Docking bungle stings workers not strikers
Union leaders hope that the complexities of calculating how much pay to dock from boycotting academics may prove too much for managers after an administrative bungle by Bradford University meant that...
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He's Notre Dame clever, not in Seine
In a scenario that would not look out of place in The Da Vinci Code , a French professor has used secret codes to arrange meetings with students amid the protests in Paris, making him a potential...
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Red faces at Cambridge gala
V-c sits through attack by Singapore's ex-PM over treatment of foreign alumni Cambridge University has suffered an embarrassing attack its treatment of overseas students from Singapore's founding...
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Rank-and-file challenger to join race for new top job
The race to lead the forthcoming merged lecturers' super-union was thrown open this week as the first grassroots union member declared his intention to stand in the election for general secretary....
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Ministers concur on EU research budget
A political deal in Strasbourg has at last revealed the likely budget of the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme. The European Parliament, the EU Council of Ministers and European Commission...
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Wildfowl threat on campus
Universities with lakes and waterways populated with ducks and wildfowl and institutions with farms that keep poultry are on high alert after the arrival of bird flu in the UK. Estates and grounds...
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Universities stall takeoff of spin-offs
Spin-off companies are not as successful as they could be because universities take too large a proportion of shares for themselves, a conference heard last week. Researchers are given shareholdings...
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Lax control still dogs partner schemes, QAA says
Some UK universities are still failing to control what is being done in their name when they offer their degree courses in collaboration with outside partners, quality watchdogs have said. In an...
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Leicester butts in with a linguistic claim to fame
The Oxford English Dictionary describes it as "an act of exposing one's buttocks" and cites its earliest published use as 1990, writes Tony Tysome. But researchers for the BBC television programme...
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Remedial study no help to students
Harriet Swain surveys the upcoming meeting of the Royal Economic Society Remedial maths help for university economics students does nothing to boost their academic performance, research has suggested...
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Lesser lights and stars both draw in cash
Areas near universities with high-rated departments attract substantial private-sector research and development investment, researchers have confirmed. But they also discovered the surprising fact...
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Number crunching
Subjects covered at the Royal Economic Society's annual conference will include the effectiveness of remedial maths tuition and the private pulling power of university research departments. The RES...
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Funding shake-up makes plans for central research body inevitable
Proposals to create a national Large Facilities Council for researchers announced in the Budget will go ahead, according to the chief executive of the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council...
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V-cs want RAE 2008
Three quarters of vice-chancellors are in favour of retaining the 2008 research assessment exercise, a survey by Universities UK has found. Last week, a survey by The Times Higher found that just...
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RS promotes evolution
The Royal Society has issued a statement saying evolution is "recognised as the best explanation for the development of life on Earth from its beginnings and for the diversity of species" and that it...