Autism experts offer to help in Piano Man case
Academic experts in autism believe the "Piano Man" - the unidentified man found wandering on the Isle of Sheppey in April - may be an autistic savant. The mystery man - named Piano Man after he drew...
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Shortage of medical academics
Key medical disciplines including pathology and psychiatry are under threat as academic staff numbers continue to drop, figures released this week reveal. A survey of academic staff levels in medical...
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Law test gains support
King's College London, Glasgow and Manchester Metropolitan universities are to join the list of institutions that set an admissions test for those hoping to study law, writes Olga Wojtas. From this...
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Walkout threatened over pay
Staff at Bournemouth University are preparing to strike if the management does not improve its proposals on pay and conditions. A motion threatening strike action if the negotiating stalemate was not...
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Disabled worker was 'victimised'
A disabled website consultant has won a six-year sex and disability discrimination battle against Warwick University despite having her "credibility" criticised by the employment tribunal. After a...
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'I'm living on a knife edge, it's horrible'
Violence against staff is on the rise. Phil Baty looks at the fear behind the figures Abigail Smith lives in constant fear. She is a senior lecturer at a Midlands redbrick university who has been...
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'Battle' for cash goes on, says No 10 aide
The future funding of higher education is insecure despite the introduction of top-up fees next year. Vice-chancellors may face "another battle" to win extra cash, according to a new Downing Street...
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OU joy tinged with sadness
The daughter of one of the Open University's first students collected a posthumously awarded degree on behalf of her father last week after a retrospective rule change entitled him to an ordinary...
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Wales could see return of grant
Students from Wales could become the most generously supported in the UK under new proposals being considered by the Welsh Assembly this week. If adopted, students would be entitled to a non-means-...
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V-cs urge cash fillip
Welsh vice-chancellors renewed pleas for a major cash injection from the Assembly this week as a new funding council report revealed the declining financial state of higher education in the country,...
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Draw the line at copying? Not him
Stephen Farthing is on a mission to help teach British students how to draw. But what may seem an obvious pursuit for the first Rootstein Hopkins professor of drawing at Chelsea College of Art and...
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Reforms cause conflict
A year after Japan's 89 national universities became independent, friction between faculties and the new executive bodies that have taken over the running of institutions is evident. In one case,...
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Reality TV offers tests and teasers for college fees
Reality TV has come to campus with a US series that pits students against each other for the prize of full university tuition fees in what is being called "the first show ever to celebrate higher...
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Learning grinds to halt in row over quality regime
Greek academics and students brought universities to a standstill for three days in protest against the Government's commitment to a Bologna-style quality assessment system and other elements adopted...
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A$1.5bn with strings brings Australians out on streets
Thousands of Australian academic staff stopped work and held rallies last week in protest against federal Government plans to impose industrial relations changes on their sector. Eight unions with...