Provost warns of designer culture
Students may increasingly choose a university in much the same way as people opt for designer clothes with the right "label", a former government economics adviser has warned. Sir Alan Budd, former...
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Welsh students condemn £16m cut in hardship support
Welsh Assembly plans to cut student access and hardship funds have been condemned by politicians and student union leaders. The assembly's planned budget for the next financial year shows a spending...
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Contract sparks row over IP rights
A Cambridge academic whose pioneering leukemia drug Campath generates more than £500,000 a year for the university this week revealed how the institution approved disclosure of his research results...
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Peer review rejig axed in crisis fear
Funding chiefs have abandoned plans to force universities to publish reports by their external examiners amid concerns that opening up the traditionally confidential peer-review system would plunge...
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Business makes £2m deal with York
York University has become the latest partner of private intellectual property company IP2IPO in a deal worth more than £2 million to the institution. The university's Centre for Novel Agricultural...
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Do as I say, not as I do
The prime minister's attitude to higher education is indicated in an extract from Robin Cook's recently published diaries. The former leader of the Commons writes: "Roy Hattersley tells me of an...
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Survey doesn't quite add up
Warwick Business School's MBA programme has been assessing how effective it is in creating the business leaders of tomorrow. Scott Dacko, lecturer in marketing and strategic management, asked...
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Show him the money
What exactly are the "supplementary payments for professors" listed in this week's Cambridge University Reporter ? The scheme was set up by former vice-chancellor Sir Alec Broers to recruit, reward...
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Why I ...believe Commonwealth studies has a lot to offer
Next week's conference of Commonwealth ministers of education in Edinburgh comes at a time of great challenges and stress in international relations. With its capacity for embracing, bridging and...
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Money matters in doing science that matters
Britain's Nobel wins mask its fall as a scientific power - and only more cash can reverse that, says Peter Lampl It's been a great year for Britons as far as Nobel prizes are concerned. This is the...
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Academic differences
Last weekend, BBC1's Panorama staged its own University Challenge with two teams battling it out over top-up fees. Interestingly, the schools representative on the pro top-up fees team happened to be...
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Don's diary: a writer wrestles his demons...
1998 A colleague who is editing a series suggests I write a book on student support. I am flattered but intimidated. "Of the making of many books there is no end," said that gloomy old homilist...
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GM's bitter harvest
Plant science in the UK is under threat and researchers are being driven abroad, says Mark Tester, who is off to more fertile ground Oversimplification in the debate on genetically modified crops has...
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United we stand on better pay
Collective national bargaining by university unions is essential, says Chris Kaufman As a member of the Bett committee and a frequent visitor to university campuses across the UK on behalf of the...
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Increase in mental illness on campus
Growing mental health problems among students are "a matter of considerable concern" and they warrant dedicated student mental-health services in some areas, according to a report from the Royal...