Court passes buck on geology rift
Glasgow University's court has backed off deciding the future of a department accused of conflict, factionalism and lack of leadership. The court last week received a review committee report on the...
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Unions issue pay threat
UNIVERSITIES face renewed industrial action unless employers improve their pay offer for next year, higher education unions have warned. Further talks were under way this week after the unions...
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OU senate makes history
STAFF at the Open University could win a major victory in the battle to improve employment rights for thousands of academics working on fixed-term contracts, writes Alan Thomson. Members of senate...
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Physics at UEA in danger
Less than a year after axing its physics degree, the University of East Anglia is proposing to shut its physics department, while the University of Essex is to stop taking physics undergraduates. A...
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Nightmare future for copyrights
The official representative for European libraries in Brussels warned this week that a draft European Commission directive on copyright could lead to a "nightmare future in which nothing can be...
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Oxford slips in world league for a fee
Oxford University's colleges will soon be no more than "glorified dormitories", Robert Stevens, master of Pembroke College, Oxford, told the Association of University Administrators in America this...
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Tinseltown and gown: Jan Pinkava
(Photograph) - Tinseltown and gown: Jan Pinkava, a University of Wales, Aberystwyth, graduate won an Academy Award Oscar for his short computer-animated film, Geri's Game. Dr Pinkava, who has a first...
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'Racist' Brand loses dismissal appeal
Chris Brand, the self-styled "scientific racist" fired from Edinburgh University for gross misconduct last August, has lost an internal appeal against dismissal. Scottish QC Gordon Coutts has blamed...
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Specialist schools feel pinch
REDUNDANCIES and merger are on the cards for two of Britain's most prestigious specialist higher education institutions. London University's School of Slavonic and East European Studies is braced to...
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An email in time
NEW technology shook trade unionism to its foundations this week as employers unveiled next year's higher education pay offer by email. Details of the offer were sent to vice-chancellors by the...
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A Nobel business
Signs of acute publicity hunger at Warwick Business School. David Story, director of the school's centre for small and medium-sized enterprises, has won an award from the Swedish National Board for...
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Art of bodily defence
Brilliant but misunderstood body-part artist Anthony-Noel Kelly was in court this week charged with stealing bits of dead'uns in the name of art. Mr Kelly was joined at Southwark Crown Court by Neil...
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That sinking feeling
Roger Brown, the quality watchdog turned Southampton Institute principal, is unsurprisingly keen to steer clear of the murkier events in the institute's past. He was noticeably nervous posing for...
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Stress barrier
Strathclyde University is suffering from an outbreak of 1984-speak, in which the word "stress" has been replaced by "staff well-being". Staff committee minutes reveal growing concern about stress...
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Ahead of the game
Perhaps the members of the Oxford University branch of the United Nations Association should give up on crisis simulation games and get into predictions instead. The subject chosen some time ago for...