Net gain
Stirling University's Institute of Aquaculture this week celebrated 25 years of cooperation with the Bangladesh Agricultural University. The institute, backed by the UK Department of International...
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Oxford budget limits undermine quality status
Oxford University lacks the income to maintain its world-class status, John Hood, the institution's new vice-chancellor warned this week. Dr Hood, who this week replaced Sir Colin Lucas, said in his...
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Next week
HAS POSTMODERNISM DESTROYED SOCIAL SCIENCE? Max Steuer and Ed Soja battle it out COMING SOON ICT in Higher Education supplement
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Degree washed out
Swansea Institute of Higher Education has scrapped a degree in surf and beach management, it was revealed this week. The course had effectively been branded "Mickey Mouse" this year at a teachers'...
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Nobel winners
Academics from the US have dominated this week's Nobel Prizes, accounting for six of the eight joint winners in the three categories announced. The physiology or medicine prize was awarded to Richard...
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DNA pioneer dies
Maurice Wilkins, who helped unlock the double helix structure of DNA together with Francis Crick, James Watson and Rosalind Franklin, has died aged 88. He was awarded the Nobel prize in 1962. Stephen...
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Harm reduction
Scientists and policy-makers will this week to discuss whether terrorists could use the results of life-science research to engineer deadly viruses. The summit, "Do No Harm: Reducing the Potential...
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Just ask for cash
UK universities must stop thinking it is wrong to ask for donations and become far more active fundraisers, Malcolm Grant, president and provost of University College London, said this week at the...
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The one who stayed and the one who left
Stewart Barr graduated with a 2:1 from Exeter University's geography department in 1998. He then completed a PhD on waste management and was well placed to go into the commercial sector, but chose to...
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Contract staff laid off in preparation for EU law
Fears are growing that universities may lay off academics on casual contracts rather than give them the permanent jobs to which they are entitled under European regulations. Universities have until...
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Tories pledge early action to ditch fees
Phil Baty reports from the Conservative Party conference in Bournemouth. A Conservative government would move to abolish all tuition fees in its first week in office, Tim Collins, Shadow Education...
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It's my party...
Richard Teather, a lecturer at Bournemouth University, accepts that it is not a great time to be a member of the Conservative Party. After voters in last week's Hartlepool by-election put the...
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QAA's critical report attacked
The head of Britain's first specialist arts university has questioned the integrity of the Quality Assurance Agency after his institution was criticised by the standards watchdog in an audit report....
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Fury at plans to prune council
Imperial College London plans to become the first UK university to get rid of its elected staff and student governors. Staff and students are furious at the proposal to remove six elected staff...
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Vet who can make a dog's life a bit more bearable
Danny Mills may not be able to talk to the animals like the fictional character Doctor Dolittle, but he certainly understands them better than most. Professor Mills holds the UK's first chair in...