Student parents get new online service
Students with young children can use the internet to find childcare close to campus. Launched this week to coincide with National Childcare Week, Daycare Trust's helpline and website aims to put an...
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UCL to study newly devolved countries
* Constitutional experts at University College London have welcomed the assemblies in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland as an opportunity to study the political dynamics of a devolved system....
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Salford bursaries to woo mature students
Salford University has launched a bursary scheme to encourage mature students to return to higher education. A response to the national decrease in applications from mature students, the five...
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Aberdeen helps forge Irish-Scottish links
Aberdeen University is set to play a leading role in strengthening Irish-Scottish relations by hosting the first of a series of top-level meetings between politicians, academics and civil servants....
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Man has harsher effect on climate than thought
Man's effect on the climate may be worse than feared, according to researchers at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory near Oxford. They calculated that the Sun has got brighter since observations started...
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Museums more hip than pop concerts
Museums and galleries, including those owned by universities, are more popular with the public than concerts, theatre, opera, stately homes and theme parks, according to a MORI survey carried out for...
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1m students in debt to SLC
Nearly one million British students owe the Student Loans Company money, new figures show. The deferred repayment option remains a popular safety net for graduates not earning above Pounds 1,482...
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Bett pay structure will be too 'inflexible'
Vice-chancellors fear that the Bett report may place them in a pay and conditions straitjacket if it recommends a national wages structure as expected. Leaks from the Bett report, due to be published...
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CVCP plans offshoots
Vice-chancellors have agreed a post-devolution structure to represent United Kingdom universities, writes Alan Thomson. The Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals will act as a supra-national...
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Study reveals N. Irish Catch 22
Many of Northern Ireland's brightest young people are forced to leave the province to study because of the government cap on the number of local student places. But researchers who flagged up the...
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Motion on ownership
Natfhe members have passed a motion aimed at ensuring lecturers and not employers "own" the new Institute for Learning and Teaching. The higher education sector conference called upon the...
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Lib Dem calls for 'backbone' in fees stand
A senior Liberal Democrat has told lecturers that Scottish party members could cause a rift unless they vote to abolish tuition fees north of the border. The party's further and higher education...
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Hardline resistance to stop bullying
The government has warned college managers to watch their step as lecturers take a stand on staff victimisation and bullying. Lifelong learning minister George Mudie told delegates at the national...
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Strike action threat over pay
Lecturers' union Natfhe is to consult members immediately on possible industrial action over pay later in the year. Delegates voted to conduct a consultative ballot in the event that the Universities...
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E-journal heralds publishing revolution
The world's largest scientific body, the American Chemical Society, has launched an on-line organic chemistry journal priced at a fraction of the cost of competing journals produced by commercial...