Make better use of dropout data, quality watchdog urges
QAA says few institutions employ statistics to help them improve support. Rebecca Attwood reports
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Lancaster guarantees students minimum weekly contact time with tutors
Undergraduates will be guaranteed a minimum of ten hours' contact time with tutors each week across all second and third-year courses at Lancaster University, after calls for more teaching time from...
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NUS ditches its call to scrap fees
'Pragmatic' focus will give union more influence in tuition debate, new president tells Rebecca Attwood
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Students elect Streeting as president
Students have chosen a new president to lead the National Union of Students in the run-up to next year's review of top-up fees.Wes Streeting, former president of the University of Cambridge student...
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UK stem-cell research needs £100m to retain world lead
Global competition is catching up, first annual meeting of researchers warns. Zoe Corbyn reports
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Scientist keen to dispel fears of hybrid embryos
Stephen Minger was in China on business when he heard the news last week that human-animal hybrid embryos had been created for the first time in the UK.The team that did the work, which is based at...
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Sheffield revamp prompts concern over sex equality
University fields an all-male line-up in an expanded senior team. Melanie Newman reports
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King's settles after seven-year redundancy row
A seven-year campaign to prevent the first compulsory redundancy at King's College London has come to an end with an out-of-court settlement.The case had become a cause celebre for the local branch...
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Wider access remit urged
Students from non-university families less likely to stay on after graduation. Rebecca Attwood reportsWidening participation should not stop once students enter higher education, according to new...
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Union backs call to pull Scotland out of RAE
The Scottish Government is being urged to withdraw universities from the "educationally damaging" research assessment exercise, which is accused of undermining Scotland's new models of co-operative...
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UCU Scotland Congress round-up
Delegates to the University and College Union Scotland congress passed an emergency motion condemning proposed job cuts at Keele University's School of Economic and Management Studies. Alastair...
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Researchers believe results culture puts quality at risk
Majority of academics fear funding pressures and targets will harm scholarly work. John Gill reports
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Innovation requires 'many free-thinking heads'
Innovation policy must focus less on edicts from central Government and more on enabling free thinkers to collaborate, David Cameron has said.The Conservative Party leader, speaking last week at an...
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Launch of REF to be delayed a year
Funding changes rescheduled to give more time to pilot new metrics-based system, writes Zoe Corbyn
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The Week in Higher Education
- As the London mayoral race warmed up with reports of Tory candidate and former Shadow Higher Education Minister Boris Johnson's encounters with drugs as a student at Oxford, and coverage of the...