17 deal blow to ombudsman
The credibility of the long-awaited scheme designed to provide a fair and transparent system for handling student grievances is being undermined by a host of universities failing to sign up. At least...
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Cash crises lead to student depression
Financial pressures are driving many students to depression and blighting their academic results, according to a survey. Research to be presented at the British Psychological Society's annual...
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Church stymies Ulster plans
The Catholic Church has scuppered Ulster University's plans to expand in Northern Ireland's second city, Londonderry, writes Noel McAdam. UU had originally planned to set up a research centre on the...
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Religious divisions rife in NI
Almost half of young people living in Catholic areas and a third from Protestant areas in Northern Ireland have no friends from the other religious community, a poll of more than 900 16-year-olds...
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City law firms switch legal practice providers
Leading City of London law firms have abandoned a lucrative partnership with three British universities branded "elitist" by the Lord Chief Justice. Oxford, Oxford Brookes and Nottingham Trent...
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Focus drama: A subject directed to take up less space
The training of 'creative thinkers' is threatened by cost-cutting, says Tony Tysome Drama academics fear that funding changes to their discipline could undo much of its development and growth of the...
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Royal Shakespeare Company urged to regain its cutting edge
The Royal Shakespeare Company, once at the cutting edge of drama, needs to remake its case as an institution worthy of academics' attention, a researcher and former RSC employee argues in a new book...
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Spouses win pay for efforts
US universities and colleges are increasingly formalising the workload that falls to the spouses of their presidents by putting them on the payroll. Nearly a quarter of presidential spouses surveyed...
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Zimbabweans in deep despair
Poor pay, corruption, inadequate government funding, student unrest and high staff turnover are taking their toll on Zimbabwe University. A month-long strike by lecturers and other workers at the...
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South Africa brand crisis
South Africa's universities are facing an identity crisis after changes to the sector that have reduced the number of institutions from 36 to 23 and introduced new names for many universities. A...
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Dublin's EUI may face legal action
The Irish government is considering taking legal action against the European University of Ireland (EUI) which operates out of an accommodation address in a run-down part of Dublin. The company has a...
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Zapatero backs stem-cell work
Spanish stem-cell research is likely to get more encouragement from the incoming socialist government of Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, following the confused and sometimes hostile stance adopted by...
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Conviction fuels fears for academic freedom
The conviction of a Moscow arms control researcher for high treason has raised fears of renewed Soviet-style restrictions on academic freedom and foreign links. Igor Sutyagin of Moscow's USA-Canada...
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Paris
François Fillon, France's new minister for education and research, has given in to researchers' demands to restore axed jobs. Last week he announced the creation of 1,550 tenured posts between now...