Swansea u-turn claim
Academic union leaders have accused Richard Davies, Swansea University's vice-chancellor, of breaking a promise to allow four departments threatened with closure to continue recruiting for another...
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Two-tier proposal
A consultation on whether the next research assessment exercise - due in 2008 - should be conducted by two tiers of panels has been launched by the funding councils. All four funding bodies are...
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Complacency warning
Scottish academics lack passion and aggression when it comes to the marketplace, says Ken Morse, managing director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Entrepreneurship Center. MIT is working...
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Whistleblowers: Ridiculed student seeks redress
A PhD candidate who was told that five years' work was "some of the dullest and [most] unimaginative" an examiner had seen is seeking almost £100,000 in compensation from Royal Holloway, University...
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Executives criticise Southampton for six-month MBA delay
A group of business executives who paid £8,500 for an MBA course are still awaiting exam results and certificates from Southampton University six months after handing in their final dissertations,...
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Cardiff faculty under review
Creative writing faces an uncertain future at Cardiff University after a series of personality clashes and complaints from students about poor PhD supervision, writes Phil Baty. In a letter obtained...
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Funding council putts golf course on the map
A course in golf studies, one of the most persistently derided of so-called Mickey Mouse degrees, has been given the seal of approval by funding chiefs, writes Alison Goddard. The Higher Education...
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Access degree missing target
The government's flagship foundation degree is making only limited progress towards ministers' main goals for higher education access and expansion, figures show. The two-year course is so far having...
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UK's defenceless battlefields overrun
Archaeologists are losing the fight to save Britain's battlefields from the mounting destruction wrought by armies of metal detectorists, farmers and developers. Experts have called on the government...
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Lords to focus on Offa issue
The monitoring of university efforts to recruit more working-class students by the government's proposed access regulator is set to be the key issue of debate as the higher education bill comes under...
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UK failing to prepare for tide of foreigners
The UK is poorly prepared to meet the needs of the more than 800,000 international students expected to flood into its universities and colleges by 2018, experts have warned. Academic institutions...
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Down under vs over here: What's on offer?
Down under vs over here: What's on offer? UK: Scholarships Chevening Scholarships: about 2,400 offered a year, most covering postgraduate fees plus maintenance but some fees only. Commonwealth...
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US urged to look across Atlantic for tips on how to cut dropout rates
British universities excel at managing the transition of students from school to degree courses, and US universities could learn from them in order to cut dropout rates, a conference heard last week...
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Tension over plan for Scots merger
Scotland's further and higher education organisations radically disagree over the powers of a planned merged funding council for the two sectors. And key tensions have emerged over the possible...
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Lay off, says Luton, as it plays to strengths
Charles Clarke described Luton University as 'bloody brilliant' yet it gets a bloody awful press. Alan Thomson finds that the much-maligned university is carving out a niche for itself Luton...