Paws for thought
Lecturers' unions lobbied this week's pay negotiating meeting from which they had been barred because they refused to suspend their industrial action. The unions used a fat cat to draw attention to...
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'Derisory' 6% offer on table
Lecturers' unions this week rejected as "derisory" a pay offer of 6 per cent over two years, telling employers the dispute would continue until they come up with a credible deal. The Association of...
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'Overhaul engineering'
A third of UK engineering firms believe that graduates' skills deficiencies are costing them money, according to research by the Royal Academy of Engineering and Henley Management College. A report...
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London appoints Smith
Adrian Smith, principal of Queen Mary, University of London, has been appointed deputy vice-chancellor of the University of London. He will take up the part-time post in July for three years. He will...
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Welsh chorus
Welsh universities have created a lobby group to strengthen their voice in the European Union. The Welsh Higher Education Brussels will participate in debates on the Bologna Process and the Lisbon...
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Correction
The figures for the number of high-earning staff at Newcastle University, included in a table accompanying the article "Boom time for high-flyers" (March 17), inadvertently counted clinical staff...
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Incoming president vows to unite NUS
Jessica Shepherd reports from the NUS conference on the election for the top job and the winner's manifesto Independent candidate Gemma Tumelty clinched a narrow victory this week in the election for...
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Fear for funds if foreign intake falls
A downturn in the volatile international student recruitment market is more likely to plunge institutions into the red than a bad result in the research assessment exercise, a report warns....
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£6m drive will focus on alliances
The Government has outlined how it plans to spend £6 million a year on the next Prime Minister's Initiative to attract more overseas students to the UK, writes Tony Tysome. At a conference on...
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Sussex urged to reopen its race row case
A professor who stated that there is 'nothing wrong with racism' could be reinvestigated. Claire Sanders reports Leeds University's decision to begin disciplinary proceedings against Frank Ellis...
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Model student support schemes deserve a star turn
Outstanding Student Financial Support Package Universities offer prospective students a bewildering range of bursaries and scholarships to help pay for tuition fees and living costs, writes Tony...
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Treasure trove
Victorian explorer David Livingstone's drawing of a fish found in Lake Nyassa, which he reached in 1859 on his Zambezi Expedition, is one of 150,000 items in the John Murray archive. The collection,...
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Colleges to gain more autonomy
More higher education is to be provided by further education colleges with greater independence from universities, the Government signalled this week. A national review is to be conducted, which...
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Anxious heads wrangle over RAE
Last week's Budget surprise has stirred panic and split opinion among v-cs. The Times Higher investigates how the future of funding could pan out When officials at the Department for Education and...
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Funds merged to stop R&D money being 'diverted'
Last week's Budget surprise has stirred panic and split opinion among v-cs. The Times Higher investigates how the future of funding could pan out Treasury plans to merge all public funding for UK...