Exeter to unveil big jobs push
Exeter University is poised to begin a major recruitment drive to help reposition itself in the higher education market. It is creating 52 posts, 44 of which are academic, after restructuring. Exeter...
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London Met strike planned for QAA visit
London Metropolitan University could be brought to a standstill during its first audit by the quality watchdog as a result of staff strikes and a continuing academic boycott. As the row over the...
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Who got that cash?
King's College London is celebrating a £1 million windfall after floating a spin-off company for the first time. Proximagen, which was set up in 2003, is the brainchild of Peter Jenner , professor of...
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Helping hand if you need it, not a stranglehold
Giving every institution a 'risk profile' enables Hefce to lighten the bureaucratic burden, says David Young. The board of the Higher Education Funding Council for England is committed to reducing...
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Nancy Rothwell
We must stop dwelling on the difficulties and look at the advantages of the X chromosome in academic success Larry Summers has caused quite a stir. The president of Harvard University suggested that...
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Lewis Wolpert welcomes a new brain game
How to get the public involved in thinking carefully about scientific issues is a major unsolved problem. So I was intrigued to have the opportunity to play the New Economics Foundation's Democs ( De...
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Bird-brained response
The cat was put among the pigeons last week when The Times Higher made a request under the Freedom of Information Act to the entire higher education sector. Within minutes of the round robin email,...
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A case of sexing up
Research presented at the British Psychological Society conference last week showed that MPs feel stressed and out of control. Ashley Weinberg also claimed that MPs experience a noticeable decline in...
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Gamekeeper turned poacher
Labour MP Ian Gibson is famous for his talent for attracting media attention. But he is now having a go at journalism himself. He is interviewing Colin Blakemore, chief executive of the Medical...
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Glass ceilings - and walls
Manchester University may score points from the feminist lobby by naming a medical building after its first female medical student, Catherine Chisholm. But visitors will soon realise something is...
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Judged unworthy?
A meeting described as "the Pop Idol of business schools" took place in Oxford last weekend, with 16 teams from across Europe. Cranfield University organised the event and chose the competitors....
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Missing the Med
If the Bologna Process is so important, why did so many UK vice-chancellors fail to show up for the European University Association convention in Glasgow last week? Of the 40 universities there, only...
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Why I.. believe students who buy essays via the web get poor value for money
There has been a proliferation of internet-advertised services that offer to write assignments for students for a fee. Some of these adverts modestly claim to offer model answers and do not pretend...
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Wake up to the future
Only by training creative engineers will the UK rejoin the global race for innovation, says Alec Broers. Growing frustration with the way technology is misunderstood and often undervalued meant it...
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Don't tarnish gold standard
Erratic postgrad funding is weakening our research base, say Howard Green and Stuart Powell. Doctoral students in the UK can be increasingly divided into two groups: those with well-funded...