Scientists fear broken pledge
The Treasury is privately planning to claw back a significant proportion of the science funding that it committed in its much-vaunted ten-year review of science last summer, The Times Higher has...
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Funding council to downplay talk of crisis subjects
Funding council chiefs will next week play down talk of subjects in crisis while leaving the door ajar for limited Government intervention to protect "strategically important" subjects. Seven months...
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Lyrically libellous
Poem about Frances Howard's marriage to Robert Carr A page, a knight, a viscount and an Erle All foure weare wedded to one lustfull girle A match well made, for shee was likewise foure A wife, a...
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Saucy poets let rip on farts of thunder
Hundreds of libellous poems about murder, corruption and thunderous farting in Parliament have been brought into the open for the first time in 400 years by an academic at Exeter University, writes...
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Next week
The film, the fiction and the fact 'Not escapist fantasies, but works of art with unique relevance for our times' - Arthur C. Clarke on The War of the Worlds and the new Penguin Wells
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Dispute could sink pay deal
Moves to implement the most dramatic reform of lecturers' pay and careers for decades faced potential collapse at more than 80 post-1992 universities and colleges this week as lecturers' union Natfhe...
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Bid to cut red tape could trim sector's bill by £15m a year
Cutting university bureaucracy could save enough money to pay for "one or two" extra academics in every institution in the UK, the head of Britain's red-tape watchdog said this week. The Higher...
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Harassed key staff 'badly paid'
The men and women who work as support staff to keep Britain's universities running are harassed, overworked and among the lowest paid public sector employees in the country, according to a survey,...
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Tangled tale of an editor, the LSE, an EC bigwig, a billionaire and a cruise
A senior manager at the BBC has accused the London School of Economics of a "conflict of interest" over its links with a Greek business magnate. Bill Hayton, who manages the BBC World Service's 12...
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New neighbours for Nelson's feathered friends
Students will join pigeons, lions and a 19th-century naval hero as residents of one of London's most famous spots next year under plans to turn offices in Trafalgar Square into halls of residence,...
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Non-negotiable stance kills London Met talks
Talks to end the 14-month industrial dispute at London Metropolitan University collapsed this month when Brian Roper, the vice-chancellor, insisted on nine "non-negotiable" principles to take to the...
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UCL protest gives catering firm the bird
Some 2,000 staff and students have joined a campaign to stop University College London contracting out its refectory serv ices to Scolarest, the catering firm that gained notoriety for serving food...
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Welsh top-ups waiver
Opposition party leaders in the Welsh Assembly have struck a deal with the ruling Labour Government over proposals to introduce top-up fees in Wales from 2007. Under the agreement, which had yet to...
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VAT bills thwart funding
Universities could face extra bills of several million pounds in VAT fees, accountancy firm KPMG warned this week. A tribunal that investigated a case at Glasgow University ruled that HM Revenue and...
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Off to the pictures
The British Film Institute is seeking input on how to improve access to its collection of film and television materials. Ultimately, its goal is to create a centre for learning and research and it is...