Napier in China tie-up
Joan Stringer, the principal of Napier University in Edinburgh, has unveiled plans for a joint college with Shandong University of Finance in China that would allow Chinese students to study for a...
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Just say 'Yuck!' to fight disease
Deaths from infectious disease could be reduced by stimulating people's "yuck response", a disease control expert believes. Val Curtis, director of the hygiene centre at the London School of Hygiene...
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Hard sell 'is acceptable'
Universities must adapt to the modern consumer culture and should not be shy of "courting" prospective students and their parents through the hard sell, the admissions dean at a top US university...
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Graduates paid big bucks and peanuts
Graduate salaries span a startlingly wide range, with a fortunate handful earning more than £40,000 a year in their first jobs but a considerable number on less than £10,000, according to latest...
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Oxford bid to halve tutorials is slated
The Oxford tutorial system - in which students have traditionally received one-to-one tuition from academics - is facing major cutbacks amid concerns that students are being "overtaught" at the...
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Eggheads
Napier University students are going to work in an egg with the opening of a £30 million redeveloped business and law campus. The Craiglockhart campus features an egg-shaped 200-seat lecture theatre...
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Northern Ireland split over top-ups
Proposals announced last week to charge top-up fees for students in Northern Ireland have divided the two universities in the province. Despite across-the-board opposition from the suspended...
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Senior academics under fire for suspending student hackers
Three senior academics at Oxford University were accused this week of harshly treating two student journalists, who have been suspended after they uncovered major security flaws in the university's...
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Lecturer cashes in on a whale of a tale
A Scottish college lecturer has landed himself fiction and non-fiction publishing deals stemming from a dissertation on whaling he did in his final undergraduate year. Malcolm Archibald, a former...
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QAA report gives APU little room for appeal
Concern about the limited rights of appeal against the verdict of quality inspectors surfaced this week in the wake of the most critical report so far on a university's management. As The Times...
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Scop faces uncertainty as members seek to trade up
The future of the body that represents higher education colleges was in doubt this week as it emerged that up to half its members could seek university status. Leaders of the Standing Conference of...
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LSC review aims to ease higher transition
A new relationship between universities and further education colleges could grow out of a major review launched by the Learning and Skills Council this week, writes Tony Tysome. The LSC's Agenda for...
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LSE buys space to grow
The London School of Economics and Political Science will increase student numbers by a fifth over the next five years following the multimillion-pound purchase of the Public Trustee Office next to...
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UK limbers up for push into South American market
British universities are increasingly focusing on South America as a market for overseas students. The region is being targeted to diversify the non-European Union student population in British...
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Fungus team wins funding
Aberdeen University has won almost £250,000 to target a common fungal condition that can prove deadly when it becomes "the disease of the diseased". Microbiologist Neil Gow, one of the principal...