Budget gap looms in US
Every state in the US faces a potential budget deficit that is likely to leave public higher education with less financial support than ever as it competes with demands for spending on health care...
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Siena imbroglio
The president of the Italian Rectors' Conference, Piero Tosi, has been suspended from his post as rector of Siena University pending an investigation into alleged abuses in hiring staff. The...
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Corporate raiding made easy
The software company that markets the world-dominant commercial virtual learning environment to hundreds of universities has joined the major league of new technology players with its own title in...
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The thoughtful role that dare not speak its name
Despite denials that they exist, British intellectuals are both native and necessary, argues Stefan Collini The history of the idea of the intellectual in Britain is, by and large, a history of...
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Nancy Rothwell
Universities across the country are documenting, reviewing and assessing the research achievements of every member of staff. How important was that research paper, monograph or book? What is the...
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When Harry met Richard, David and bilbo...
SLASH FICTION STUDY DAY Cultural Exchanges Arts Festival De Montfort University At last it can be revealed: Richard Madeley is pregnant with David Beckham's baby. Impossible? Not in the world of...
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Eclipsed on dark side of room
Vice-chancellors met in Birmingham for a Universities UK conference last weekend, and with days to go before the strikes there was no shortage of things to discuss. At the Universities and Colleges...
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Non-group lack food for thought
A meeting was announced for 7.30 on the Friday morning of the rather random non-group known as the "Non-aligned Universities". The programme noted that the meeting would take place in a room so small...
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Striking lack of resemblance
Meanwhile other university chiefs were enjoying the political complications emerging in the two not-yet-merged unions as they organised their strike. Faced with the possibility of his Association of...
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Star-struck come back to Earth
UUK almost proved that higher education has sex appeal, with a nearly star-studded reception for university chancellors on the rather chilly Terrace at Westminster. Patrick Stewart and Anna Ford were...
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We'll reap prizes of a points system
The managed-migration scheme for foreigners wanting to study in the UK will give more control to universities, says Charles Clarke We have a proud tradition of attracting the brightest and best from...
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Selling science is a job for a young person
Most PhD students are youthful and passionate. Stephen Blake says they are the key to turning pupils on to research "What's the point of what you do?" As an engineering PhD student, I deal with lots...
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Soft focus skews the perspective
Everything today's students do is recast as a 'skill' - even when they keep their mouths shut, says Frank Furedi Universities appear to be experiencing a big decline in the number of applications for...
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It pays to keep rivalry healthy
If you want to review other people's work, it is vital to be on top of your subject. And don't be unjustly critical of books that are in competition with yours - you'll live to regret it, advises...
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Time and space in short supply
Name: Michael Preston-Shoot Age: 54 Job: Professor of social work and dean, faculty of health and social sciences, Luton University. Salary: £70,000 Practical training/education: Qualified as a...