Universities face a "knowledge crisis" and no longer know "what they are for", a study published this week will argue. Ron Barnett, professor of higher education at the Institute of Education and one...
Two students are set to challenge job losses and restructuring at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, in the high court. Helen Vincent and Heather Mitchell, second-year students at the Institute of...
The University of Luton is investigating the actions of its former auditors, Ernst & Young, after discovering a hole in its finances of more than Pounds 1 million. Vice chancellor Tony Wood...
A funding council "anomaly" has forced an across-the-board early retirement programme at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, its director said this week. SSEES lost Pounds 250,000 in...
The University of Nottingham and the AUT have taken the unusual step of issuing a joint statement over job losses. They have reassured staff that none will face compulsory redundancy over research...
Natfhe's 1997 conference must go down as one of the oddest in living memory - which, given the wealth of collective experience, is a very long time. In what were almost surreal circumstances, the...
Just as Dundee University's two student newspapers are considering a merger, archives assistant Michael Bolik has unearthed a student magazine from 1922 which reveals one contributor violently...
Like Madam Speaker and the staff of Hansard, we are having trouble working out who the new MPs are. A missive from the University of Warwick chides us for omitting it from our list of universities...
In the interests of political and gender balance, the alumnus to be proud of No. 108 is a Tory alumna, best known for her role in the far-from-accidental demise of a would-be prime minister. Michael...
A Professor of comparative literature at Duke University in the United States is the winner of the third Bad Writing Contest, sponsored by the journal Philosophy and Literature and its Internet...
It was a mild spring night and Karen Pelley, Chantal Maynard and I were wearing bright red Walksafe jackets as we patrolled through a square-mile zone on a four-hour Friday shift. One of the two...
Despite the fact that novelist Sue Thomas reads books on her pocket organiser and publishes her work on the Internet she takes issue with colleagues who fear the death of the book. Ms Thomas,...
Canadian's idea leads Newcastle women to take back the night .. with an escort When Sandra Dunkin heard there had been a rape on campus at Newcastle University her thoughts flashed back to her own...
Universities have been invited to apply for awarding-body status for National Vocational Qualifications by Nick Tate, chief executive of the new Qualifications and Curriculum Authority. Higher...
ATHLETES should pay more attention to eating a balanced diet rather than seeking quick-fix performance enhancing solutions, according to the latest nutritional research. Nutritionalists say sports...