We'll halt expansion if we win, say Tories
The Conservative Party will abolish all university tuition fees and abandon the government's 50 per cent participation target if it wins the next general election, it was confirmed this week. In an...
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Men leave low-status academy to women
The declining social and economic status of academics, combined with increasing regulation, may be to blame for falling numbers of male lecturers, although this could be opening opportunities for...
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'Research funding fast-tracks men into top jobs'
The closing of the gender gap is "barely visible" at a management level and men in their mid-30s are still more likely to be fast-tracked through the ranks, says Hilary Pilkington. Professor...
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Female majority in medic studies
Women are outnumbering men in medical schools across the UK as male students continue to turn away from a career in medicine, a British Medical Association study has found. A report on the demography...
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'Fat-cat' post angers union
One of higher education's top ambassadors, Roderick Floud, has been branded a "fat cat" over his appointment as president of London Metropolitan University immediately after his retirement as its...
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Extinct birds to return to Britain
Ghost suits and puppetry skills are helping Stirling University researchers reintroduce the Great Bustard to Britain 175 years after it died out here. Patrick Osborne, senior lecturer in...
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'Soft' courses attacked
Runaway growth in community education is evidence that tertiary education reform in New Zealand is not working, universities say. Spending on the low-level courses doubled last year and has increased...
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Medici tomb is opened
Researchers from the universities of Florence, Pisa, Long Island and Minnesota have finally opened the first three of 49 tombs of members of the Medici dynasty, who ruled Florence and much of Tuscany...
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V-c snubbed by council
The University of New South Wales council has questioned its departing vice-chancellor's decision to clear a renowned transplant immunologist of charges of scientific misconduct. In April, vice-...
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French research funds win tax breaks
France has launched its first public utility research foundations, which are aimed at encouraging private industry and individuals to invest in public research through tax breaks. Research minister...
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New head will extend learning body's reach
One of Sir John Daniel's first acts when he took over the presidency of the Vancouver-based Commonwealth of Learning this month was to ditch the reference on his business cards to the open and...
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Arab outpost in Israel will be a move to peace
A planned outpost of a Jordanian university in Israel will be the first Arab institution to be opened in the country, other than the Jordanian and Egyptian embassies and airline offices. The chosen...
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Whites-only grant challenged
The South African government has launched a legal challenge against a 1920 trust that grants scholarships only to white male Christian students of the University of Cape Town. It will argue that the...
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Peer review key to trust in science
Scientific knowledge is special for two reasons. It has been arrived at by an experimental method that means that there are solid reasons for believing it. And it is published only when the...
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The future's female
Sooner or later, the female majority on UK undergraduate courses was bound to have an impact on the recruitment of academics, but today's figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency suggest...