Creative changes
The new arts institution to be created next week through the merger of the Kent Institute and the Surrey Institute will be called University College for the Creative Arts at Canterbury, Epsom,...
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Wanted: PhD feedback
The National Postgraduate Committee is conducting a survey in association with The Times Higher on the perceptions and expectations of PhD students. To take part, visit www.npc.org.uk/survey2005 ....
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Improve staying power
A computer system that calculates the risk of students dropping out will be tested in September after research showed the majority of undergraduates who leave a course do so in the first four weeks....
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'Dropping out can be the right thing to do'
Teesside University researcher Diane Nutt was not surprised when her study of student drop-outs found that many had complex reasons for leaving. When she dropped out of a Nottingham Trent University...
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Male arts graduates may never recoup degree cost
Studying for an arts degree in future may cost men more than the lifetime salary gain they will accrue from being a graduate, according to research, writes Paul Hill. A study published this week in...
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Physics leads the field on pay
One in five university physicists earns more than £50,000 a year, an official report on university staffing trends reveals. The study, which looked at the numbers and pay of academics in England over...
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Access to drive a hiring bonanza
Tens of thousands of extra academic and administrative staff will be needed in English universities in the next five years as student numbers continue to grow, a report on staffing trends concludes,...
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Non-academic posts dominated by female staff
Women make up almost two thirds of professional, administrative and support staff in English universities, according to the first snapshot of non-academic employees in the sector, writes Tom...
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Lincoln v-c has 2020 vision of a great city
David Chiddick, Lincoln University's vice-chancellor, is on a mission to help Lincoln realise its potential as "one of the world's great small cities" and safeguard the region's future. Professor...
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Boycott staff face 'punitive' levies
Lecturers who took part in an industrial dispute at London Metropolitan University have been told they will lose up to 80 per cent of their salaries for more than two months. The news came as a 15-...
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Oxford set to reveal true exam outcomes
Oxford colleges are preparing to publish their students' examination results for the first time in a bid to correct "inaccuracies" in an unofficial annual league table. The number of students...
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Teacher trainees opt to learn on job
Universities are losing thousands of potential trainee teachers to employment-based teacher-training schemes, a report suggests. Teaching students are being lured away from universities by in-school...
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Grid takes dig into the future
The Silchester Roman Town archaeological dig near Reading seems an unlikely spot for a high-tech computing project. But plans by Reading University academics to create a virtual research environment...
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Uwic and Newport's merger talks collapse
The future of higher education in southeast Wales was in question this week as a second effort by the University of Wales Institute Cardiff to merge with one of its neighbours collapsed. Governors at...
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Ideals get the chop, quietly
A US university president who at one time insisted that she supported the right of a controversial speaker to appear at a campus event has quietly cut the funding of the initiative that issued the...