A laggard. Swansea University
...this is the tiny proportion of ethnic minority and female professors employed in Britain's universities. Helen Hague reports on how the statistics published today could help in the battle against...
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Breaking a conspiracy of silence
Kay Jamison wants more done to combat student suicides. Olga Wojtas reports. Kay Redfield Jamison, professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins Medical School, Baltimore, exudes cool, patrician...
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Pounds 1m says our policy's right
New Labour is keen to fund social science research, but there are fears that the money is being offered with strings attached. Phil Baty reports. New Labour says it wants to take social science...
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Why didn't council appoint architect of programme?
Some social scientists fear that their own research council, the ESRC, is becoming a lap dog to new Labour. For James Mitchell, professor of politics at Sheffield University, this tendency is...
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Archaeology in rubber suits
A shipwrecked pirate chaser off Mull has given an insight into another age. Olga Wojtas reports. At the age of 60, Colin Martin, reader in maritime archaeology at St Andrews University's school of...
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Trying to box clever
Management jargon and red tape is invading learning. Pat Leon meets a professor fighting the paperwork and aiming to cut the cackle. Something is troubling the world of academic assessors, the people...
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UK lags in green research
The United Kingdom has the lowest expenditure per capita on environmental research and development of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries, MPs were told this week....
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Students learn a bit of 'can do'
Pipe dreams? Careers advisers have been struggling to make part-time work relevant to students' future vocations Tony Tysome What is the connection between stacking shelves in a supermarket and...
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Heavens saved from bad waves
The imminent destruction of the 66 Iridium satellites - possibly the most expensive firework display in history - will be watched with particular glee by radio astronomers. The global telephone...
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Database boob may delay loan payments
The Student Loans Company is set to repeat last year's fiasco in which a botched database threatened to delay loan cheques for thousands of students. Last week, the company was due to issue local...
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Troubleshooter heads for LJMU
Mike Brown already had a reputation as something of a troubleshooter before he agreed this week to step into the breach as the new vice-chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University. His 12-year...
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Gaelic gets a shot in the arm
There are hopes of a boost for Gaelic in Scottish colleges and universities following the United Kingdom's decision to back Council of Europe protection for minority languages. The Westminster...
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Basildon slated by FEFC
College funding chiefs have launched an investigation into Basildon College, after "an extremely poor" inspection report and a financial collapse, writes Phil Baty. The Further Education Funding...
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MPs investigate student finance
MPs could influence the government's inquiry into top-up fees and university funding with their own investigation of student finance. The education and employment sub-committee announced this week...
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Concerns over CMI initiative
Cambridge dons fear that their university's academic freedom could be stifled by state intervention and managerialism in the planned joint venture with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The...