Maths research is 'world-class'
Key areas of mathematics research could get new money from the research councils and other backers in response to an international report on the strengths and weaknesses of the UK academic maths...
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Results held in jobs row
Lecturers at Northumbria University plan to withhold students' exam marks as the latest step in their protest over redundancies. Last Thursday, about 200 lecturers attended a one-day strike and rally...
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Student-staffed call centres to spread through UK
A rapidly growing call-centre business set up by academics in Leeds is to be franchised out to other universities, writes Alison Utley. Just three years after its launch, Universatile Net Centres...
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Uphold morals, industry tells v-cs
Vice-chancellors and influential academics should be as prepared as church leaders to take a public stance on moral issues and to oppose policies that threaten the "fundamental values" of higher...
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Doling out marks for bad behaviour is not our job, protests history don
Any attempt to build moral and ethical teaching into a history degree is likely to run into significant problems, warns Christopher Haigh, who chairs Oxford University's faculty board of modern...
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Could problem-solving mould revive decaying UK transport?
The problem-solving prowess of a primitive single-celled organism could soon be helping design communication networks, transport systems and public utility distribution. Scientists have found that...
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Aberdeen to axe 80 staff
Managers at Aberdeen University may resort to compulsory redundancies in a bid to shed about 80 posts because they have given staff too little time to go voluntarily, union leaders fear. The...
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Library maps out curious medieval world
An "extraordinarily important" series of medieval maps known as the Book of Curiosities of the Sciences and Marvels for the Eyes has gone on display for the first time at the Bodleian Library in...
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MPs to probe e-uni collapse
MPs are to grill higher education funding chiefs over whether they should have intervened earlier to rescue the ill-fated e-university project - as a leading expert questions the value of the venture...
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Call to 'grasp' online learning opportunities
Inadequate planning and a reluctance to break with tradition are hindering universities from exploiting the potential of e-learning, a senior academic has warned. Mary Malcolm, professor of lifelong...
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Rich bias in foreign recruiting attacked
Britain's success in recruiting overseas students places too much emphasis on attracting the wealthy who can afford full fees at the expense of the poor who need more scholarship support, MPs heard...
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£3m promised to strengthen UKlinks with third world
Ministers have pledged to provide up to £3 million a year to foster links between UK universities and their counterparts in developing countries. Hilary Benn, the international development secretary...
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Indian alumnus sets up bursaries at Christ's
The head of one of India's largest pharmaceutical companies has established a £250,000 bursary scheme to help students from developing countries to study at Cambridge University, writes Paul Hill....
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British Council offices raided
Armed tax police have raided British Council offices in Moscow and eight of its other centres across Russia in a dispute over earnings from English-language teaching. The move, which is an apparent...
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Otago
Academics and other staff at Otago University have been issued with pre-emptive suspension notices 24 hours before they were due to walk out in protest at stalled pay negotiations. Unions are...