UCU uses law to demand RAE records
Union plans to make regular requests for records to prevent their being shredded, writes Zoe Corbyn
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REF citations database to cover conference data
The database that will be used to help assess the quality of academics' work under the system being set up to replace the research assessment exercise is to be expanded to improve the information it...
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Leeds rewards publication in top journals with bonus research time
UCU attacks plan to allow some academics to pass on teaching duties. Melanie Newman reports
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Part-timers deserve loans and grants, says v-c
The Government must start taking part-time students seriously and offer them the same support as full-timers, the vice-chancellor of Oxford Brookes University has said."There is an idea in central...
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Journals test software to catch cheats
Academic articles will, like student essays, be checked for plagiarism. John Gill reports
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Website closes after Hesa withholds data
A website that branded named universities "rubbish" and "shocking" on the basis of data on staff-to-student ratios has been shut after its owners were refused access to official statistics....
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Loose lips sink staff relationships
Academic under threat of redundancy records manager laughing while discussing dispute, writes John Gill
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The Week in Higher Education
The fall-out over academics' complaints that their research at the British Library is being hampered by the decision to admit undergraduate students continued in the pages of the Evening Standard on...
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Labs face the threat of infiltration by extremists
Universities warned that anti-research campaigners could attack from within. Chloe Stothart reports
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Rejected mature student could bring bias case
The University of East Anglia is facing legal action for alleged indirect sex and age discrimination over an entry requirement for academic study within the past three years.Arabella Beckett, a 31-...
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MPs decry government influence on budgets
An influential committee of backbench MPs has criticised the Government for "interfering" unduly in how the seven UK research councils spend their money.In a wide-ranging report on the research...
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AHRC to rethink project funding
Chief executive Philip Esler to advise a refocusing on collaborative research. Zoe Corbyn reports
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Leitch: skills agenda is not 'utilitarian'
Demand-led provision is flexible, not 'Benthamite', review leader tells MPs. Rebecca Attwood reports
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Shadow minister accuses Government of myopia
The Government's "short-sighted and blinkered" approach to widening access explains its failure to improve university participation among the working classes, the Conservative Shadow Minister for...
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Into founder says his private capital supports public work
'Old-school Blairite' defends company's English-language courses. Melanie Newman reports