Anger at Greek plan to back only top-rated
Greek students would be prevented from attending UK engineering departments that failed to secure high marks in the last research assessment exercise under plans drawn up in Athens that have...
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Brits popular but posh
International students consider the UK a close rival to the US as the best study destination in the world, the findings of a major new survey have revealed. The UK emerged top as the country of...
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Next week
Goodbye kipper ties As the University of the Air quits the small screen after three decades, OU academics recall big beards, inspired improvisation and a new era in learning PLUS Boom time for maths
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Terror law warning
A group of UK scholars in Islamic studies has warned that the Government's terrorism legislation risks fostering extremism by driving debate underground. Yasir Suleiman, professor of Arabic and...
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Private success
Private schools are still remarkably successful at getting their students into universities, according to a survey by the Independent Schools Council. The survey, the largest of its kind, found that...
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Business of creativity
The University of East Anglia has launched an MA course to help artists, writers and musicians turn their creativity into entrepreneurship. The one-year MA in creative entrepreneurship aims to give...
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£1 million labs open
Kent University opened £1 million teaching laboratories in its department of biosciences this week.
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Call for FP7 projects
The next European research funding programme, Framework 7, will start on time - on January 1 - after the European Parliament voted it through last week. The first calls for proposals for research...
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Peers to oversee new RAE system
Government abandons 'crude mono-metrics' in its proposed research quality system, Anthea Lipsett reports Academics' research quality will continue to be judged in part by their peers, it emerged this...
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Archbishop hits back
Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, has hit out at the "suppression" of Christian unions on university campuses with an impassioned defence of free speech, writes Anthea Lipsett. Writing...
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Tory plan for ideas agency
A future Conservative government should set up a £1 billion agency to turn research ideas into products and services, a task force has recommended. An Innovative Projects Agency would correct "the UK...
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Leitch: tie learning to work
Skills review calls for more adults with degrees tailored to employment, write Claire Sanders and Chloe Stothart More than four out of ten adults should have a degree-level qualification by 2020, the...
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UCU top-job candidates set out stall
Three hopefuls are on their marks as the race to become general secretary begins, writes Tony Tysome The race is on to determine who will become the first sole general secretary of the world's...
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Tutor's pen is all-mighty
Lecturers struggling to stay awake after marking their 100th exam paper of the evening might be forgiven for feeling despondent. But have they considered the feelings of the students whose morale can...
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£8m pot to coax wary publicists
RCUK supports researchers fearful of disapproving peers, writes Anthea Lipsett Academics keen to boost their public profiles and publicise their work will benefit from an £8 million initiative to...