Course hits rocky road
Coventry University has become the latest institution to fail an inspection of a foundation degree. The Quality Assurance Agency said that it had "no confidence" in the academic standards or in the...
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New branch opening
Peterborough is to get its first university campus as Anglia Ruskin University develops links with Peterborough Regional College. Programmes in Peterborough will focus on health, enterprise and...
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Service charges
A paper in a Social Market Foundation book published this week echoes calls for the cap on top-up fees to be lifted. Alissa Goodman from the Institute for Fiscal Studies argues that fees should rise...
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Correction
Manchester University wishes to point out that Joseph Stiglitz, director of the Brooks World Poverty Institute, is not receiving a £250,000 salary ("£250K to wage war on poverty", February 10). The...
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RAE link to funding may thin PhD ranks
A number of old universities could see big reductions in their research student numbers as a result of a new funding methodology for PhD students, a conference on graduate education heard this week....
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Let's face it... what you see could well be what you get
People perceive facial features to be an indicator of personality, especially when looking for a partner, according to research. Psychologists and biologists at Durham, St Andrews and Liverpool...
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North bids for £100m to beef up industry ties
Universities in the north of England are bidding for a share of £100 million of government funds to extend research collaboration and links with industry in key areas they say are ripe for...
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Wales draws big names...
Cardiff University is at the head of a drive by Welsh institutions to attract high-profile research stars as the next research assessment exercise draws near. Among its latest appointments are a...
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...but fears big money problems if top-ups rise
The Welsh Assembly would be forced to abandon its new funding regime for higher education if a predicted rise in top-up fees in England to £5,000 a year went ahead, a leading Assembly member has...
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Brown ruled uneasy court
As Chancellor Gordon Brown boosted his credentials as prime minister-in-waiting by taking centre stage in Government this week, newly released archive records revealed how his 1970s move to centre...
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Web protest student gets 'death threat'
A law student who launched websites castigating his former university and encouraging students to report problems with their courses has contacted the police after receiving hate mail that he...
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See Emily play
A film by two lecturers at Teesside University has been voted Best Animated Film of 2005, beating the blockbuster Wallace and Gromit animation, The Curse of the Were-Rabbit . Clive Tonge and...
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Blunder defers debate
A major international conference to discuss the pros and cons of an academic boycott of Israeli universities has been postponed after organisers mistakenly included an article by a Holocaust denier...
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Israel boycott dispute back on AUT agenda
An academic boycott of Israeli universities over their Government's treatment of Palestinians was thrust firmly back on to the agenda of the Association of University Teachers this week, when a...
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Colleagues back tutor facing sack over e-mail
Academics have rallied in support of a Middlesex University professor who faces the sack after he vented his frustrations at red tape in a series of no-holds-barred e-mails to colleagues. Richard...