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...
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MRC cash boost gives researchers new hope
The Medical Research Council took a major step towards winning back a disgruntled research community with last week's unveiling of a radical overhaul of its funding system, which includes the return...
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Serial appliers could be shamed
Universities could be named and shamed if they make too many unsuccessful research council grant applications, it emerged this week, writes Anna Fazackerley. Research Councils UK, the umbrella body...
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Flaws in marking revealed by QAA
Exam questions that fail to challenge students as well as questions that are repeated year after year are among the poor assessment practices that continue to threaten standards on university courses...
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Accidental impostor bolts before China bluff is exposed
An Oxford University student sent to China last week on an all-expenses-paid lecturing trip arrived to find that the Beijing institution had mistaken him for a US professor with the same name....
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Oxford cashes in on IP and opens £60m lab
Oxford University's £60 million chemistry research laboratory, opened by the Queen this week, has been financed by a unique deal with a city firm. A third of the funding for the building has come...
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UK innovators outclass US
Income from new inventions and business collaborations is soaring in UK universities, a survey has shown. The third annual survey of higher education business links, carried out by the Higher...
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British charges are highest in Commonwealth
UK universities charge international students the highest fees in the Commonwealth - almost 50 per cent more than rival institutions in Australia and New Zealand. The survey of 180 institutions...
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Scots are edgy over top-ups
Scottish universities are seeking guarantees of extra government funds to help them stay competitive as England anticipates extra cash through top-up fees. Jim Wallace, Scotland's minister for...
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Apathy is no laughing matter
Apathy has sunk to a new low at Glasgow University, where students have failed to nominate anyone for the post of rector, their representative on the university court, writes Olga Wojtas. The court...