Pay deals set to force sector £68m into red
Staffing costs and waning overseas interest contribute to gloomy forecast. Anthea Lipsett reports The university sector is set to plunge into a deficit of almost £70 million, according to analysis...
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Raise top-up cap, think-tank urges
The £3,000 cap on tuition fees should be raised, according to a think-tank, which this week reported that funding arrangements for English universities are "among the most progressive in the world",...
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All change in Yorkshire as three new heads prepare to take up the reins
Higher education in Yorkshire is set for a dynamic shift in leadership with the announcement this week of three new vice-chancellors at Bradford, Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam universities, writes...
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QAA queries leadership at York St John
Quality watchdogs have raised questions over the academic leadership and management of the UK's newest university. York St John University, which gained its new title in October this year, has been...
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East seeks expansion
The East of England is experiencing a "brain drain" with half its graduates leaving the area. The East of England Development Agency said many people left the region to go to university and those who...
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End users to judge work
Social policy researchers hope to enlist the people that their research affects most to judge its quality in the next research assessment exercise. Members of the RAE social policy sub-panel are...
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OU innovator moves
David Wield, professor of innovation and development at the Open University, will next autumn become director of the life sciences research group Innogen, which has secured its future with a five-...
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Aberdeen art deal
A series of sculptures marking the final major work of one of Scotland's greatest artists has been acquired by Aberdeen University. Column to Drum is the work of "poet, writer, artist, philosopher...
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Dearing: push foreign tastes
The Russell Group of elite universities was urged this week to consider adopting last week's decision by one of its members, University College London, to insist that all its undergraduates have a...
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A region built on TV spot
The North East of England has a strongly recognisable regional identity as one of the country's cradles of Christianity, an industrial heartland and the inspiration for gritty television dramas such...
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Trumpet blows blue notes out of business of lectures
Noel Dennis has a unique way of livening up his lectures on business theory. The 28-year-old principal lecturer in marketing at Teesside University thinks nothing of switching off the overhead...
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Staff report regular bullying
Leaked survey at Sheffield Hallam reveals 'disturbing' fears of victimisation, high stress and sub-par performance in many areas of work that require 'urgent action'. Phil Baty reports Almost 100...
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The battle, the fallout and a new reckoning
We look back at the fight over pay and the year's other key events and offer festive fun in a news quiz and personal reflections on the past 12 months It was billed as the first year of top-up fees,...
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The most memorable events of 2006: Academics list their personal top fives
Lisa Jardine Director, Centre for Editing Lives and Letters, Arts and Humanities Research Council, Queen Mary, University of London * The most memorable event in 2006 for me had to be the recovery of...
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Quiz of the year
QUOTES MATCH THE QUOTE TO THE PERSON a. "I always remember that no matter how bad it gets, it's never as bad as freezing your nuts off in the trenches" b. "If we are really going to do our dirty...