Application numbers up 8 per cent
Applications to university are up almost 8 per cent and more mature students are planning to study, according to data from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service.By 15 January, the number...
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Ulster's ring-fenced posts come under fire
A university's attempts to provide job security by ring-fencing permanent posts for those on temporary contracts have been criticised.Amid concerns about excessive casualisation in higher education,...
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Prison research project is throttled by red tape
Mental-health services study abandoned after a 14-month bureaucratic nightmare. John Gill reports
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Researchers' complaint over citation taken to ethics body
COPE tells scientists to go to 'higher authority' over lack of credit in journal paper. Zoë Corbyn reports
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Original features
In a £2 million initiative, Tyn Dwr Hall in Llangollen, North Wales, has been handsomely restored and re-equipped by the University of Central Lancashire in partnership with Proactive Adventure. It...
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News in brief
University financesNo bankruptcies ahead, says DIUSThe Government has issued reassurances that no university is at risk of going bankrupt, after off-the-cuff remarks by its chief science adviser were...
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20 years ago
A price war in the competition to recruit overseas students seems about to break out as universities start to set wildly different prices for the courses starting in the autumn. For the first time,...
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Particle physicists fear PhD funding 'disaster'
Field will suffer most from STFC's proposed changes to support for doctoral students, Zoë Corbyn hears
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Daytime TV: Older and wiser
Gary Day on the disadvantages of age, the healing properties of literature and chasing hurricanes
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Top countries in biology and biochemistry
Data provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators, 1 January 1998-31 October 2008
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No apples for teachers
An HEA survey shows that teaching is still valued less than research, not least because of a lack of accord on how to assess it, writes Rebecca Attwood
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The rites of spring
Inspired sects on the Cretan beach or dispiriting meat markets in Leeds: Simon Goldhill on the ups and downs of the academic conference seasonWhen April comes around, and students start to focus on...
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On the side of the angels
After a decade as professor of physics, John Polkinghorne retrained for the priesthood. He talks to Matthew Reisz about his faith and run-ins with atheism's champion, Richard Dawkins
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Burden of proof in discrimination cases
Education institutions, like any other large employers, are likely, at some stage, to face discrimination claims from employees or former employees, and managers may be called upon to attend...
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Chapter and verse
Tara Brabazon gives supervisors her top tips for guiding doctoral candidates successfully to completion