Staff strike for London weighting
Four higher education unions joined forces yesterday to strike over London weighting payments. The action in the capital was complete with a cavalcade containing a stretch limousine of "fat-cat vice-...
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Nobels join UCL protest
Three Nobel laureates, two fellows of University College London and a High Court judge have all signed a petition expressing concern at the proposal to merge with Imperial College London. More than...
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Axe falls on faculty
Fine art students at Lincoln University are protesting today following news that their degree is being axed along with 12 staff out of the current faculty of 13. "How can we be expected to complete...
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Christmas comes early
Portsmouth University is giving all its staff a £250 Christmas bonus as a thank you for their help in keeping the university in the black. They are also celebrating a 15 per cent increase in...
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Aston best for business
Aston University's Business School has been rated as Europe's best by The Economist Intelligence Unit's "Which MBA" guide. It scored 90 per cent in rankings based on the opinions of present and...
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Asteroid hit-site found
Aberdeen University scientists have discovered evidence near Bristol of a massive prehistoric explosion that they believe was caused by an asteroid striking the Earth 214 million years ago.
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Genome campus grows
The Wellcome Trust has received planning permission to extend its genome campus just outside Cambridge. The Hinxton site, home to the Sanger Centre, will be extended by ,000sq m and will include...
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Scots get more open
Relations between policy-makers and academic researchers appear to be improving north of the border with the Scottish Parliament's commitment to more openness, according to David Raffe of Edinburgh...
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Nervous colleges demand clarity over missions
College heads expect education secretary Charles Clarke to explain the government's plans for restructuring further education when he addresses their annual conference next week. They hope that he...
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Oxford head warns of charity reform threat
The head of an Oxford college has called government reforms of the charitable sector "sheer political cheek" and a threat to academic autonomy. The reforms could lead to Oxbridge colleges presenting...
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Lifestyle lures Brits to study Down Under
The number of students leaving Britain's rainy shores to study at Australian universities has leapt by 44 per cent in the past year, new figures show. This year, 1,710 UK students opted for courses...
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It almost took until Domesday to finish...
More than 20 years of painstaking work has finally borne fruit at the University of Hull where three academics have managed to produce the world's first electronic Domesday Book . The digital version...
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Plymouth to close sites in drive to join elite
Plymouth University plans to close its Seale-Hayne agricultural centre and is pulling out of Exeter as part of a major shake-up. Vice-chancellor Roland Levinsky said this week that the university was...
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Analysis: Those 'Mickey Mouse' degrees are having the last laugh
It is not just medicine and law that prove popular with students and employers, 'quasi-academic' degrees are winning favour. The THES reports. Critics of media studies and other non-traditional...
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Further education: Milk, eggs, IT skills...
Fancy nipping to Sainsbury's to learn how to send an email? Welcome to learning for all, says John Harwood. About 65,000 students are studying higher education courses at further education colleges...