Oxford centre reaps £5.3m EPSRC windfall
* Oxford University has been awarded £5.3 million by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council to set up a new Doctoral Training Centre to strengthen interdisciplinary research. The...
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Operating surpluses to remain 'wafer thin'
The operating surpluses of universities and colleges are set to remain wafer thin, according to the Higher Education Funding Council for England. The analysis is based on financial forecasts prepared...
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Aberdeen professor takes up role in Kirk
Iain Torrance, dean of Aberdeen University's faculty of arts and divinity, has been appointed moderator-designate of the general assembly of the Church of Scotland. In the one-year post, which will...
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Nurse prescribing gets dedicated website
London Metropolitan University's Primary Health and Social Care Centre is launching a website for nurse prescribing on November 7. The site offers nurses the chance to explore nurse prescribing...
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Fire brigade mediator lands top job at Keele
Frank Burchill, who is chairing talks between the Fire Brigades Union and employers, is to be director of a new Centre for Dispute Resolution at Keele University. The centre is the first of its kind...
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Poor RAE performers lose funding for PhDs
Departments that did badly in the research assessment exercise will not have their PhDs funded under plans being developed by the English funding council. The move would further concentrate PhD...
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MPs accuse UK science powers of secrecy
MPs are expected to come down hard on the Office of Science and Technology next week when they publish a report accusing it of unacceptable secrecy. Ian Gibson, MP for Norwich North and chair of the...
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Red tape cut to set market free
Ministers will slash university regulation under plans to let market forces drive higher education. Announcing the creation of a red-tape task force this week, higher education minister Margaret...
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Cyber cheat network grows
Students are openly swapping A-level coursework assignments to plagiarise from one another's work on one of Britain's most popular revision internet sites. Within hours of logging on to the Revise.it...
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Universities blamed for exam fiasco
MPs are to investigate the relative worth of AS and A2 levels after the chief of the exam board at the centre of this summer's exam standards fiasco blamed universities for getting the balance wrong...
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Whistleblowers: Pimlott row sparks Goldsmiths review
'Senior sources at the college said this week that the committee would not have been set up had it not been for concerns about Professor Pimlott's performance' Governors are reviewing the management...
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Whistleblowers: Police hunt for student immigration adviser
A warrant has been issued for the arrest of a man alleged to have been exploiting overseas students hoping to study in the UK. Jabulani Dube is believed to have left Britain after the immigration...
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Unions unite to strike for pay hike in capital
More than 100,000 students will be hit as staff prepare to shut down London universities in a dispute over pay and the failure to recognise the cost of living in the capital. As The THES went to...
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120 more jobs go in restructuring
Some 120 jobs have now been axed at South Bank University in a bid to save £5 million. Some 95 staff have taken voluntary redundancy, 21 have not had their contracts renewed and the rest have retired...
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Union calls for ban on BNP man
Lecturers' leaders have called for the expulsion of a senior British National Party official from Greenwich University. Natfhe, the lecturers' union, said that the presence of Lawrence Rustem, head...