Students knock boring tutors
Tutors with poor command of English and lecturers who are boring came in for criticism from economics undergraduates, according to a survey. One student said: "Nothing against foreign lecturers, but...
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London six fight to tempt locals
Low aspirations of local people mean South London's six universities face a struggle to attract the 8,700 extra students a year needed to meet government targets, according to a report by consultants...
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Nathfhe strikes
* Strikes are likely to shut London's universities one day every month for at least four months of next year after lecturers' union Natfhe, the Association of University Teachers, Unison and Amicus...
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Modular degrees linked to suicides
Modularisation and bigger staff-to-student ratios in higher education could be contributing factors in student suicides, a guide has warned. Modular degree courses can exacerbate students' feelings...
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Sacked lecturer wins new tribunal
A lecturer sacked by Surrey University after complaining about management practices at the business school where he worked has been given a second chance to claim victimisation under the law to...
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'Teaching research in danger'
Teaching as a research-based profession is in grave danger, education secretary Charles Clarke has been warned this week. The British Educational Research Association has written to Mr Clarke to...
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'We're serving Jesus - without the labels'
Where once university chaplains dealt solely with issues of religion, today they offer more general support to those of any or no faith. Olga Wojtas reports Bath University's Christmas carol service...
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'Cool' TV celeb helps with campus depression
A drug company is paying the star of a reality television show to give talks at US universities in a bid to deal with the growing problem of depression among students. MTV series The Real World,...
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Council forces Wits v-c to resign
Before Norma Reid Birley resigned as vice-chancellor of the University of the Wi****ersrand, the university chair of council threatened her with dismissal and immediate ejection from the official...
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Task force to study sex-law teaching
The Association of Canadian Medical Colleges is to convene a task force to consider the impact of medical education on students' attitudes to sex with patients. A study in Ontario has suggested that...
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Fund will build Indian and UK scientific network
Collaboration in science and technology between India and Britain is to be enhanced by a joint fund that will enable scientists from the two countries to work in areas of common interest. Officials...
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Academe sizes up Spain's oil spill crisis
As oil from the tanker Prestige washes up on the coast of Galicia in Spain, universities are preparing to assess the damage to local ecosystems. Part of the palaeontology department of La Coruna...
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Christmas message
(Photograph) - In his traditional December address to Rome's students in St Peter's Square, the Pope spoke of the limits on temporal knowledge. 'Only God, with his omnipotence, controls the universe...
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French to set up tax breaks to boost R&
The French government is counting on the private sector to boost spending on research and development, and next year it will introduce tax breaks to innovatory companies and their investors. Industry...
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News in brief: Brussels
First calls for proposals under the European Union's Sixth Framework Programme were published this week. The European Commission has adopted detailed programmes for the research projects that it will...