Fees will not save courses, v-cs say
University heads have doubts about the new fee and bursary regime's ability to attract more working-class students to higher education or to generate enough extra income to prevent course closures, a...
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Students face grilling by cheat detectives
Universities are being urged to establish an army of "academic conduct officers" to combat student cheats under new guidelines published this week. The advice, Deterring, Detecting and Dealing with...
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'I was contented but mmu is the kind of challenge I could not resist'
John Brooks is 'shocked' to have been appointed vice-chancellor of Manchester Metropolitan University John Brooks, vice-chancellor of Wolverhampton University, was approached by Manchester...
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On the move ...
* Ben Kneller, has been appointed reader in Aberdeen University's department of geology and petroleum geology. He was previously at the University of California. * The Scottish University for...
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Merger details go live in slip-up
Lecturers' union Natfhe inadvertently published confidential papers on merger talks with the Association of University Teachers on its website late last week. The documents have since been withdrawn...
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Consultancy pays the bills
Stefaan Simons, a professor of chemical engineering at University College London, did three weeks' consultancy for a multinational consumer products company. Two years later, the firm provided...
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Radiohead's PhD fan mail revealed
Their music has echoed through student halls of residence for the past 12 years. And now academics have caught on to Radiohead, too. Thirteen scholars from around the world have contributed to a...
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Foreign students put off by visa hike
Controversial visa extension charges have already had a serious impact on the ability of UK universities and colleges to recruit overseas students, it emerged this week. More than half the...
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Next week
HIGHBROW LOWDOWN Q When is an intellectual not an intellectual? A When he's an academic COMING SOON Check out how much your vice-chancellor earns in our annual pay survey Steven Rose on the ethics of...
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Unbalanced equation
Failure to act on course cuts will open up subject 'wastelands' across the UK Fears for the future of mathematics courses grew this week as Hull University confirmed the closure of its maths...
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MPs warn underfunding will hit science and technology teaching
Failure to act on course cuts will open up subject 'wastelands' across the UK MPs warned this week that there was "no way" that a university science department could support itself properly under the...
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Students drawn to 'a bit on the side' in language learning
Failure to act on course cuts will open up subject 'wastelands' across the UK More students are taking language courses than ever before, but not at degree level, the latest figures from the...
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Foreign choices
Failure to act on course cuts will open up subject 'wastelands' across the UK Accredited language courses that count towards a degree 2003-04 ,572 2004-05 22,123 Non-accredited...
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Hefce access study 'flawed'
A row over the use of statistics in a major government study on university access erupted this week amid claims that the research was methodologically flawed. The three-year study tracking student...
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Fears over UK's £10m terror plan
A £10 million-a-year Home Office drive to improve the UK's defences against chemical, biological or nuclear attack was branded "a travesty" this week. Academics fear the UK could remain highly...