Older students beat top-ups
Older students and women are leading a charge to beat top-up fees, driving up university applications by nearly 9 per cent this year. Some 31,000 more people than last year - enough to fill two...
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..But visa issues deter overseas applicants
Britain's reputation as one of the world's top study destinations was dented this week as applications from students outside the European Union tumbled, writes Alison Goddard. The number of non-EU...
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Jewellery designers show intellectual metal
Plenty of jewellery will have passed hands earlier this week as proffered tokens of love. But jewellery design is not just about the heart, it is also an intellectual pursuit. At least, that is,...
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'Co-operation or collusion' debate divides specialists
When does acceptable student co-operation become unacceptable collusion? writes Phil Baty. The question came to the fore this week as a university plagiarism watchdog told how his daughter was...
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Over half ignore cheating
More than half of academics admit to ignoring suspected cheating by their students, according to a research paper. The figure emerged from a study that reveals dramatic variations in what academics...
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Unions boycott pay talks
Three campus trade unions have walked out of pay talks at Bath University after managers excused themselves and other senior staff from the controversial "job evaluations" that their less-elevated...
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Belfast bids for silent nights
Thursday is the worst night, say the long-term residents of Belfast's Holyland, a square kilometre of small houses close to Queen's University Belfast. That is party night - the evening before the...
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Fears of A-level reprieve grow
The Government risks missing an historic opportunity to help poor people into higher education if it fails to back the Tomlinson proposals to reform school qualifications, it was claimed this week....
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Bang the drum
Sheffield Hallam University's new student union opens this month - based in the silver drum buildings that once housed the National Centre for Popular Music. The Hallam Union Building of Sheffield...
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Are you a historian with telly vision?
The recipe for blending showmanship with scholarship to make the perfect TV don was revealed by the controller of the BBC's arts channel this week. Janice Hadlow, controller of BBC Four, gave a...
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Let's have top-ups but no Offa, say Welsh v-cs
Welsh vice-chancellors have called for the introduction of top-up fees in Wales without an English-style student access regulator. Vice-chancellors have told Welsh Assembly members that there is "no...
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Swingeing spin-off tax threat is lifted
Academics thinking of setting up spin-off companies breathed a sigh of relief this week as the threat of upfront multimillion-pound tax bills was removed. The Inland Revenue has published fresh...
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Women still low on list
Women make up just 15 per cent of university professors, figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency reveal. According to Hesa's 2003-04 staff data analysis, the proportion of female...
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Strike over pensions
Lecturers' union Natfhe may join other trade unions in a mass one-day strike over government plans to raise the normal pension age from 60 to 65. Natfhe is to ballot its 65,000 members recommending...