Freedom in federation
More important than whether UCL and Imperial merge is whether they remain part of the University of London, argues Graham Zellick. Mergers are not new in the University of London. Over the past...
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Cost of merger is more than fees
If UCL and Imperial merge, it could spell the end for some of London's smaller colleges, warns Geoffrey Alderman. The proposal made by its rector Sir Richard Sykes, that Imperial College should...
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Salford airs fears after fire
After a fire destroyed part of its chemistry building on Sunday night, Salford University has urged fire-service unions to agree to respond to incidents in public institutions in the event of a...
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UK science 'unsustainable'
The Cross Cutting Review of Science and Research published this week describes the research funding situation in UK universities as "unsustainable in the medium to long term". It also warns that any...
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Imperial costs most in market
The market-rate tuition fee for a science degree is more than £10,000 a year at ten universities in the UK. The revelation comes a week after Imperial College, London, approved proposals to charge...
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Public trust is crumbling
Northern Ireland's peace process has been driven forward by politicians' lies and manipulation, and the discovery of this is undermining public trust in politics, according to Ulster University...
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Study finds aspiration, not cash, is key to selling campus life
Raising youngsters' aspirations is a more effective way of getting them into higher education than offering financial incentives, according to a US study. The work by Nobel laureate James Heckman and...
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Science robbed of £2bn
Universities subsidise research commissioned by outside bodies to the tune of £2 billion a year, it was revealed this week. The full extent of the funding gap emerged from an official review that did...
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Headteachers demand clarity on selection
Independent school heads are demanding further clarity on how universities select students. A statement issued yesterday by four independent schools' heads' associations says: "No government should...
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Next week
News Countdown to cash: first in a series setting out the issues faced by next month's white paper Features A day in the life of Mike Brown, vice-chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University; Keith...
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Choice managerial words
Fed-up with bureaucrat-ese? The THES wants to hear from you. Send examples of your favourite examples of management speak to mandy.garner@thes.co.uk We will publish the best.
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Sykes and two cities
"Sykes to bring science to the people" screamed the headline on an email arriving from the University of Bristol. Given that Sir Richard Sykes last week announced his intention to merge Imperial...
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Clean-living launch
Television historians clashed in Oxford this week as Tristram Hunt and Simon Schama launched their latest books. Dr Hunt is well known for his literalism: during his BBC series on the English civil...
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Cosmic injustice?
The passage of time seems not to have eased Jocelyn Bell Burnell's feelings about the 1974 Nobel prize for physics. Antony Hewish won it for the discovery of pulsars, the bizarre rotating remains of...
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Party poopers
Pub and club owners in Austria are threatening legal action against students who organise large student parties. Business owners, particularly in smaller cities such as Salzburg, have complained that...