Cash that appears as if from nowhere
Research findings appear from thin air, a preliminary report of the fundamental review of research has found. More research is being conducted than funded in British universities, according to the...
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Dockland campus gets the go-ahead
Quay to the future: work on the University of Lincolnshire and Humberside's development will begin later this year The University of Lincolnshire and Humberside has won its bid to transform nine...
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Research 'time bomb' is a threat to teaching
Britain's universities need to examine the impact research has on teaching standards now that students have become consumers, a group of leading academics and policy-makers has urged. The issue was...
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Stark warning of staff crisis
Low pay, a large proportion of academics facing retirement, chairs lying vacant and recruitment and retention problems in many areas. Claire Sanders reports on a sector in trouble A staffing crisis...
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Club class
Rivalry between Scotland's two main cities has erupted over Prince William. Glasgow University students, aghast at rumours that Prince William is heading for Edinburgh, have sent him ten reasons why...
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Control freak chic
Control-freakery on a scale that would impress new Labour is in evidence on Nottingham University's new Jubilee campus. Staff have been issued with an ominous list of dos and don'ts to prevent design...
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Starr journalists
One hopes the news instincts of US journalism students are stronger than those of former independent counsel Kenneth Starr, who was put on the spot by hack hopefuls at Northwestern University....
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Your v-c is worth Pounds 100!
Will over-50s holiday and insurance company Saga drum up business by advertising in a student magazine? Apparently so. Saga is offering up to Pounds 100 for students who send them details of...
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In the news
Colin Campbell's outspokenness about top-up fees does not come out of the blue. Only six months ago he said it was time to privatise Britain's universities "to help them be globally competitive". In...
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Glittering prizes
Scottish comedian Rikki Fulton, is to recieve the honorary degree of doctor of letters from the University of St Andrews in June. Uta Frith, who pioneered the cognitive explanation of autism and...
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Eyewitness
Turkey has offered to support Greece in its efforts to recover the Elgin marbles from their 200-year sojourn in the British Museum. Ironically it was the Ottoman Empire - as the occupying power -...
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Academic protests against television satire
Angry academics from St Petersburg University have protested against Russia's most popular television political satire, the puppet show Kulky, which they claim exposed acting president Vladimir Putin...
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SA to close for-profit courses
South Africa has moved to close for-profit courses being offered by foreign universities, many of them British, through local institutions. Kader Asmal, the education minister, has asked the nation's...
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Bookish pursuits
Researchers at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen are investigating how the book industry's traditional communication is being transformed by the web. Jo Royle of RGU's school of information and...
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Antique youths
The University of Bologna will next autumn launch a three-year degree course in antique dealing. The project, which is being hailed as Europe's first, is part of a government drive to introduce the...