Scots colleges return to the black
Scottish colleges have seen a deficit of more than £14 million turn into a £2.3 million surplus in one year. The financial watchdog Audit Scotland says the majority of Scotland's 42 colleges of...
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Lambert calls for £200m to aid industry research
* Extra cash for new funding stream * Better-run universities should get greater financial freedoms * Code of conduct for governance established The government should plough up to £200 million more...
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When good work is not rewarded
A unique Greenwich University research centre could be hit by funding policies despite its exemplary work with industry, according to the Lambert report. Greenwich's Wolfson Centre for Bulk Solids...
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Best thing since sliced bread fails
It might have been the best thing since sliced bread - a loaf. The concept that Michael Emes and colleagues at Manchester University proposed - genetically modifying wheat to alter its starch quality...
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Recommendations in full
Demand for research from business * Businesses should establish a high-level forum to enhance technical innovation in business * The government should direct a high proportion of its support for...
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Crossing the divide
Liverpool John Moores University is leading a consortium that aims to include entrepreneurship in student work experience. The consortium has set up a free brokerage service called the Business...
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Study renaissance for 17,000 Dutch 'silver-tops'
Holland has experienced huge growth in higher education courses for the country's growing population of over-50s, or "silver-tops". The first course for over-50s opened in 1986 at the University of...
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EU labs may pull in cash
A European Union scheme for tight Europe-wide controls on industrial chemicals will offer universities a new revenue stream, officials in Brussels predict. David Wilkinson, head of the scientific...
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Canberra wins top-up fight by skin of teeth
The Australian government has finally succeeded in getting some of its higher education reforms - including top-up fees - through both houses of parliament. After six months of debate and fierce...
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Fury at US student visa charges...
The US government is expected to begin charging a $100 (£57.00) fee to applicants for student visas for conducting more comprehensive reviews that are making it time-consuming and difficult to come...
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...But researchers from EU keep on coming
US universities and research jobs are attracting growing numbers of European Union researchers, according to a European Commission report on the continuing transatlantic "brain-drain". Highly...
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No room at the institute
Students at the University of Baghdad are sleeping on floors in classrooms because accommodation blocks have been taken over by the occupying forces and the city's homeless. The issue is causing...
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Spanish rectors oppose accreditation system
Spanish university rectors have criticised a new staff-appointments system that has led to a soaring number of successful appeals against decisions made by the body that considers part-time lecturers...
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Overlooked Nobel advertises his plight
A pioneer of magnetic resonance imaging who missed out on a share of the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine has stepped up his campaign to gain recognition, spending about £150,000 on adverts in...
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Today's news
University chief lambasts Tories over fees Terence Kealey, the vice-chancellor of the University of Buckingham, said the Conservative party's opposition to the government's op-up fee plan was "...