RAE workload keeps chemistry stars from lab
Chemistry lecturers have claimed that their discipline may suffer in the 2008 research assessment exercise because so many of the subject's brightest stars will be burdened with work as referees on...
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Funding pledge anxiety
Ministers were warned this week not to renege on a promise to maintain public funding for universities after the Treasury's decision to delay its next spending review. Chancellor Gordon Brown has...
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Next week
Is art the new science? Siân Ede explores how artists are harnessing new knowledge in fields such as genetics to create inspirational works Plus: Inspecting the inspectors - what's next for the QAA?
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Too few family savers
Almost half of parents fail to save money for their children's university education, according to research by the Association of Investment Trust Companies. The research found that while a quarter of...
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Rise for student parents
Students with children will be eligible for a higher grant from September, the Government announced this week. The childcare grant will rise from Pounds 114.75 a week to £148.75 a week for students...
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Now they're talking
Bristol, Nottingham Trent and Manchester universities each won a European Award for Languages this week. Manchester was singled out for its project that helps to link its foreign students with...
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Networking news
Eight further education colleges have joined Leeds Metropolitan University's regional partnership system, expanding what was already the UK's largest post-16 network. The partnership now offers...
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MRC tribute to pioneer
The Medical Research Council paid tribute to Sir Richard Doll, who died this week. Colin Blakemore, the MRC chief executive, said: "His proof of the link between smoking and cancer has done as much...
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Creative changes
The new arts institution to be created next week through the merger of the Kent Institute and the Surrey Institute will be called University College for the Creative Arts at Canterbury, Epsom,...
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Wanted: PhD feedback
The National Postgraduate Committee is conducting a survey in association with The Times Higher on the perceptions and expectations of PhD students. To take part, visit www.npc.org.uk/survey2005 ....
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Improve staying power
A computer system that calculates the risk of students dropping out will be tested in September after research showed the majority of undergraduates who leave a course do so in the first four weeks....
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'Dropping out can be the right thing to do'
Teesside University researcher Diane Nutt was not surprised when her study of student drop-outs found that many had complex reasons for leaving. When she dropped out of a Nottingham Trent University...
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Male arts graduates may never recoup degree cost
Studying for an arts degree in future may cost men more than the lifetime salary gain they will accrue from being a graduate, according to research, writes Paul Hill. A study published this week in...
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Physics leads the field on pay
One in five university physicists earns more than £50,000 a year, an official report on university staffing trends reveals. The study, which looked at the numbers and pay of academics in England over...
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Access to drive a hiring bonanza
Tens of thousands of extra academic and administrative staff will be needed in English universities in the next five years as student numbers continue to grow, a report on staffing trends concludes,...