Eastell suspended as finances are queried
Richard Eastell, the medical scientist under investigation for alleged research misconduct at Sheffield University, has been suspended from his role as director of research at his local National...
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By George, it's a bespoke course
First Next, then George at Asda, then Per Una for Marks and Spencer, and now George at Heriot-Watt. Fashion visionary George Davies, who transformed the high-street experience, has designs on...
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Welsh trio told to unite or fade
Three Welsh universities have been warned in an official report that they face a "spiral of decline" unless they set aside past grievances to collaborate or merge. The three post-92 universities in...
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Lack of cover prompts legal bid
A second group of students is threatening to take Swansea University to court over the closure of their departments as philosophy undergraduates prepare for a preliminary hearing on their lawsuit...
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Loans cripple US dropouts
Boston. Borrowing cash to pay university tuition fees is putting a crushing financial burden on US students who drop out, according to a report. The study, produced by the National Center for Public...
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Oz effort to keep outpost
Melbourne. Australia's only European study centre, in the Tuscan town of Prato, has been forced to open an English-language school to try to meet some of the running costs. Monash University set up...
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Supersizing on the Seine
Paris. The American University of Paris, the oldest US institution of higher education in Europe, is to launch its first masters programmes and is planning a big increase in student enrolments. "We'...
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NZ lures foreign PhDs
Wellington. Many foreign doctoral students and their children coming to study in New Zealand will pay the same for their education as the locals from next year. The Government will pay the same...
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Star staff cosseted in bid to up RAE rating
Top researchers are being given special treatment by their universities to maximise their chances of securing a new "stellar international" research rating in the run-up to the toughest ever research...
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On Her Majesty's scientific service
Over the years, secret agent and lothario James Bond has got away with some dodgy chat-up lines. But now, thanks to an Oxford University academic who has set herself up as a science consultant to...
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'I'm honoured. if you are nominated your peers trust your judgement'
Professor Wendy Flavell is one of the first women nominated to judge physicists in the next RAE. Wendy Flavell, professor of surface physics at Manchester University, is one of the first women to be...
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Female panellists
Anna Dominiczak of Glasgow University (cardiovascular medicine); Rosalind Smyth of Liverpool University (other hospital-based clinical subjects); Valerie Beral of Oxford University (epidemiology and...
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White activist qualifies as 'black'
A white Jewish lecturer has revealed how he had to declare himself "black" to join an equal opportunities committee of lecturers' union Natfhe. Barnet College lecturer Ronnie Fraser got himself...
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Big three boast most RAE judges
Redbrick institutions dominate the 2008 review panels. Anthea Lipsett reports. Manchester has joined Oxford and Cambridge as the universities with the most judges for the next research assessment...
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Industry members add 'unique blend of experience'
The academic community's fear that panel members from industry will place too much emphasis on applied research is unfounded, according to Barry Furr, chief scientist at AstraZeneca, writes Anthea...