Spin-off deal for Bath
Bath University has signed a 25-year deal with the IP Group, a company that aims to commercialise university technology. Under the agreement, the IP Group will provide funds to launch spin-off...
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Mental health crisis on campus
Support services are being stretched as more students seek counselling, reports Jessica Shepherd The number of university students with severe mental health problems has soared in recent years, a...
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Art book put on hold after row over ideas
Publication of a new book in a popular series on Irish studies has been put on hold amid allegations that the author based the work on the ideas of a former PhD student in his department. Michael...
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Skills profile aims to help employers gauge graduates' abilities
The Higher Education Academy has listed the skills graduates are expected to have acquired on each of 52 university courses, writes Jessica Shepherd. The profiles are designed to give employers a...
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Ambiguous copyright law catches out scholars
Publishers and galleries are charging unnecessarily. Jessica Shepherd reports Academics are being incorrectly told to hand over thousands of pounds to use works of art, literature and music in their...
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Doctorate and book offers at a youthful 85
An octogenarian awarded a PhD by Manchester University has been inundated with offers to write journal articles and give lectures. Ronald Lipman, 85, says his thesis on the transportation of the...
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Protests force Imperial to ditch Kent expansion
Imperial College London has abandoned plans for a £1 billion expansion of its Wye campus in Kent after sustained local protests. It had planned a massive development, including a science park...
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Scop revamp sharpens focus
Group representing higher education colleges relaunches with a focus on specialist institutions, writes Tony Tysome The Standing Conference of Principals relaunched itself this week in a bid to show...
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Follicle challenge
To confront Kurdish and Islamic views of female and male forms, an MA sculpture graduate from Winchester School of Art created a work featuring garments made of human hair. Rosa Ilgen, a refugee from...
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Personnel touch
Derby University won one category and was runner-up in two categories at last week's Universities Personnel Association awards. It scooped the prize for improving working lives; and it was runner-up...
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Leeds housing win prompts call for fight against 'unfair' contracts
Students were urged this week to fight back against one-sided contracts that limit their consumer rights after it emerged that Leeds University's student union managed to rewrite an "unfair"...
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Profile: Fay Weldon
It is not often that a world-famous author submits her work for "marking" by a panel of academics. But this is exactly what Fay Weldon, professor of creative writing at Brunel University, faces now...
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Industrial-strength success
Knowledge Transfer Partnerships are one of higher education's best-kept secrets. Olga Wojtas looks at what their future may hold Physicist Sir Sam Edwards founded the Teaching Companies Scheme, now...
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Party still anti-fees despite tax shift
Top-up fees stalked the fringes at the Lib Dems' conference, says Claire Sanders Liberal Democrats were quick to claim this week that their new tax policies would not jeopardise their opposition to...
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A voucher for more freedom
We need a system more responsive to student demand, says Tim Leunig in the first of our profiles of academics who belong to each major political party Tim Leunig is a member of an increasingly...