richard Thomson in Wellington. The universities hope discussions with the Government...