Tax breaks key to endowments
Improved tax breaks should be offered to those making donations to universities and other charities, a government task force on fundraising will propose next week. The long-awaited report on how the...
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£100m back pay as AUT agrees deal
University academic staff will receive well over £100 million in back pay following the Association of University Teachers' vote to accept the employers' revised pay offer. More than 84 per cent of...
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Natfhe up in arms over 'unjust' plan to raise pensionable age
Lecturers' leaders have attacked the "outrage and injustice" of plans to raise the pensionable age for academics, writes Phil Baty. John Wilkin, president-elect of lecturers' union Natfhe, said this...
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RS looks at how role models can make science enticing
The power of role models in attracting young people to careers in science will be explored by the Royal Society in a national survey. The online survey, launched this week by the RS and funded by the...
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New mine of info
A national centre for text mining, which will allow academics to extract facts and insights from the burgeoning volume of journal articles, is to be set up in the UK. The £1 million initiative,...
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Canadians get invite
Keith O'Brien, Scotland's Roman Catholic cardinal, has urged Canadian students to "seriously consider" coming to live in Scotland, reversing more than two centuries of emigration from the old country...
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Explorer show opens
The granddaughter of polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton opened an exhibition at Cambridge University this week of "hidden" documents and artefacts relating to his Antarctic journeys. The Honourable...
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Scots set up think-tank
The University of the Highlands and Islands Millennium Institute is setting up a think-tank to give the region a stronger voice with which to influence government policy both in Westminster and...
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£33K debt forecast
Graduates could leave university owing as much as £33,708 by 2010 if the trend of rising student debt continues, a high-street bank claimed this week. Figures published by Barclays suggest that...
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Plea to invest in stopping dropouts
Universities should invest some of their extra income from tuition fees in measures to ensure that fewer students drop out of degree courses, vice-chancellors will be advised next week. A senior...
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Lords want weaker Offa
Conservative peers moved to "draw the teeth" of the planned university access regulator, Offa, ahead of the higher education bill's House of Lords committee stage next week. Tory frontbench peer Lord...
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English fee refugees pose threat to Scots
More English students will take places at Scottish universities this year, raising fears that top-up fees in England will restrict access for local students north of the border. The latest student...
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Scholars meet in Lancs room to ogle Venus
Astronomers and historians will open a window on a past triumph of science when they gather in a Lancashire manor house to witness the transit of Venus. People around the world will try to catch a...
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Union to ballot on staff cuts
Northumbria University this week announced plans to cut 58 teaching posts in a move that has left staff reeling, according to union officials. Lecturers' union Natfhe announced its intention to...
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Scots fearful of new divide
Scottish higher education principals have accused the Scottish Executive of reinstating the binary divide in its proposals to merge the further and higher education funding councils. And Universities...