UK eU waits to hear its fate
Plans to restructure the flagship online venture for UK universities will be decided this week. The Higher Education Funding Council for England was due to discuss a revised plan for the UK e-...
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To the barricades - it's time for a lesson in politics
If academics want to fight cuts, they should ape the French and appeal to the national interest, says Ruth Morse France has a recently refreshed rightwing government, and cuts in university and...
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Jobwatch: legal salaries soar
The race to improve research ratings in 2008 and a return to practice are driving up academic salaries in law and driving down the age for a chair in the subject. Lee Elliot Major reports on the...
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Who got that job?
Vince Ramprogus Job advertised in The Times Higher , September 19 2003 Dean (Pro-Vice-Chancellor) of the Faculty of Community Studies and Education The faculty of health, social care and education at...
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The only way to get with the program
The tables are turning on US campuses as tech-illiterate faculties hire students to bring them up to speed on the latest software. Stephen Phillips reports The image of an ageing lecturer struggling...
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Teaching: on the front line
What is your experience of teaching? Pat Leon asks teachers how they manage Name: Peter Chevins Age: 60 Job: Senior lecturer in biology and neuroscience; director of studies and finance manager,...
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Catholic culture rattles Glasgow
Tensions between Catholic and secular staff in Glasgow University's education faculty are still running high five years after the university merged with Scotland's only Catholic college of education...
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IP rules will 'ensure academic freedom'
Cambridge academics would have the right to publish their discoveries free of charge for the public good even if the university felt there was money to be made by selling them commercially, according...
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London Met staff threaten boycott over jobs
Lecturers at London Metropolitan University this week threatened an academic boycott of the institution amid claims that they have been told to accept new terms and conditions or lose their jobs....
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Gloves are off as bell rings for round three
There were bloody noses all round when the peers debated the government's plans for an access regulator this week. Paul Hill took a ringside seat Lord Forsyth stepped up to the despatch box like a...
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Scottish prizes win on prestige
Edinburgh University's James Tait Black memorial prizes may lack the glamour and razzmatazz of the Man Booker or the Orange prizes for fiction, but they make up for it in prestige and longevity. The...
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Survey: University life is a far cry from stereotype
Going into higher education once meant leaving home and behaving badly, but a new survey paints a very different picture. Anna Fazackerley reports. The popular stereotype of the carefree student who...
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French to tackle housing
The growing tendency of French students to study away from home rather than at their local university is putting pressure on student housing. Traditionally, students lived with their parents while...
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Europe's old hands offer expertise
The Coimbra group of Europe's 39 oldest universities is offering itself as a role model for the European higher education and research areas. At the close of a three-day meeting in Siena last week,...
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Teachers' 'shocking' maths takes toll
Maths skills among many schoolteachers are "bordering on the shocking" and are exacerbating already serious problems facing universities in recruiting the next generation of science students and...