Unesco body puts words before weapons
An alternative to academic boycotts as a way of resolving conflicts comes a step closer this weekend when the UK's National Commission for Unesco is inaugurated at Nottingham University. The...
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Most staff would pursue pay at students' expense
A poll shows that about 66 per cent of academics are in principle prepared to take industrial action over wages even if it affects people's studies. David Jobbins reports Almost two thirds of...
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Rank and file accuse union negotiators of selling out
A 'vote no' campaign is growing, as is a call for resignations, says Phil Baty A campaign to persuade lecturers to reject the 13.1 per cent pay deal is gaining momentum amid claims that union leaders...
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Docking stand-off could stall ballot
Plans for a national ballot on last week's pay offer could be knocked off course by local disputes over the return of docked wages, write Tony Tysome and Phil Baty. Although it is official policy of...
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Metrics deliver a costly blow to the elite
The Times Higher provides an exclusive analysis of how the Government's proposed funding models would hit the sector Changes to the funding regime could deplete the coffers of some top universities....
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Research cash models are fair, Rammell insists as he dismisses pitfalls
Research selectivity has gone far enough, the Higher Education Minister said this week. In an exclusive interview with The Times Higher , Bill Rammell launched a firm defence of the Government's...
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Angry v-cs slam timing of exercise
The 2008 research assessment exercise will go ahead - but the Government aims to start introducing a new system only one year after it is completed, writes Anna Fazackerley. The fate of the 2008 RAE...
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Job cuts to fund growth
Wolverhampton wants redundancies so that it can expand in-demand courses, writes Chloe Stothart Wolverhampton University is planning to make up to 53 staff redundant in order to redirect money into...
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Critic of Oxford reforms gains seat on council
An outspoken critic of the reforms promoted by John Hood, Oxford University's vice-chancellor, has been overwhelmingly elected to Oxford's governing council, just days after the university published...
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Bard unbarred
A rare first folio of Shakespeare's plays is available to scholars for the first time for 40 years. It is one of two historical literary texts loaned anonymously to York University's library and...
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94 Group increases clout with new intake
The 1994 Group of universities fuelled its quest for more political influence this week by taking on four new members. A number of institutions had expressed interest in joining the lobby group,...
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Research councils not plugged into UK plc, say MPs
MPs attacked the research councils for failing to take a co-ordinated approach to knowledge transfer this week. In a critical report, the House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee said...
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A lifelong fling with Highlands and Islands
Olga Wojtas meets the man who fought two decades for a university in his region and now leads its history centre Jim Hunter, genial and soft-spoken, appears an unlikely 21st-century Highland...
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Japanese step up research cash fight
Academics across Japan are lobbying to block legislation that they believe threatens the autonomy of universities and gives the Education Ministry the authority to allocate government research funds...
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GI Bill spirit revived to woo Iraq vets
In this mid-term election year, politicians are currying favour by giving US soldiers from the Afghanistan and Iraq wars free tuition. Jon Marcus reports Sixty years after the GI Bill provided free...