Protest over parking
Students took to the streets in Northern Ireland this week - in their cars. Ulster University undergraduates and staff from the three main campuses parked in streets around the sites to protest...
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Resistance to cuts
Swansea University managers came under renewed pressure this week to abandon restructuring plans that would lead to the closure of four departments. More than a hundred students protested as Richard...
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Mass strike planned
Lecturers at 12 further education colleges have voted in favour of industrial action next Thursday in protest at their institutions' failure to honour a national pay agreement. Lecturers' union...
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Degree for rebel poet
Benjamin Zephaniah, the poet who turned down an OBE in the New year's honours list, has accepted an honorary degree from Leicester University. Accepting a doctor of letters degree, he said: "...
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Poetry centre opens
Queen's University Belfast has opened a £3 million Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry, which aims to be an international base for literary research and creative writing. Its first director, Ciaran...
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Clarification
Rye Hill College, Newcastle, pictured on page 4 of last week's issue, is not one of the college's running courses failed by the Quality Assurance Agency.
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It's ten seconds to lift-off but ten years to target
A leading British scientist is about to relive the tension and excitement of Beagle 2 when Europe's Rosetta spacecraft begins a long journey across the solar system to meet a comet. Ian Wright,...
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Charities threaten to take cash overseas
Universities must adopt a less arrogant attitude to charitable research funding or risk losing it altogether, the Association of Medical Research Charities warned this week. Members of the group,...
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RAE loophole closed but confusion remains
Funding chiefs have moved to close a loophole that could allow game-playing in the next research assessment exercise, scheduled for 2008, by continuing to exclude less-prestigious researchers. But...
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Vice-chancellor and top academic pay 2002-03
Please click the link below to view the full results table in the statistics section of the website: Vice-chancellor and top academic pay 2002-03
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V-c pay survey: Thriving v-cs net 6.1% rise in wages
Some 130 vice-chancellors and higher education heads have accepted larger pay rises than they offered staff, according to an analysis by The Times Higher . While the median pay rise for vice-...
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V-c pay survey: 60% rise for Aberdeen's Rice
Duncan Rice, principal of Aberdeen University, received the biggest pay rise among vice-chancellors this year. His salary leapt almost 60 per cent to £235,000 through a one-off £70,000 payment to...
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V-c pay survey: Pay-out leaves staff up in arms
Academics at Edinburgh University are demanding an independent inquiry into pension payments of almost £130,000 to Lord Sutherland, who stepped down from the Edinburgh principal-ship in 2002. The...
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V-c pay survey: Lecturers are left lagging when it comes to reward
Percentage pay increases for the highest-earning vice-chancellors have been nearly three times the size of those for senior lecturers over the past decade, according to the Association of University...
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Bullying rife for medics in academia
Doctors who hold academic research posts are regularly subjected to bullying at work, according to a new study, writes Anna Fazackerley. The survey, which was published in the British Medical Journal...