Graduate salaries increase
The average graduate starting salary is up 4 per cent to Pounds 18,330 this year, according to the Association of Graduate Recruiters. The best-paid jobs are in legal services, where the median...
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Call for new body to monitor maths skills
Engineers have called on the government to establish a standing committee for mathematics after a report commissioned by the Engineering Council showed that many students lack the basic mathematical...
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Blackstone criticises teaching awards
(Photograph) - Britain's first university teaching awards have failed to represent the contributions made by academics from ethnic minorities, according to Baroness Blackstone, the minister for...
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Principal to leave Bretton Hall College
The principal of Bretton Hall College, which is under investigation for financial irregularities, is to leave his post next month. A spokesman for the college said that Gordon Bell had stepped down...
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Minaret will be added to dreaming spires
Oxford City Council has decided to go ahead with permission for a new Islamic studies centre with a 100ft tower and dome to be built on playing fields belonging to Magdalen College. The plan had...
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MPs push to abolish 'elitist' Oxbridge MAs
A cross-party group of MPs has stepped up pressure on Oxford and Cambridge universities to stop selling MAs. Oxbridge's practice of handing out the MA to first degree-holders three years after they...
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Italy
Heads are called rectors and are elected by all full and associate professors. A rector's term of office is three years, but many are elected for a second and even a third term. Some non-professors...
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Bin the CV, pen a manifesto
Should heads of universities be appointed or elected? Harriet Swain finds the UK and Europe do things very differently All in favour: should heads of UK institutions be asked to add electoral skills...
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Student unions feel pinch
Jobs are being axed at struggling student unions, pitching members of Unison, the administrative staff union, against students. At Manchester Metropolitan University, the student union has made 14...
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Put e-university on hold, say consultants
The e-university must be delayed until the project is better thought out, funding chiefs acknowledged this week. Consultant Pricewaterhouse-Coopers has been asked to produce a more detailed business...
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60 per cent of lecturers complain of bullying
Six in ten university and college lecturers say that they have been bullied, according to a survey by lecturers' union Natfhe. The main forms of reported bullying are criticism (30 per cent), power...
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Moves to improve the welfare of lab animals
Two initiatives to improve the welfare of laboratory animals have been announced by the Medical Research Council. The MRC, which is committed to the use of animals in tackling health problems such as...
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Academics to embark on Titanic pub crawl
International and local Titanic experts are gathering in Southampton this week to relive the final moments before the great ship left harbour on its maiden and only voyage. As many of the conference...
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Cash now not next year, say lecturers
Five per cent pay rises are on the cards for lecturers in 2001-02 thanks to the extra Pounds 50 million earmarked for pay in the chancellor's Pounds 100 million spending review. But lecturing unions...
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Boost to sector is welcomed
Further education leaders were "delighted" that colleges will get an extra Pounds 50 million in 2001-02 to tackle their staff pay crisis. The Department for Education and Employment said the...