Private tuition booms
Better-off undergraduates gain advantage as contact time shrinks and class sizes grow. Amy Binns reports Undergraduates are increasingly turning to private tutors, according to tutoring agencies,...
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Bradford tears up teach-only contracts
Bradford University has abolished teaching-only contracts after a policy group agreed that all staff should be able to engage in at least some scholarship. Bradford was one of the first universities...
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'He brings a wealth of international experience from his career at unesco'
Kent University's first visiting professor in tourism has brokered UN treaties on heritage and the environment. Unesco director of ecological and earth sciences Natarajan Ishwaran will be coming to...
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On the move...
University of the Arts London has appointed Will Bridge as its first ever deputy rector. Dr Bridge is the current head of London College of Communication, one of University of the Arts London's six...
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Metrics marred by doubt at first cite
When researcher Richard Hull searched online for citations of an article about German and American industrial relations, he did not expect to find links to Cell and Tissue Research and The Journal of...
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UCL is sued over $1bn deal
Pharmaceutical tie-up rekindles battle for academics' rights, reports Melanie Newman. An academic who made a discovery worth more than $1 billion (£500 million) a year to the pharmaceutical industry...
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Research misconduct on rise behind 'walls of silence'
Pressures driving researchers to act unethically are rising, and universities are burying cases of misconduct to protect their reputations, a leading journal editor said this week. Philip Campbell,...
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Next week
Hot air balloons We scan the horizon at the annual Labour Party conference in an attempt to spot concrete policy shifts among all the talk PLUS Reiki business: Roberta Bivins on the long, strange,...
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Elite few still fill top universities
Study by Sutton Trust shows 3% of schools account for 33% of Oxbridge undergraduates. Zoe Corbyn reports. An elite 3 per cent of the UK's schools are providing a third of admissions to Oxford and...
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Lib Dems review fees
The Liberal Democrats reiterated their commitment to scrapping university tuition fees at their annual conference this week. Sarah Teather, the party's Shadow Secretary of State for Innovation,...
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Sector must be set free, says Trainor
Universities need the "managerial autonomy of private sector entrepreneurs" to be efficient and effective, according to the new president of Universities UK. Rick Trainor told the organisation's...
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HR expert says scrap 'off-the-shelf' appraisals
Universities risk alienating staff by not tailoring performance management to the unique nature of academic life, an employment specialist has warned. A survey of 192 institutions by the Universities...
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Leeds met: ideal attitudes
Leeds Metropolitan University has published a set of ideal staff "attitudes, characters and talents", which will be used in appraisals, recruitment and in setting performance-related pay. Draft...
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Woo key staff with hard sell, HEIs told
Universities have budgets equal to many leading companies and as many staff but, according to one management consultant, they are often selling themselves short when it comes to recruiting staff from...
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New foundations
John Denham, Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, has announced that the Government is to fund 15,000 new places on foundation degree courses with the backing of employers....