Welsh low on agenda
Higher education in Wales is not taking the Welsh language seriously and is putting its survival at risk, Richard Wyn Jones, director of the Institute of Welsh Politics at the University of Wales,...
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Lane's Singapore fling
Internationally renowned cancer researcher Sir David Lane will take a two-year sabbatical from Dundee University to head the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Singapore. Sir David said the...
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Zionism thesis stirs up a storm
Reverend Stephen Sizer may have expected that his controversial thesis on Christianity's role in the Middle East conflict would cause a few ripples. But the Church of England vicar could hardly have...
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Imperial's breakaway brings £2 bounty
Imperial College London's decision to break away from national pay bargaining has proven to be a "a spectacular flop", the main union for academics claimed this week, writes Phil Baty. Imperial...
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Local pay plan sparks boycott call
Nottingham University is facing a global academic boycott in time for freshers' week next month in protest over its plans to introduce local pay arrangements for non-academic staff. Sally Hunt,...
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Anglia v-c to revamp brand
East Anglia is waking up and shaking up its provision for local learners A brand revamp - but not a name change - is on the cards for Anglia Polytechnic University as part of its new vice-chancellor'...
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Peterborough wins cash in effort to change status
East Anglia is waking up and shaking up its provision for local learners Peterborough Regional College has taken the first step towards achieving university status by securing funding to expand its...
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Liberal-arts education impresses in its scope
Laura Spence advocates undergraduate study in the US as rising numbers of sixthform students consider turning their backs on universities in the UK Wary of the media spotlight and guarded about her...
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Flagship website faces further delay
Ministers said it would be the essential tool to help would-be students find the right university course amid the confusion of peer pressure, parent power, prejudice and the inflated claims of glossy...
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The lure of broad horizons
Laura Spence advocates undergraduate study in the US as rising numbers of sixthform students consider turning their backs on universities in the UK The temptation to take a degree in the US is...
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Graduates can spur reform
Twenty thousand Scottish further and higher education students completing their studies this summer are being asked to take part in a survey that could transform university and college courses. The...
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'Not many scientists can claim immortality'
Francis Crick, the scientist who unlocked the secret of DNA, may have achieved the ultimate prize - immortality. Academics across the disciplines and on both sides of the Atlantic this week talked to...
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Tuneful wrens throw a warbly
The show song Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better might have been written about duetting South American wrens, which, researchers have discovered, defend their territories by out-singing their...
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Natfhe's anger at pressure to pass students
Lecturers are under increasing pressure to pass students who should fail because universities need the money they bring in, a lecturers' union warned this week. The warning from Natfhe follows...
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Cambridge deficit set to grow
Cambridge and the Open universities are once again among the top five higher education institutions with the biggest deficits. Although Cambridge has cut its deficit by almost £1.5 million, it was...