Ethics scrutiny found wanting
Ethical scrutiny of university research is patchy despite the fact that more institutions than ever have committees to vet projects, according to a new study. The survey, funded by the Nuffield...
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Wellcome embraces open-access future
All researchers funded by Britain's biggest biomedical charity, the Wellcome Trust, may be required to make their articles freely available, according to radical changes announced this week. Until...
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Offa deadlines to hit prospectuses
Universities will be told next week that they face a March 2005 deadline to reveal their plans for bursaries, perks and outreach schemes for students in 2006. Sir Martin Harris, director of the...
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Writing prize heads north
Heather Leach, senior lecturer in contemporary arts at Manchester Metropolitan University, has won this year's Palgrave Macmillan/ Times Higher humanities and social sciences writing prize. Dr Leach...
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Sutton Trust highlights success of outreach efforts amid controversy
The "spurious debate" about social engineering in higher education has overshadowed the fact that 15,000 extra state-school pupils have gained places at top research universities over the past five...
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Dr/DJ samples two sides of life in career mix
At first glance, the life of an academic appears to exist at a polar opposite to that of a DJ. One involves spending hours in solitary and silent study, the other late nights in smoky clubs with...
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Biobank council named
Seven senior academics have been appointed to the council that advises UK Biobank, Britain's first DNA databank. The ambitious project is designed to help scientists understand how genes interact...
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Napier in China tie-up
Joan Stringer, the principal of Napier University in Edinburgh, has unveiled plans for a joint college with Shandong University of Finance in China that would allow Chinese students to study for a...
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Just say 'Yuck!' to fight disease
Deaths from infectious disease could be reduced by stimulating people's "yuck response", a disease control expert believes. Val Curtis, director of the hygiene centre at the London School of Hygiene...
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Hard sell 'is acceptable'
Universities must adapt to the modern consumer culture and should not be shy of "courting" prospective students and their parents through the hard sell, the admissions dean at a top US university...
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Graduates paid big bucks and peanuts
Graduate salaries span a startlingly wide range, with a fortunate handful earning more than £40,000 a year in their first jobs but a considerable number on less than £10,000, according to latest...
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Oxford bid to halve tutorials is slated
The Oxford tutorial system - in which students have traditionally received one-to-one tuition from academics - is facing major cutbacks amid concerns that students are being "overtaught" at the...
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Eggheads
Napier University students are going to work in an egg with the opening of a £30 million redeveloped business and law campus. The Craiglockhart campus features an egg-shaped 200-seat lecture theatre...
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Northern Ireland split over top-ups
Proposals announced last week to charge top-up fees for students in Northern Ireland have divided the two universities in the province. Despite across-the-board opposition from the suspended...
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Senior academics under fire for suspending student hackers
Three senior academics at Oxford University were accused this week of harshly treating two student journalists, who have been suspended after they uncovered major security flaws in the university's...