V-c to leave Sussex
Alasdair Smith, vice-chancellor of Sussex University, will step down in August 2007 after nine years in the post, it was confirmed this week. Professor Smith, who will leave a year before the end of...
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Cambridge investment
Cambridge University has appointed its first chief investment officer to manage its endowment funds. Nick Cavalla, chief investment officer of Man Global Strategies, will join the university and take...
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Making better medics
A £4.5 million Centre for Excellence in Medical Education has been launched at Liverpool University. The centre will develop a programme of teaching to help students graduate with the "professional...
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Prize for chip spin-off
A Manchester University spin-off company, Transitive Ltd, which develops computer chip technology, has won £500,000 in the inaugural Knowledge Transfer Challenge, run by the Engineering and Physical...
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Boost for business
Aston University is to launch a pilot scheme to encourage regional businesses to make use of academics to improve innovation in industry. The Index scheme will award 80 small businesses in the West...
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Union disabled guide
The University and College Union will next week launch a new guide on the rights of disabled staff working in higher education under amendments to the Disability Discrimination Act, which came into...
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Access: must do better
Performance reviews highlight struggle to hit Government's widening participation target, writes Tony Tysome. The Government wants universities to step up efforts to attract more students from...
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Entrance exams discourage less well-off
Concern has emerged that entrance exams designed to help prestigious universities choose between thousands of A-level candidates with identical grades may be deterring students from disadvantaged...
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Rough justice
Rough justice: Some 20 students from Southampton University's Star (Student Action for Refugees) organisation spent a week living on the street with no access to money in an effort to highlight the...
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Young researchers face RAE exclusion
Efforts to reward early-career staff in the research assessment exercise may be failing, reports Anthea Lipsett Young and less experienced researchers face having their careers blighted before they...
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Charter launched to halt 'exploitation'
Campaign groups are trying to stop the exploitation of the 15,000 postgraduates who teach in universities, who they claim are being used as cheap labour. The University and College Union, the...
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Teach or lose cash proposal
Academics should receive research funding only if they agree to teach their discoveries to undergraduates, it was suggested this week, writes Jessica Shepherd. Paul Ramsden, the chief executive of...
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New group against tests
Academics who oppose animal research at Oxford University have launched the Voice for Ethical Research at Oxford, a group to campaign against vivisection. The group was set up to oppose animal...
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Focus on animal ethics
More than 100 academics from ten countries are to advise the new Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, launched online this week to put animals on the intellectual agenda. The centre is the world's first...
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Maths counts in Wales
Four Welsh institutions have joined forces to develop a new £5 million Wales Institute for Mathematical and Computational Sciences. The venture, backed by funding from the Higher Education Funding...