Minority students' data tracked
Asian and black students on full-time PhD programmes are 10 per cent less likely to complete their doctorates in ten years than white students, according to a separate report on overall entry and...
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Cumbria adds campus
Cumbria University is to set up a campus in Workington, West Cumbria, thanks to a £10 million donation from the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority. The authority has agreed to support the development...
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Bid for Bliss
A consortium of the Medical Research Council, the Wellcome Trust, Cancer Research UK and University College London has made it to the final round of bidding to secure a site behind the British...
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Bodleian expands
Work on a new book depository for Oxford University's main research library, the Bodleian, is due to start imminently after the project was approved last week. The depository, at Osney Mead near the...
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New Essex chief
Colin Riordan took over as the vice-chancellor of Essex University on October 1. He replaced Sir Ivor Crewe, who has retired after 12 years. Professor Riordan was formerly pro vice-chancellor at...
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Correction
In a news item last week ("Protests hamper animal test cuts"), we referred to the science minister as Malcolm Wicks. Mr Wicks was science minister from November 2006 to June 2007, when he was...
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'Like all art, pop music deserves discussion'
PROFILE : JOE WILSON COURSE LEADER, POPULAR MUSIC, GLOUCESTERSHIRE UNIVERSITY Leaving a party for pop star Janet Jackson in the US, Joe Wilson recalls sharing a lift with members of the hip-hop act...
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'Cool Japan' suffers from cruel cuts
Nicola Liscutin, a lecturer in Japanese studies, is in no doubt as to why the subject is one of the fastest growing in the UK: it is the lure of "cool Japan". Today's students have grown up on...
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Katrina-hit campuses try to return to normal
Two years on from the New Orleans hurricane, Jon Marcus reports on a higher education sector still in turmoil The biggest drama at Tulane University in New Orleans during its first few weeks of term...
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Laurie Taylor column
"Universities are requiring academics to abandon their own offices for seats in new open-plan spaces" - The Times Higher , September 28 From: The Large Well-Appointed Office of the Head of Corporate...
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'In the US, invoking offended feelings is morally equivalent to saying you feel raped, starved or strangled'
Disagreement is one the greatest sources of pleasure available to intellectuals. If I find someone agrees with me, I think it's time to change my mind. Academics' lust to ban speakers because they...
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Leader: 'One-size-fits-all' degrees are a public disservice
Do universities provide a public service? The answer is unquestionably "yes". An advanced society needs trained people in increasing numbers, and only a university can produce them. It needs the kind...
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Open plan needs good planning
Having been both an open-plan office inhabitant and a location-independent, flexibly working "road warrior", I can report that in the corporate world both types of environment can and do work - for...
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The real pay figures
Your analysis in the article "Pay spending lags behind" (September 21) does not do justice to the intellectual sophistication of your readership. The oversimplification of Organisation for Economic...
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Elusive evidence 1
Graham Gibbs describes support in a student survey for more teacher training as "striking" ("Part-time effort for full-time degrees", September 28). What is really striking is the very thin basis for...