Access ambassadors
The Oxford Access Scheme, based at Oxford University, is to encourage 100 children aged 13 and 14 from schools all over the country to be its ambassadors. The scheme, funded by the Sutton Trust, will...
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Edinburgh gets Devine
The director of Aberdeen University's Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies, which in January won the largest single grant ever made by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, is taking a post at...
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Middlesex staff give 'hot-desking' a cool response
The culture of hot-desking has arrived in academe as part of a multimillion-pound expansion and refurbishment programme at Middlesex University. However, promises of "state-of-the-art facilities", "...
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Access research data may be flawed
Policies to attract more working- class students into higher education may be based on "flawed" research with incomplete data or suspect methodology, funding chiefs have been told. The interim report...
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Suya chief appeals for aid
Linguists at Manchester University have persuaded an Amazonian chief and two members of his community to make a rare journey outside their homeland. The three representatives of the Brazilian Suya...
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AUT poised to hold review of boycott
The Association of University Teachers this week looked set to announce a special council to reconsider its decision to boycott two Israeli universities after a backlash against the controversial...
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Exeter's largesse is cold comfort for some
Senior academics hit by department closures at Exeter University have won record redundancy payments, but some warn that younger academics are losing out. Exeter broke the news to staff at the end of...
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Colleges gamble on cut-price degrees
Cut-price degrees will be on offer next year from more than three quarters of "mixed economy" further and higher education colleges, a Times Higher survey has found. Colleges running honours degree...
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QAA tells Leeds Met to close loophole
Students are obtaining degrees without having to sit the most difficult parts of their courses, quality watchdogs have found. The problem was highlighted this week by the Quality Assurance Agency,...
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Campus beat
Trainee police officers from the Cleveland Constabulary are to be among the first recruits in the UK to study for a foundation degree in police studies. The two-year course, which is run by Teesside...
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More work on monitoring standards needed, say first light-touch audits
Universities and colleges need to undertake further work to improve the way they monitor and manage their academic standards, according to the Quality Assurance Agency, writes Phil Baty. In a report...
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Freely available dissertations sold on to students
Dissertations that are openly published on university websites are being sold to students to pass off as their work, an investigation by The Times Higher has found, writes Phil Baty. In yet another...
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Fearless in the face of assault on RAE summit
"Nothing in university life can scare me," Chris Jenks says candidly. He is not making a bullish boast but rather pointing out that the experiences he has encountered while indulging in his 30-year...
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Call to curb aid to cut fees
A movement gathering steam in the US aims to slow the growth of federal aid for students' tuition fees and to force universities to cut costs. The logic among the economists pushing the idea is that...
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Academics back stem-cell thaw
Italy's highest academic panel, the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, has voted heavily in favour of research using stem cells from previously frozen embryos. The vote, by 58 to eight, with 14...