Right to speak is threatened
Melanie Newman reports from the Battle of Ideas on the alleged 'castration' of academic freedom. Academics came under attack for failing to defend their right to freedom of speech and academic...
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Tories: students need greater transparency
A Conservative government would hold universities to account by publishing student dropout rates, staff contact hours and class sizes instead of relying on "clumsy monitoring institutions" such as...
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Diplomas finally get a thumbs up
Universities lay down provisos for approval of potential A-level replacement. Rebecca Attwood reports. Universities across the sector this week began to signal their intention to accept the...
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Call to collaborate with Africa
Urgent work is needed to improve collaboration between UK and African academics, the British Academy has warned. A study by the Association of Commonwealth Universities for the British Academy said...
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Too clever by half
A third of graduates believe they are overqualified for the job they are in, according to research from Kent University. The report is based on interviews with 7,800 workers, including graduates who...
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IPODs pay for the old
Graduates will be paying about half their salaries to the Government within five years of their leaving university, according to a report by the free-market think-tank Reform on the financial burden...
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Scots in the money
Paisley University's Ayr campus and Glasgow School of Art are to receive extra funding for building projects as part of a £100 million capital spending package for universities and colleges announced...
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Action on redundancy
Unison members at Nottingham Trent University are being balloted on industrial action over a new redundancy policy. The public service union claims the new policy will have a detrimental effect on a...
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Durham don sent on leave
A senior professor at Durham University has been suspended and will now face disciplinary action after an investigation into allegations of plagiarism, writes Tariq Tahir. As The Times Higher...
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UK opens research bureau in Beijing
The UK's seven research councils this week opened a bureau in China, signalling a growing desire to collaborate with the emerging economy, writes Zoë Corbyn. The Beijing office, the councils' first...
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'What a waste': 2008's rejects vent dismay
Online, those academics left out of the research assessment tell of pain, politics and bias, writes Zoë Corbyn. Ben Anderson was excluded from the research assessment exercise because neither his...
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Axe hangs over 5-rated team
Researchers at Bournemouth University's prestigious National Centre for Computer Animation (NCCA) are angry at plans by the university to enter them into the research assessment exercise and then axe...
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Paid to be on RAE stand-by
An American professor has revealed that a UK university has been paying him around £900 a month for the past six months simply so it could have the option of including his research in the 2008...
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Blue-sky thinking that led to an astronomical ambition
Profile: Lisa Jardine-Wright astrophysicist, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge. Lisa Jardine-Wright is on a mission: to change the image of physics, writes Rebecca Attwood. With the number of...
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Gates cash for Durham
Three Durham University researchers will share in a grant of almost £10 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to study malaria. Gerry Killeen, Ulrike Fillinger and Steve Lindsay from the...