Revamped college league is under fire
College heads have warned that the performance of their institutions will be unfairly downgraded in league tables to be published by the government next week. The Association of Colleges says...
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Debt-free study on DFES's mind
"Debt-free" higher education is emerging as a government ambition as support grows for a return to maintenance grants and the scrapping of tuition fees. Ministers and officials are considering moves...
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Great news for Hodge as enrolments soar
More students than ever have enrolled at British universities this autumn, according to the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service, writes Alison Goddard. Some 18,000 more students have taken...
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News in brief
Brunel bids to boost research profile Brunel University is hiring 60 lecturers to help boost its research profile. The move is part of a ten-year plan that includes the immediate...
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Labor tries to knock Afghans off agenda
Australia's Labor party is striving to shift the political focus from the Afghan refugee issue to higher education and other public services in the run-up to the November 10 general election. Party...
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SA minister and Unisa clash over v-c
A bitter clash has erupted between South Africa's biggest distance university and the education minister - over the appointment of a new vice-chancellor ahead of a merger with two other institutions...
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Students' designs aim high
The challenge of designing a futuristic hotel in outer space has stretched to the limits the skills of students at Germany's Darmstadt Technical University. The students were challenged by the German...
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Spanish bill attacked by coalition
The Spanish government's new law to regulate universities is coming under attack from all sides - rectors, unions, students, the opposition and regional government. The bill, known as the...
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Czech funding pledge broken
The rector of central Europe's oldest university is considering resigning after repeated government promises to provide more funding for the sector were broken. Ivan Wilhelm, rector of Charles...
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Local row threatens national pay talks
Two of the chief negotiators in forthcoming "friendly" discussions between lecturers' union Natfhe and university employers, are embroiled in a row over contracts. Jill Jones, chair of Natfhe's...
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QAA to monitor entry practice
New rules to stamp out prejudice in university admissions have been published by the Quality Assurance Agency. Amid persistent concerns that working-class and some ethnic minority students are...
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Skills drought in flood studies
A drought of water engineering skills could hamper efforts to deal with flooding in the United Kingdom, a leading expert has warned. George Fleming, head of water and environmental management at...
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Peaceful teach-in 'says that war is not inevitable'
A teach-in redolent of anti-Vietnam protests during the 1960s is part of the peculiarly academic response to the war on terrorism, writes Alison Utley. Malcolm Povey, a lecturer in food sciences at...
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Lab codes examined amid fear of biowar
The government is considering tighter security for deadly micro organisms and toxins after the terrorist attacks on the United States. The discussions coincide with universities across the United...
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NUS has 'excited phobia of Islam'
The president of Cambridge University's student union has criticised the National Union of Students for the "whipping-up of Islamophobia" following the terrorist attacks on America. Pav Akhtar said...