Abertay goes on critical list
Urgent action is necessary to assure degree standards at the University of Abertay Dundee, the Quality Assurance Agency has warned. Funding chiefs may intervene to supervise necessary reforms. Two...
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'Insulting' pay offer leads to a strike
Further education college lecturers have voted to back a two-day strike next week over an "insulting" 1.5 per cent pay offer from employers. An estimated 32,000 lecturers will leave classrooms empty...
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'Involve employers in making graduates employable'
There are serious mismatches between the expectations of academics and employers about the skills undergraduates should learn, according to a pilot survey by the Council for Industry and Higher...
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NI parties clash over student finance
Claims about a six-year delay on a review of student finance have sparked a political storm in Northern Ireland. Sinn Fein has alleged that a decision to put off a review until 2008 had already been...
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Homesick Dutch cope better
British students suffer from a high level of homesickness and female students suffer more than males, according to new research. A study by British and Dutch psychologists found that more than 80 per...
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Analysis: Clinical friends are good
A healthy partnership between universities and the NHS is essential to the reform of healthcare and to Labour's widening participation agenda. Claire Sanders reports on two such alliances. The Leeds...
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Bid to give business schools autonomy
Business schools should not be expected to prop up the rest of the university to which they are attached, says a report recently handed to the government. It calls for dialogue between business...
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Findings: Titanic victims in 'cold shock'
When the Titanic went down, it tipped 1,489 people into the icy Atlantic Ocean, writes Caroline Davis. Although all were wearing lifejackets and the water was calm, none survived longer than two...
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Findings: Volcano threat to climate
The possibility of asteroids or comets hitting Earth is considered a real threat, and investigation into their detection, deflection or destruction is high on most science agendas, writes Caroline...
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Merger will boost number of students in Bradford
Plans being drawn up for Bradford's radical new institution, created by merging the city's university and college, aim to raise student numbers in the city by at least 20 per cent. A draft...
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The borders of absurdity and fear
The EU's ambivalent immigration policy is driven by national insecurity and concern for the welfare state, which the far right exploits, says Andrew Geddes. There are two immigration Europes. One...
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Making it in a mass market
Critics have called it a 'McUniversity', but Phoenix University, founded by John Sperling (right) could be the most significant provider of mass-education in the world. Stephen Phillips reports....
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We're still skipping (working) class
In the last in our Pushing 50 series, Alison Wolf suggests that attempts to widen participation in higher education need to focus on schoolchildren long before they embark on A-level study. In 1963,...
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How the mouth took speech away from busy hands
Did our language evolve from hand gestures, and did we talk our fellow hominids to death? Michael Corballis looks at the evidence. It seems natural to suppose, as Charles Darwin did, that human...
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The cost of losing too many tongues
Each language is a new map of the world, and our knowledge of the world shrinks when a language dies, writes Andrew Dalby. "Once upon a time," according to the biblical story of Babel, "all the world...