In the news: Sir Martin Rees
Astronomer royal Sir Martin Rees established his name in the firmament of outspoken UK academics when he became the first scientist to address the Labour Party Conference in Brighton three years ago...
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Appointments
Dave Berger, senior counsellor at the University of Hull, has been elected to serve as chair elect for 2003-04 (following on as chair for two years from 2004-06) of the Association for University and...
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TUC backlash over fees hike
The labour movement resoundingly rejected the government's plans to introduce university top-up fees and to concentrate research funding this week. In a clear sign of the rough ride ahead for the...
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Taylor set to advise Blair
Think-tank chief Matthew Taylor has been recruited to give momentum to the Blair government as the new No. 10 policy adviser, as Labour begins trawling for ideas for its next election manifesto....
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Cubie warns Scots of risk of top-ups brain drain
Scotland risks losing research teams and overseas students if English universities end up with proportionally better funding after the white paper proposals, Andrew Cubie has warned. Dr Cubie, whose...
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Speak to staff, v-cs are urged
Academics too often take the view that the strategic goals of their university are nothing to do with them and work instead to their own agendas, vice-chancellors were told this week. Universities UK...
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Next week
HE Trends 2003 Student numbers, government funding and projections, and degree classes. Plus, coverage of the OECD Education at a Glance 2003 report - how does the UK compare? Also Ian Wilmut reviews...
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Outsiders are moving into pole position
As UUK meets this week, Claire Sanders looks at 'non-aligned' institutions. The power of "non-aligned" universities, those that sit firmly outside bodies such as the Coalition of Modern Universities...
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Ex-postie plans to deliver
Top-up fees are a tool for social justice insists new higher education minister Alan Johnson, who left school at 15. In his first major interview, he tells Alan Thomson how they will crowbar working-...
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Prized words on science
This year's THES /Oxford University Press science writing prize was won by Richard Hayward, paediatric neurosurgery consultant at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London. His winning entry appears in...
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Cook wants to be alone
Former foreign secretary Robin Cook has complained to Edinburgh city council about the prospect of flats being occupied by students. Mr Cook, who has a flat in one of the city's most affluent areas,...
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SQA chief to step down
David Fraser this week said he would resign as head of the Scottish Qualifications Authority on October 31 for personal reasons. The SQA said Mr Fraser's departure came shortly after the second...
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York conference hit
An environmental protest group has sabotaged a York University biology conference sponsored by biotech giant Bayer, which has interests in genetically modified technology. The protesters are thought...
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All change at Glasgow
Glasgow University's appointment of three of Scotland's best-known writers to a chair in creative writing has ended with the resignation of two of them. Novelists Alasdair Gray and James Kelman and...
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Cancún petition
The Association of University Teachers and Natfhe are among unions, student associations and professional groups that have signed a petition urging trade ministers in Cancún to exclude education...