Scientists say hands are tied
Commercial and government pressure are harming academic science and eroding democracy, the organiser of a conference on academic freedom held at the British Academy London warned this week. David...
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Student growth targets in doubt
The number of first-year undergraduates fell this year and overall first-degree numbers are static, according to official figures. This is in spite of a 3 per cent rise in total enrolments, including...
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King's College wields anti-deficit axe on 250 staff
King's College London is planning to cut nearly 250 staff posts over the next three years. The cuts will come mainly from the schools of physical sciences and engineering, biomedical sciences and...
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News in brief
Leaders chosen for two new health councils Norma Brook has been appointed president of the shadow Health Professions Council, which will pave the way for the replacement of the Council for...
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Rich should get less funding, says union
Rich universities' assets and private incomes should be taken into account when handing out public money, lecturers' union Natfhe said this week. The move would help close a funding gap in which the...
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Students told pay up or get out
Thousands of students at the University of the West of England are being threatened with exclusion over non-payment of tuition fees. The university has sent letters to 2,400 students saying that if...
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Call for free e-research
More than 20,000 scientists have have signed a demand that journal publishers grant them free online access to research papers. Nearly 800 United Kingdom scientists have signed up to the Public...
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Directors draw up funding guides
Development directors from a number of Russell Group universities are drawing up guidelines on how to present fundraising figures. Mike Smithson, director of the development office at Oxford...
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NI equality law prevents abolition of tuition fees
Axeing tuition fees would be "politically unacceptable" in Northern Ireland because of equality legislation, according to Sean Farren, the province's minister for higher and further education. Dr...
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Bid to transfer two schools
About 300 staff and 1,700 students at De Montfort University could transfer to the University of Lincolnshire and Humberside next year as De Montfort steps up its repositioning strategy. Negotiations...
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Whistleblowers: Early exit and no appeal
Lecturers are campaigning to save the career of a Nottingham Trent University lecturer who was disciplined despite concerns raised by the university's equal opportunities chief. After several...
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UK recruiters work rich seam in Mexico
Mexico has emerged as the most promising Latin American student recruitment market for UK universities. UK institutions are running almost neck-and-neck with rivals from the United States by...
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BMA tells doctors to do more to halt abuse
The British Medical Association has launched a handbook on human rights that says doctors cannot merely document abuse but must challenge it. It says medical education must change in response to...
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Fund for poor children 'better spent on grants'
The government's proposal for a £500 Child Trust Fund to help children from poor families get a better start in life has been condemned by a Warwick University economist as "a waste of money". The...
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Milk buying tops student rows
Students argue most about who used the milk and did not buy any more, according to a University of Abertay Dundee survey marking the launch of its hospitality management suite. The survey, to explore...