Rainbow fund to help spin-offs to pot of gold
The government has launched its first seed-capital fund, designed to help start spin-off companies from public research laboratories. The £4 million Rainbow fund will make investments in individual...
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Champion sought for post-16 learning unit
The government announced this week that it is seeking a "further education champion" to run a new unit devoted to raising standards in post-16 learning. The unit will be responsible for standards and...
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Woman withdraws case against principal
Elaine McGonigle, a former St Andrews University employee who accused principal Brian Lang of sexual harassment and bullying, this week settled her dispute with the university only minutes before the...
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Hefce names teachers at the top of their class
Twenty lecturers who have won £50,000 each in the third annual national teaching fellowship scheme run by the Higher Education Funding Council for England were announced this week. They are: Diane...
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Linguist analyses how jokes raise a laugh
Graeme Ritchie of Edinburgh University's division of informatics is taking a serious look at how jokes work, dismantling and analysing the language they use. He hopes to take existing concepts from...
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Lack of support kills dreams
Schools and the costs of study are turning young people off higher education, it emerged this week. The supposedly elitist image of universities is not to blame. A MORI poll published on Wednesday...
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'Overhaul foundation degree structure'
The funding of and regulations for foundation degrees need to be overhauled if government targets for boosting skills and widening participation are to be met, policy-makers have been warned....
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Survey shows real-terms cut
One in five higher education institutions will suffer a real-terms cut in funding next year, a survey by Universities UK has found, writes Alan Thomson. It means that about 20 universities and higher...
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Warwick hints at higher fees
University chiefs have given their clearest indication yet that they favour higher tuition fees for students, writes Alan Thomson. Baroness Warwick, chief executive of Universities UK, told MPs this...
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Local union row threatens national talks
Relations between two of the chief negotiators in national talks on lecturers' terms and conditions have all but collapsed, threatening the progress of the new joint negotiating machinery. Jill Jones...
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Unit head hits back after MPs' broadside
The head of the university research unit that is under fire from MPs for its "confused" and "untrue" criticisms of the government's private finance initiative has described the MPs' attack as a...
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Jobs must go to make UK books balance
Universities up and down Britain this week announced job cuts as they struggled to balance their books in the face of falling student numbers and budget cuts. Staff at the University of Manchester...
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Whistleblower: Oxford glossed ruling of inquiry, says lawyer
An Oxford legal don has said that the university was wrong to suggest in a public statement that it had been vindicated by a special inquiry into the forced ejection of an international scholar. John...
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Whistleblower: UCE takes action against lecturer
The failed lecturer who sells essays to students to help them get through university faces legal action from her former employer, the University of Central England, after a THES investigation found...
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Protest highlights student digs issue
Students at the University of Surrey protested last week against proposed rent rises on campus of 24 per cent over the next four years. But the problem of soaring student accommodation costs is not...