Bristol suffers in row fallout
The row over Bristol University's decision to offer lower entrance grades to disadvantaged state-school pupils has been followed by a drop in the number of applications, according to figures out this...
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Staff may be vetted if under-18s admitted
University staff could be vetted by the Criminal Records Bureau if proposed reforms of the school-exam system lead to more under-18s applying to higher education, it emerged this week. The Tomlinson...
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Next week
Textbook guide 16 pages of reviews of the latest textbooks. Also The fate of Indians in the Amazon : A review of John Hemming's Die if you Must. Books focus : Women's and gender studies Back to the...
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Public not so anti-GM
The government's public debate about genetic modification overestimated the strength of anti-GM feeling in the UK, new research has found. Researchers at Cardiff University, the University of East...
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Sport still on track
Southampton University said this week that it had made no decisions over the future of its sports courses after media reports that hundreds of students were likely to be "farmed out" to local...
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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