A few things bound to dampen your party spirit
Academics have little to celebrate as Labour reaches its fifth year in power, says Stephen Court Today is the first anniversary of new Labour's second administration and - for higher education - the...
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A divisive strategy
Labour is promoting a three-tier system with a white, middle-class elite, argues Patrick Ainley There is no need for the Higher Education Funding Council for England to survey academic opinion on the...
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Knowledge is a team pursuit
It is time to restore communal values to academia, writes Ros Ollin As universities suffer from the repeated fragmentation and division caused by government policy experiments, a lack of shared...
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Why I...recommend fudging the 'happy sheets'
The government's explicit mantra was "education, education, education", but some believe history has proved it to be more like "evaluation, evaluation, evaluation". Teachers and lecturers now face...
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Cuts at Defra condemned
Across-the-board cuts in research at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs have been condemned by science campaigners. The first joint research budget for the merged Ministry of...
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Institutions bid for World Cup glory
Beckham, Henry and Ronaldo are not the only ones looking for glory in the World Cup. Their counterparts in university media relations have been working hard to highlight links between their...
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Racial quota plan to boost black enrolments
Days after announcing plans to cut the number of South African tertiary institutions from 36 to 21, education minister Kader Asmal this week warned that he may introduce a racial quota system if...
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Online course keeps civil servants at desks
Top civil servants are learning on the job thanks to an online leadership skills programme developed by Lancaster University Management School. The "Prime Leadership" package is designed to hone...
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Degrees of fitness rise with education levels
People with more education have better physical and mental health, according to a study from London University's Institute of Education. The study, carried out in the UK, Europe, Australia, the US,...
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OU's summer model adds to Stirling beauty
Stirling University claims it has the UK's most beautiful campus, and it will now be able to add that the students at its annual Open University summer school look pretty good, too. The Open...
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Biology in terminal condition
Biology is heading for a crisis as undergraduate applications continue to plummet, heads of biological science schools have been warned. Robin Dunbar, professor of evolutionary psychology and...
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Edinburgh in revamp
Edinburgh University has appointed a businessman with expertise in managing change to run its finance, human resources and estates services as part of a radical American-style restructuring. Nigel...
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Union warns of harmful staff cut
Academics at Newcastle University have warned that a round of redundancies announced last week will damage the student experience. The university said redundancies were needed to achieve the next...
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Findings: Nose knows how you feel
Being good at understanding how others feel has usually been associated with lending a friendly ear. But research from an American neuropsychologist suggests lending a friendly nostril could be far...
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Findings: How to net more saves
It may come too late to help England's chances in the World Cup, but researchers at Greenwich University have isolated key visual clues to help goalkeepers improve their chances of saving a penalty,...