Time runs out on RAE options
Researchers are due to discover next week how much they will be funded following the research assessment exercise. Funding chiefs are considering several options that could penalise performance...
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How the 'small world' effect skews results
The research assessment exercise is biased owing to the "small world" effect, according to an analysis by Andrew Colman, an expert in game theory and cooperative reasoning at the University of...
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Jacks of all trades pave the way to participation
Widening access can be combined successfully with low dropout rates and excellence in teaching and research, according to an analysis by The THES . Some 30 UK universities do particularly well by...
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Access elite: Sheffield Hallam University
Academic staff: 3,138 Undergraduates: 19,028 Postgraduates: 5,368 Sheffield Hallam University attributes its success to giving priority to the interests of its students. A third live locally and...
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Access elite: Strathclyde University
Academic staff: 1,9 Undergraduates: 10,892 (Home: 10,2) Postgraduates: 2,098 (Home: 1,771) Pamela Brown, who is in the third year of a BA in psychology, came to Strathclyde University from a school...
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Achievement rates good but fall short of key targets
The percentage of students expected to graduate from different English universities varies from 48 per cent to 98 per cent, according to a report by the National Audit Office. Improving Student...
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Hard-up white men continue to elude recruiters
White males from the lowest social classes remain underrepresented in England's universities. They need to be recruited in large numbers to meet the government's expansion targets, according to the...
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Institutions attacked for bias against poor
Universities discriminate against the poor by rejecting qualified applicants from disadvantaged backgrounds, Parliament's public-spending watchdog has warned. Institutions also fail to make a proper...
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US offers cash to lure poor to college
Elite universities in the United States are putting money up front to encourage more students from less advantaged backgrounds to enrol as undergraduates. They have recognised that encouraging...
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Don's Diary: Excavations in Bahrain
Saturday The start of the working week in Bahrain and the final one of excavation as my research leave, and with it my grand-sounding post of archaeological adviser to the crown prince of Bahrain, is...
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In the news: Eva Baker
Eva Baker chairs the panel of international experts that revealed today that the astonishing improvement in A-level standards over the past two decades was probably genuine. But the panel said...
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Token gesture
Following a couple of hiccups - such as not spotting BSE and the recent outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease - the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, formerly known as the Ministry of...
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It's good to chalk
Two years after the Oxford University Natural History Museum replaced its blackboards, the switch is still causing uproar and is debated hotly at high-level university strategy meetings. The old...
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Relaxing regulations?
Academics brought to the end of their tether by endless red tape and bureaucracy can expect a sympathetic ear from the Cabinet Office review of university regulation. The Cabinet's Better Regulation...
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No room for rage
Tempers flared at the University of the West of England last term. Rod Coleman, director of the modular scheme at the univer-sity, last week issued the following memo on changeovers between sessions...