'Naughty' Esler knocks narrow focus on skills
The head of the Arts and Humanities Research Council has hit out at the skills agenda, warning that universities are being diverted into delivering "narrow competencies".Speaking at seminar last week...
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Welsh partners take global aim
Public-private collaboration to offer pre-university courses to overseas students. Olga Wojtas reports
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20 years ago
The ideas of Charles Darwin are slowly taking hold in America. Very slowly. A survey of 2,100 college students, taken at 40 campuses, shows that although the majority believe in the scientific theory...
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News in brief
Higher Education Founding CouncilReport flags fiscal challengesThe university sector is in for a rocky road because of the UK's faltering economy, the chief executive of the Higher Education Funding...
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Award Winners
BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCILDetails of the 12 projects to be funded under the Sustainable Agriculture Research for International Development (SARID) intitiative with the...
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University interventions aim to help heal a 'broken' NHS
Centres unite medical schools and hospitals to improve healthcare. Melanie Newman reports
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A late riser
Maureen Skinner started out making tea but now runs an 80-strong team and leads the professional body for HE managers
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Appointments
Lord Winston has been made a professor of science and society at Imperial College London. The new chair will enable him to focus on developing paths for better engagement between scientists and the...
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Hidden cost of open access
Disseminating research via the web is appealing, but it lacks journals' peer-review quality filter, says Philip Altbach
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The Nottingham Two and the War on Terror: which of us will be next?
Three academics at the University of Nottingham argue that the recent arrests of a postgraduate student and a staff member herald an erosion of civil liberties and a clear threat to legitimate...
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PR chief rounds on 'self-important' academics
Academics and university administrators may not traditionally enjoy the most cordial of relationships.But the emergence of an e-mail in which a director of communications describes his academic...
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The Week in Higher Education
Oxford's £1.25 billion fundraising campaign was widely reported in the papers on 29 May, with comments from the university's chancellor, Lord Patten, dominating coverage. He "attacked" the Government...
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Diplomas are a 'disaster waiting to happen', says research paper
The new 14-19 diplomas are a "disaster waiting to happen", a paper from the Centre for Education and Employment Research has argued.The paper, by Alan Smithers and Pamela Robinson of the centre,...
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Lecturers swap desks for 'flexible' future
Coventry trials virtual offices of webcams, laptops and shared filing cabinets, writes John Gill
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Historic win for fixed-term employee
'No objective reason' to deny permanent post to researcher, says tribunal. Melanie Newman reports