Scientists fail to sway public
Scientists are fuelling public fears about their work by failing to explain how it is regulated, an expert group has found. A high-level working party on peer review organised by the Sense about...
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Scheme sets student quotas
Selected universities will be allocated a quota of postgraduate studentships in a radical move by the Economic and Social Research Council, writes Anna Fazackerley. Most of the ESRC's awards for a...
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Disabled learners lack widespread support, study finds
Disabled students still face significant barriers in higher education, with gaps between institutions' policy and practice, an Economic and Social Research Council report has found. The study, by...
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Visa fee hike plan sparks outrage
Vice-chancellors and international student representatives are alarmed over legislation that would give the Home Office the power to introduce visa application charges of up to £500. The proposals,...
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Russell engineers a win
An engineer who cut his student failure rate by 30 per cent in one year is the winner of the third e-tutor of the year award sponsored by The THES and the Learning and Teaching Support Network. Mark...
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Scots to lure foreign talent
Scottish universities hope to boost overseas student recruitment under plans being discussed by the Scottish Executive and Home Office, writes Olga Wojtas. There is growing speculation that the...
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Whistleblowers: Review finds Oxford Brookes 'deficient'
A group of students seeking tens of thousands of pounds in compensation after Oxford Brookes University failed to gain professional accreditation for their vocational degree have had their case...
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'High-fliers are more fun'
High-flying students who gain first-class degrees enjoy their courses more than their lower-achieving classmates and do much less paid work, according to a survey of more than 4,000 undergraduates....
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Address student stress, NHS told
The National Health Service must do more to help students with mental health problems, a leading psychiatrist said this week. Mike Hobbs, chair of the Student Mental Health Working Group at the Royal...
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Scare tactics silence science
Animal-rights extremists have made a whole generation of scientists too afraid to speak about their research. But they are being encouraged to fight back. Anna Fazackerley reports. Plans for a prize...
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Hastings hub site opens up access
A higher education outpost was opened in Hastings, East Sussex, this week by Alan Johnson, the higher education minister. University Centre Hastings aims to consolidate higher education provision in...
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Paisley party wants to lose HE department
The department for universities and further education in Northern Ireland could prove a casualty of the review of the Good Friday Agreement that began this week. The Reverend Ian Paisley's Democratic...
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Britain rallies to Iraqi cause
The isolation felt by academics at Iraqi universities will ease next week when 12 deans and other managers arrive in Birmingham for the first of a series of training programmes for administrators. A...
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Female educationists come top of the giving league
Clear evidence that education tends to attract people with a philanthropic bent has come from a study of charitable legacies in Northern Ireland since 1930. Educationists comprised the most generous...
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Why I ...believe US visa restrictions will damage science
My husband and I are scientists who emigrated from Europe to the US in the 1960s, returned to Europe for nine years in the 1990s and were then recruited by an American university as senior professors...