High-flyers get lost in space
RAE bias and uncertain prospects are often a fellow's lot, says Anthea Lipsett Research fellows - long seen as the future stars of academe with enviable positions - are often poorly treated by...
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South East survivors
Universities in the South East are less likely to generate spin-off companies - but the ones they create are more likely to survive than those elsewhere. A report on the impact of higher education on...
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Oxbridge is not on the Case for PhDs
Oxford and Cambridge universities appear to be totally uninterested in joint projects with industry to support PhD students, it was claimed this week. The comments came as research revealed that the...
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Stag hunting
Durham University last month sold some 900 deer-related paintings, books and artefacts from its Whitehead Collection to raise money to preserve the archive's core books and papers and to fund work by...
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Southampton hits the big time with win of £104m
Southampton University has emerged as the UK's third biggest earner of research grants in the engineering and physical sciences, ahead of Oxford University. Cambridge University, Imperial College...
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Subject audits ditched by QAA
'Light touch' assessment deemed to be too heavy a burden for universities Lecturers will be rejoicing this week after quality watchdogs vowed to cut more red tape by abandoning routine subject-level...
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Oil patent tug of war heads for appeal
Southampton University is to appeal against a ruling that took ownership of a crucial patent away from one of its most promising spin-off companies. In a move that a leading intellectual property...
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Principals spurn top-ups
Scotland's university principals show no sign of calling for top-up fees north of the border despite some fears that increased English fees could bolster budgets there and eventually threaten...
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College clans unite against the old enemy
Are Scotland's emerging cross-university groupings of researchers a revival of the Braveheart spirit? Roger McClure, chief executive of the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council, was only half-...
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Union attacks plan to deter 'fee refugees'
Plans announced by Scottish ministers to raise general fee levels for students in Scotland and charge an extra levy for medical courses have prompted accusations that they are taking the first steps...
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Fear of state meddling after grant board axed
The ߣߣÊÓƵn Government appears intent on influencing the type of research undertaken in universities after deciding to abolish the governing board of the ߣߣÊÓƵn Research Council. The move has...
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Michigan may join auction for Unabomber's papers
The University of Michigan is considering whether to bid for the papers and personal effects of the Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski, which are being auctioned on court orders to help pay restitution to...
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Relief as jobs-for-life rejig stalls
Radical reforms of the national employment conditions for university lecturers and researchers working in Italy, scheduled to become law by now, have become bogged down in parliament. Approval will...
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Cash hope for unpaid staff
Academics at the University of Buenos Aires who are working without pay will benefit from a government promise to raise the university budget. Daniel Filmus, Argentina's Education Minister, agreed to...
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Good loses last-ditch appeal over expulsion
Kenneth Good, the ߣߣÊÓƵn political scientist at the University of Botswana expelled on the orders of President Festus Mogae after questioning the way the head of state's successor was to be...