Angry v-cs slam timing of exercise
The 2008 research assessment exercise will go ahead - but the Government aims to start introducing a new system only one year after it is completed, writes Anna Fazackerley. The fate of the 2008 RAE...
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Job cuts to fund growth
Wolverhampton wants redundancies so that it can expand in-demand courses, writes Chloe Stothart Wolverhampton University is planning to make up to 53 staff redundant in order to redirect money into...
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Critic of Oxford reforms gains seat on council
An outspoken critic of the reforms promoted by John Hood, Oxford University's vice-chancellor, has been overwhelmingly elected to Oxford's governing council, just days after the university published...
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Bard unbarred
A rare first folio of Shakespeare's plays is available to scholars for the first time for 40 years. It is one of two historical literary texts loaned anonymously to York University's library and...
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94 Group increases clout with new intake
The 1994 Group of universities fuelled its quest for more political influence this week by taking on four new members. A number of institutions had expressed interest in joining the lobby group,...
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Research councils not plugged into UK plc, say MPs
MPs attacked the research councils for failing to take a co-ordinated approach to knowledge transfer this week. In a critical report, the House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee said...
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A lifelong fling with Highlands and Islands
Olga Wojtas meets the man who fought two decades for a university in his region and now leads its history centre Jim Hunter, genial and soft-spoken, appears an unlikely 21st-century Highland...
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Japanese step up research cash fight
Academics across Japan are lobbying to block legislation that they believe threatens the autonomy of universities and gives the Education Ministry the authority to allocate government research funds...
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GI Bill spirit revived to woo Iraq vets
In this mid-term election year, politicians are currying favour by giving US soldiers from the Afghanistan and Iraq wars free tuition. Jon Marcus reports Sixty years after the GI Bill provided free...
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Big debt fears deter Aussies
Higher tuition fees and fears of incurring large debts could be deterring Australians from going to university. Figures from the Australian Vice-chancellors Committee last week show that the number...
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Proposal reignites the war of words
Debate over using Afrikaans, the 'language of the oppressor', on campus is raging, writes Karen MacGregor Thirty years after the student uprising in Soweto, South Africa's academics are hotly...
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Private sector responds to taste for Russian
There is still demand for university courses taught in Russian in Estonia, and a new private sector is developing despite efforts to marginalise the language at school level. Proposals to reform...
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Washington DC
Most Americans, 62 per cent, support the right of lecturers to express antiwar sentiments in classrooms, specifically on the Iraq War, according to a phone poll conducted for the American Association...
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Santiago
The University of Chile and the Catholic University of Chile are among 11 universities paralysed by student action in support of school students' demands for educational reform, including making...
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Athens
Greek universities are at a standstill as lecturers and students protest against a government plan to revise the constitution and end the state monopoly in university education. They also oppose...