UCU to ballot on pay negotiation plans
Union members to vote on structural reforms and ban on industrial action during pay talks to preserve national bargaining. Melanie Newman reports. The future of national pay bargaining was cast under...
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Building on the past, looking to the future
Fiona Hyslop, Scottish Education Secretary, on long-term aims for a higher education task force. Our Scottish universities have a long and proud tradition, with four of Britain's oldest universities...
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Travel without a hidden agenda
The US wants more Americans to study abroad, but doing so for security reasons will only reinforce barriers, says Peter Brady. "To protect our borders and defend our interest abroad" would seem like...
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Olympian opportunities to be involved in the Games
From Bristol University's plans to host the Kenyan athletics team to institutions of England's north-east tackling social exclusion through sport, the whole UK higher education sector is on track to...
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Shortfall translates to reduced grants
The Science and Technology Facilities Council has confirmed that it is planning to cut grant funding available to university researchers by at least 25 per cent to balance its books after its budget...
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Young researchers favour work in UK
Winners of ERC grants choose British institutions to undertake blue- skies research. Zoe Corbyn reports. The UK is the prime location for the crème de la crème of Europe's early-career researchers to...
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Former higher education tsar takes over as new chairman of the Arts and Humanities Research Council
The Government's former director-general for higher education has been made chairman of the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Sir Alan Wilson, professor of urban and regional systems at...
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Theologians resist second degree cuts
It may be time for the Government to start praying for divine intervention. As opposition mounts to the decision to scrap state funding for students taking second degrees at an equivalent or lower...
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DIUS gears funding for knowledge transfer
A welcome redistribution of wealth from rich to poorer universities, or a hindrance to excellence - new funding arrangements for so-called third stream activities have split opinion. Bill Rammell,...
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Campuses suffer leadership and information deficits
The Society for Research into Higher Education conference looked at reluctance to lead and opaque aid schemes. John Gill reports. MANAGEMENT ROLES SHUNNED Academics are avoiding managerial positions...
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UCLan v-c aspires to be called president
Competing in a global market leaves no room for sentiment and little for tradition - and Malcolm McVicar believes that his title, vice- chancellor, is causing confusion. Although the title is common...
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Treasury commandeers MRC funds
How the Medical Research Council's will pay for its contribution to a new £500 million super-laboratory in central London was questioned this week when it was confirmed that the Treasury is to take £...
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The real world exists outside our metropoles
Social science theories are rooted in Europe and the US, ignoring other cultures' social thought, says Raewyn Connell. What do Milton Friedman, Talcott Parsons, Michel Foucault, Jurgen Habermas,...
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Undervalued, not overqualified
I was disappointed to see my union buying into the idea that academic work is all about research and that teaching is a second-order activity that requires no expert knowledge in one's subject area...
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Race for reason
Greg Garrard (Letters, December 7) accuses us of being passe in terms of our use of "topsy-turvy" Marxist social and educational theory. Although we differ on a number of substantive points connected...