Russell engineers a win
An engineer who cut his student failure rate by 30 per cent in one year is the winner of the third e-tutor of the year award sponsored by The THES and the Learning and Teaching Support Network. Mark...
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Scots to lure foreign talent
Scottish universities hope to boost overseas student recruitment under plans being discussed by the Scottish Executive and Home Office, writes Olga Wojtas. There is growing speculation that the...
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Whistleblowers: Review finds Oxford Brookes 'deficient'
A group of students seeking tens of thousands of pounds in compensation after Oxford Brookes University failed to gain professional accreditation for their vocational degree have had their case...
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'High-fliers are more fun'
High-flying students who gain first-class degrees enjoy their courses more than their lower-achieving classmates and do much less paid work, according to a survey of more than 4,000 undergraduates....
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Address student stress, NHS told
The National Health Service must do more to help students with mental health problems, a leading psychiatrist said this week. Mike Hobbs, chair of the Student Mental Health Working Group at the Royal...
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Scare tactics silence science
Animal-rights extremists have made a whole generation of scientists too afraid to speak about their research. But they are being encouraged to fight back. Anna Fazackerley reports. Plans for a prize...
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Hastings hub site opens up access
A higher education outpost was opened in Hastings, East Sussex, this week by Alan Johnson, the higher education minister. University Centre Hastings aims to consolidate higher education provision in...
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Paisley party wants to lose HE department
The department for universities and further education in Northern Ireland could prove a casualty of the review of the Good Friday Agreement that began this week. The Reverend Ian Paisley's Democratic...
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Britain rallies to Iraqi cause
The isolation felt by academics at Iraqi universities will ease next week when 12 deans and other managers arrive in Birmingham for the first of a series of training programmes for administrators. A...
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Female educationists come top of the giving league
Clear evidence that education tends to attract people with a philanthropic bent has come from a study of charitable legacies in Northern Ireland since 1930. Educationists comprised the most generous...
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Why I ...believe US visa restrictions will damage science
My husband and I are scientists who emigrated from Europe to the US in the 1960s, returned to Europe for nine years in the 1990s and were then recruited by an American university as senior professors...
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California dreaming
UK higher education faces a far more fundamental problem than top-up fees, writes Trevor Smith The higher education bill sneaked through its Commons second reading with a minuscule majority and its...
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Give part-timers full support
Part-time students play a crucial role in our economy and should be funded accordingly, writes David Latchman More than 40 per cent of students in higher education study part time, and it is...
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TUC polices pay scrum
The Trades Union Congress will intervene to calm hostilities between university trade unions after open warfare broke out this week over pay. Chris Kaufman, who chairs the joint trade unions'...
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Science 'needs to shoot for Mars'
UK science risks stagnation unless it joins the push to send astronauts and robots to Mars, experts have claimed. Scientists meeting this week urged the research councils to unite to persuade the...