Teaching courses prove a struggle
HEA study finds that workloads are too heavy for junior staff. Jessica Shepherd reports Many junior academics struggle to complete the extensive workloads demanded by courses that aim to improve...
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Lights, camera and a colony of bats
Most universities are familiar with the nightmare of planning negotiations. But few have attempted to turn an ancient castle, complete with bat colony, into a cutting-edge laboratory. Against all the...
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QAA links to sector betray students
Higher education watchdog the Quality Assurance Agency risks being too deep in universities' and the Government's pockets to expose failings in the sector, according to a damning report, writes...
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Dispute dispatches
* Managers at Northumbria University insisted this week that they had not abandoned plans to dock 100 per cent pay from all staff taking part in the boycott of exams and assessments. After an...
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UEA v-c threatens staff with legal bills
Students increasingly oppose the boycott, Ucea is forced to eat humble pie and examiners are up in arms. The Times Higher reports on the pay dispute. A vice-chancellor is threatening to pursue...
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Up to 100% of pay withheld
V-cs believe wage docking could force an end to the dispute, reports Anthea Lipsett. Two out of five vice-chancellors are docking pay in a bid to force academics to abandon industrial action, a...
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Finger points at managers
40 per cent of students say those in charge are responsible for the pay dispute. Jessica Shepherd reports. Two fifths of students blame university managers for the lecturers' pay dispute while an...
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Examiners prepared to resign
Almost a quarter of external examiners at Worcester University are threatening to resign over the university's plans to counteract the exams and marking boycott, writes Phil Baty. Worcester wrote to...
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UCEA is sent to the headmaster for a severe ticking off
The news that the Universities and Colleges Employers' Association had been called before the House of Commons' Education Select Committee to face a dressing down over "misleading" statements it had...
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Seven-hour talks end in glimmer of hope
Hopes of a breakthrough in the pay dispute were raised as The Times Higher went to press this week but senior union sources suggested that there was only very limited optimism that the employers'...
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Dismay greets PQA decision
Students and new universities find reforms to the admissions system too tame, writes Claire Sanders. New universities and students were disappointed this week after the Government failed to commit to...
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Cash fillip for gifted pupils
Talented schoolchildren who might drop out are to be paid to attend a further education college under a pilot scheme at Exeter University. The university has joined forces with Exeter College to fund...
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'Fee cuts will skew intake'
The director of the admissions watchdog body has admitted that he is worried that universities will offer students cut-price places in September. Sir Martin Harris, head of the Office for Fair Access...
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Unions may face legal action over running of no-confidence poll in v-c
Organisers of a vote of no confidence in the vice-chancellor of London Metropolitan University, Brian Roper, could face criminal and civil proceedings over how the ballot was conducted, the...
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Sleuth on the trail of deadly droves
JOE BROWNLIE PROFESSOR OF VETERINARY PATHOLOGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES Joe Brownlie is the Sherlock Holmes of animal disease. "The fun of science is like detective work - trying to find out the truth...