Scots trio offers staff jobs boost
Dundee, St Andrews and Abertay Dundee universities have begun a joint career development venture that aims to combat the isolation, uncertainty or boredom that non-academic staff can experience. The...
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College collects for unpaid housing bill
King Alfred's College in Winchester has won a legal action against Southampton City Council over unpaid accommodation bills for the Millennium Youth Games. The higher education college sued the...
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Nurse gets ticket for New York
Cancer Research UK chief executive Paul Nurse is leaving the charity at the end of November to become president of Rockefeller University in New York. He said: "As difficult as it is to depart from...
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Oxford race wide open
Oxford University found itself without a front-runner for the job of chancellor this week after Baroness Williams pulled out in protest against top-up fees, and Bill Clinton appeared to have ruled...
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This lens does not lie
A high-tech camera that reads people's body language and could be the most accurate lie detector yet has been developed at Manchester Metropolitan University. The Silent Talker uses artificial...
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High cost of happiness
Andrew Oswald and Andrew Clark of the University of Warwick school of economics have worked out the cost of happiness - and it is very expensive. Their study calculates the financial value of the...
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Manager sentenced
The former chief purchasing officer of Oxford University was spared jail last week after she admitted stealing £31,065 from her employers to fund a shopping addiction. Patricia Whitehead, 58, bought...
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Campus pick-up
Oxford Brookes University has bought the 4.8-acre Milham Ford School near its Headington campus in a deal thought to be worth £10 million.
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Perfecting placements
The government has set up a £400,000 Practice Learning Task Force to ensure good quality work experience for social-work students. It will encourage placements in settings from police forces to...
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Italians furious at being left in dark over research reforms
Reforms to Italy's leading state research institutes have infuriated academics, who were not consulted. The reforms will cut the number of institutes from 19 to 12, give them fewer resources and...
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Bethlehem University struggles amid war
Students hurry to their classes across the white stone-faced courtyard of Bethlehem University. After two years of the intifada and two more days of Israeli-imposed curfew, the university's 2,070...
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Minister attacks Hebron closures
Hebron and Hebron Polytechnic universities in the West Bank remain closed, according to Palestine's deputy minister of higher education, Hisham Kuheil. But nine others were still functioning. Mr...
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Computer students learn art of hacking
Would-be computer hackers can now go to a German university to learn the art of breaking into other people's systems - and leave with a degree. The courses are being offered at the University of...
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Denmark ignores objections and proceeds with legislation
Denmark's universities and research community have had only limited success in changing plans for university reform. Commenting on legislation brought before parliament by the science minister, Linda...
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Boost for public recruits
Harvard University has vastly expanded the number of grants and low-interest loans available to students who agree to go into education, social service, public health and similar careers, writes Jon...