Staff '£50K worse off'
Key university staff will be almost £50,000 worse off as their pay is eroded under the deal offered by employers, the Association of University Teachers said this week. The union has calculated that...
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Pensions drop £6 billion
University pension-scheme members have been told that their fund has lost £30,000 per member since 2000, a total loss of £6 billion. Peter Moon, chief investment officer at the Universities'...
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Award-winning insight
A THES profile of transplant pioneer Sir Roy Calne, published in April, has won journalist Karen Gold first prize in the Medical Journalism Awards 2003. The judges praised "a delightfully written and...
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AUT criticises Keele
Union leaders have condemned the latest plans from Keele University to separate the management and funding of its teaching and research. The Association of University Teachers warned that nothing in...
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Student satisfaction
The largest ever student satisfaction survey has found that 94 per cent of those in further education are satisfied with their learning experience. The Learning and Skills Council survey of 4 million...
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Research lost in fire
Years of pioneering research into sporting performance has been lost in a blaze causing millions of pounds worth of damage at Strathclyde University. More than 100 firefighters battled the fire,...
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Erasmus cash agreed
A compromise has ended months of wrangling over the budget for the European Union new Erasmus Mundus programme. EU education ministers this week backed a compromise €230 million (£160 million) upper...
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Archaeologists told to stop having a dig at TV
Archaeologists should stop moaning about TV's fascination with archaeology and enjoy the golden age of televised digs and historic reconstructions, a study has concluded, writes Steve Farrar. Despite...
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V-cs back 'university title' plans but doubts remain
Vice-chancellors have backed calls to abandon the requirement that organisations have at least 4,000 students and a broad spread of subjects before they can qualify for the title "university",...
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Melville calls for a single watchdog
A single giant standards agency should be created through a merger between the Quality Assurance Agency and the government's schools exam watchdog, the chairman of the University Vocational Awards...
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Access undermined by 'unfair' system
The government's drive to widen access to higher education through the college sector is being undermined by an "unfair" quality-assurance system, the Association of Colleges has warned, writes Tony...
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Private degree market stifled
Governments should avoid over-regulating the "inexorable rise" of private, profit-making higher education businesses, according to the Association of Commonwealth Universities. Roger King, the first...
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Performers must face music and write
Arts and humanities research chiefs have infuriated musicians with a declaration that their performances cannot be classified as research. In a paper that seeks to draw a line under the acrimonious...
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'Dreary' Dundee is the place to be
Dundee University is the best UK scientific institution to work in, according to the results of an international survey of life scientists. A survey of several thousand researchers by the journal The...
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Academics arrested in Zimbabwe protests
John Makumbe, a political scientist at the University of Zimbabwe and head of the local branch of Transparency International, has been arrested just weeks after warning that civil society was to...