Experts probe handling of UKterror attacks
Terrorism experts at St Andrews and Southampton universities are to research the domestic management of terrorist attacks in the UK. The £250,000 study, funded by the Economic and Social Research...
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Bookies make Hawking favourite to scoop prize
Stephen Hawking, Lucasian professor at Cambridge University, has emerged as the bookies' favourite to take the Aventis prize for science books. The Universe in a Nutshell follows the success of A...
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Manure students nose out mucky details
A team of French academics has subjected the humble art of muck spreading to an unprecedented level of scientific analysis. Frédéric Cointault and colleagues at the University of Burgundy have...
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Fewer leavers secure jobs
Fewer university leavers went straight into employment last year, according to data published this week by the Higher Education Statistics Agency. Some 68 per cent of those who graduated last summer...
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Crisis in medics' training
Academic medicine is in crisis with one in ten professorial and senior clinical posts, and one in five lecturer posts, vacant, according to the Academy of Medical Sciences, writes Claire Sanders....
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Opt-out sounds 'death-knell' for languages
University language departments fear they cannot survive survive the impact of green paper proposals to make languages optional from age 14. Thousands of teenagers are expected to drop language...
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Debt rise puts fees on agenda at Oxford
Oxford University is to consider charging differential fees as a way of meeting its mounting deficit. Fees were discussed at a university council meeting on May 20 but the discussion was not included...
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Universities to help colleges target local needs
Universities will play a part in the "comprehensive reform" of 14-19 education and training outlined by education secretary Estelle Morris this week. They will join schools and employers as key...
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Scientists rail at unworthy peers
Significant numbers of physicists believe colleagues get an undeserved share of the credit for academic research publications, according to a survey. Two-thirds of scientists whose latest journal...
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Report urges radical change in Scottish funding
Scottish higher education is reacting cautiously to proposals for a radical new funding system that would reward institutions for their success in tackling government priorities. The Scottish Higher...
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Pay strikes set to cause chaos
Strike action could shut universities this autumn as unions representing tens of thousands of staff, from professors to cleaners, unite to reject an "insulting" 2.5 per cent pay increase when they...
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Societies fight for rent-free rights
Five learned societies may go to court over a demand to pay rent on government-owned offices that have been rent-free for more than 125 years. The societies are seeking legal advice on the strength...
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Red tape makes overseas scholars feel like 'prisoners' in UK
Many overseas students feel like "prisoners" in the UK as Home Office red tape leaves them without a passport for up to a year, MPs and student groups have said. Despite the streamlining of visa...
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Academic calls for withdrawal of health committee criticism
The academic at the centre of an increasingly personalised debate on the role of private finance in the National Health Service has rebutted criticisms from a committee of MPs. Allyson Pollock, head...
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Pensions crisis hits student unions
Student unions could risk financial ruin as they try to prevent the collapse of their £22 million pension scheme. The Students Union Superannuation Scheme has assets of only 50 per cent of its £46...