Unfair dismissal award
A senior lecturer from Liverpool Hope University has been awarded £55,000 by an employment tribunal for unfair dismissal. Brenda Ashton, 53, resigned as director of the Centre for English Language at...
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Cash for part-timers
The Higher Education Funding Council for England and the Department for Education and Skills have confirmed that an additional £40 million will be allocated in 2006-07 and 2007-08 for part-time...
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Sir Roland Smith chair
The widow of the late Professor Sir Roland Smith, Lady Joan Smith, has donated £500,000 to Lancaster University to fund a chair in strategic management. Sir Roland, who died in 2003, was the first...
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Dance partnership
The Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance has become an affiliate of the Conservatoire for Dance and Drama. There are now eight Conservatoire schools offering degree courses in dance, drama...
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Drop-outs discussed
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation this week published From Life Crisis to Lifelong Learning: Rethinking Working-Class 'Drop Out' from Higher Education, a report examining working-class students'...
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Top tutors may win £10K
The best lecturers will be in line for a £10,000 bonus under the revamped National Teaching Fellows scheme. The programme will also allow teams of academics to bid for study grants of up to £250,000...
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Green-brick university
(The Zuckerman Institute for Connective Environmental Research (Zicer) has been named Low-Energy Building of the Year. Zicer, on the University of East Anglia campus, was given the award by a...
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No grant reductions following top-up fees, promises Hefce head
Higher education funding chiefs have said they will not cut grants to English universities in the wake of extra income from top-up fees, writes Anthea Lipsett. Sir Howard Newby, chief executive of...
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2006 to see more foreign applicants
A sharp rise in the number of applications from European Union students is shown in the first official figures for university admissions for 2006, when top-up fees are introduced. According to the...
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Know your 'arse' from your 'hello'
In the past, a true cad might have ended a love affair by letter. Now, it seems, men are just as likely to do the dirty deed via text message. A study of the behaviour of young mobile phone users by...
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Security at all-time high
While London universities plough cash into high-tech protection in the wake of the July attacks, there are fears the terror Bill will criminalise staff and students Security at London universities is...
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Academics won't be asked to act as 'police snoops'
While London universities plough cash into high-tech protection in the wake of the July attacks, there are fears the terror Bill will criminalise staff and students Fears that academics would be...
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Libraries urge clarity on terrorism criteria
While London universities plough cash into high-tech protection in the wake of the July attacks, there are fears the terror Bill will criminalise staff and students Librarians and researchers could...
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Biometrics boost campus safety
While London universities plough cash into high-tech protection in the wake of the July attacks, there are fears the terror Bill will criminalise staff and students Surveillance has become more...
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King's spending spree targets UCL
King's College London has embarked on an aggressive recruitment and expansion campaign in clinical sciences, months after losing out on a multimillion-pound research partnership in the field, writes...