Lords want weaker Offa
Conservative peers moved to "draw the teeth" of the planned university access regulator, Offa, ahead of the higher education bill's House of Lords committee stage next week. Tory frontbench peer Lord...
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English fee refugees pose threat to Scots
More English students will take places at Scottish universities this year, raising fears that top-up fees in England will restrict access for local students north of the border. The latest student...
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Scholars meet in Lancs room to ogle Venus
Astronomers and historians will open a window on a past triumph of science when they gather in a Lancashire manor house to witness the transit of Venus. People around the world will try to catch a...
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Union to ballot on staff cuts
Northumbria University this week announced plans to cut 58 teaching posts in a move that has left staff reeling, according to union officials. Lecturers' union Natfhe announced its intention to...
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Scots fearful of new divide
Scottish higher education principals have accused the Scottish Executive of reinstating the binary divide in its proposals to merge the further and higher education funding councils. And Universities...
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Robot team shifts into spider or snake on cue from 'hormone'
A swarm of autonomous robots that can link together to slither, crawl and even roll around obstacles has been created by scientists in a project part funded by the US Department of Defense. The...
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Cash crisis warning for Wales
Higher education in Wales is heading for a financial crisis unless it gets a significant cash injection, Welsh universities have warned. Figures from the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales...
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University of Arts has an instant imitator
The launch this week of Britain's first university of the arts was followed immediately by proposals for another, as Kent Institute of Art and Design and the Surrey Institute of Art and Design...
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College comes under QAA fire
Quality watchdogs have "limited confidence" in the control of degree standards and course quality at Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication. In an audit report published last week, the...
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Anger at campus closure
A political storm has erupted in Northern Ireland over plans by Queen's University Belfast to close a campus not far from the border with the Irish Republic. The "outreach" campus in the province's...
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Call to consult
Policy-makers and vice-chancellors must heed academics' concerns before a teaching qualification for lecturers is introduced, union leaders have warned. A consultation paper published last week by...
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Publishers resist revolution
Journal publishers are battling to discredit the idea of free research results for all on the web after new research commissioned by the Wellcome Trust suggested that it was an economically viable...
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It's all music to downloaders' ears
Edinburgh University's Playfair library may lack the hardcore cachet of the usual music venue, but this did not stop Alex Kapranos, front man of band-of-the-moment Franz Ferdinand, putting in an...
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Standards fears hinder disability law take-up
Universities are failing to comply with disability discrimination laws 18 months after they came into force, a leading law firm said this week after it found 23 problem areas during an audit at the...
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Rome
Leading Israeli universities have signed an agreement with three Palestinian universities for joint projects in the fields of the environment, regional social and economic development and education....