Research lost in fire
Years of pioneering research into sporting performance has been lost in a blaze causing millions of pounds worth of damage at Strathclyde University. More than 100 firefighters battled the fire,...
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Erasmus cash agreed
A compromise has ended months of wrangling over the budget for the European Union new Erasmus Mundus programme. EU education ministers this week backed a compromise €230 million (£160 million) upper...
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Archaeologists told to stop having a dig at TV
Archaeologists should stop moaning about TV's fascination with archaeology and enjoy the golden age of televised digs and historic reconstructions, a study has concluded, writes Steve Farrar. Despite...
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V-cs back 'university title' plans but doubts remain
Vice-chancellors have backed calls to abandon the requirement that organisations have at least 4,000 students and a broad spread of subjects before they can qualify for the title "university",...
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Melville calls for a single watchdog
A single giant standards agency should be created through a merger between the Quality Assurance Agency and the government's schools exam watchdog, the chairman of the University Vocational Awards...
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Access undermined by 'unfair' system
The government's drive to widen access to higher education through the college sector is being undermined by an "unfair" quality-assurance system, the Association of Colleges has warned, writes Tony...
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Private degree market stifled
Governments should avoid over-regulating the "inexorable rise" of private, profit-making higher education businesses, according to the Association of Commonwealth Universities. Roger King, the first...
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Performers must face music and write
Arts and humanities research chiefs have infuriated musicians with a declaration that their performances cannot be classified as research. In a paper that seeks to draw a line under the acrimonious...
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'Dreary' Dundee is the place to be
Dundee University is the best UK scientific institution to work in, according to the results of an international survey of life scientists. A survey of several thousand researchers by the journal The...
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Academics arrested in Zimbabwe protests
John Makumbe, a political scientist at the University of Zimbabwe and head of the local branch of Transparency International, has been arrested just weeks after warning that civil society was to...
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Coke ban still fizzing in Dublin
Students at University College Dublin have voted to keep a ban on the sale of Coca-Cola products in student union outlets on campus. A referendum has resulted in 59 per cent of students voting in...
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Strikes scupper reforms
Confusion over the future of plans to give France's universities more autonomy to is deepening as students continue to mount protests. After denying reports last Friday that President Jacques Chirac...
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Top Russian rector forced out
The rector of one of Russia's top universities has resigned after falling victim to the political fall-out following the arrest of oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Leonid Nevzlin, who owns 8 per cent...
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EU votes on stem cells fail to solve problem
The European Parliament has moved closer to agreement on a common policy on the use of funds to finance experiments on human stem cells - but their proposals are likely to be ignored. Members of the...
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Moscow fire kilss 36 foreign students
Moscow fire and police officials were this week continuing their investigation into the deaths of 36 foreign students after a blaze at the Peoples' Friendship University. Vietnamese, Chinese, African...