Cancer research boost
Glasgow University and Cancer Research UK have won planning permission for a £14 million centre for cancer research. The site, expected to be completed by 2006, will house up to 240 researchers....
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Boys shunning HE
The number of 11 to 16-year-old boys who want to go to university has dropped from 70 per cent to 66 per cent in the last year. according to a Mori poll for the Sutton Trust. One-third of those...
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Ethnic increase
The proportion of students from ethnic minority backgrounds entering higher education rose between 2001-02 and 2002-03, figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency show. The percentage of non...
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Foundation degrees lack awarding body
Exam board Edexcel may not be able to deliver its flagship "suite" of new foundation degrees because of quality assurance rules. Edexcel announced almost 100 BTec foundation degrees in February with...
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Doubt over expansion strategy
New government figures show that foundation degrees are failing to attract more full-time students into higher education, it was claimed this week. The figures suggest that rather than attracting...
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Artist's £75,000 chance
Self-taught Fife artist Jack Vettriano is funding a scholarship to let a disadvantaged student attend St Andrews University. The artist, whose most famous work, The Singing Butler , sold for...
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St Paul's defiled by drunks and tourists
It was St Paul's Cathedral's lowest ebb. Schoolchildren smashed windows, drunks defecated on the floor and tourists climbed the crumbling spire to drop stones on to people below. Even some of the...
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Peers seek to secure future
Peers could force a new clause into the higher education bill to ensure that no future government could claw back extra top-up fee income by cutting public funding for universities. A widely...
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York's plan to expand will create 2,000 jobs
York University is planning to double in size over the next decade in a move expected to create about 2,000 jobs, including 1,000 academic positions. The university plans to introduce a range of new...
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Be-spoke travel
William Hoedeman and Claire McNamara are among the 350 members of staff and students at York University who can now borrow a bicycle to commute between King's Manor in the city centre and the...
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Why I ...think campus novels reveal the changing identity of university heads
Consider the principal of a redbrick university in the 1950s, "A small ventricose man with a polished, rosy bald head", and a laugh like a sound effect in a horror film. This character had only a...
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Design your own V-C and win £500
Can you create the literary v-c for the top-up fees era? The Times Higher is launching a competition for budding authors to write the opening chapter - 2,000 words - of a satirical novel depicting...
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Bond with chemistry
Australia is backing science with cash and support. The UK should take note, says Andrew Holmes Before the introduction of PhD degrees in Australia, most Australians received their doctoral training...
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PhD comes with straitjacket
What's happened to original thought? The doctoral system seems to have killed it off, says Allan Reese The reputation of the UK PhD, widely viewed as a badge of excellence, is becoming precarious....
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I'm terribly sorry, but a fat cat ate my principles
When the money men sweep through the front door, academic integrity slinks out the back, says Valerie Atkinson. There comes a point in the academic year, just hours before degree results are...