Non-academic posts dominated by female staff
Women make up almost two thirds of professional, administrative and support staff in English universities, according to the first snapshot of non-academic employees in the sector, writes Tom...
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Lincoln v-c has 2020 vision of a great city
David Chiddick, Lincoln University's vice-chancellor, is on a mission to help Lincoln realise its potential as "one of the world's great small cities" and safeguard the region's future. Professor...
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Boycott staff face 'punitive' levies
Lecturers who took part in an industrial dispute at London Metropolitan University have been told they will lose up to 80 per cent of their salaries for more than two months. The news came as a 15-...
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Oxford set to reveal true exam outcomes
Oxford colleges are preparing to publish their students' examination results for the first time in a bid to correct "inaccuracies" in an unofficial annual league table. The number of students...
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Teacher trainees opt to learn on job
Universities are losing thousands of potential trainee teachers to employment-based teacher-training schemes, a report suggests. Teaching students are being lured away from universities by in-school...
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Grid takes dig into the future
The Silchester Roman Town archaeological dig near Reading seems an unlikely spot for a high-tech computing project. But plans by Reading University academics to create a virtual research environment...
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Uwic and Newport's merger talks collapse
The future of higher education in southeast Wales was in question this week as a second effort by the University of Wales Institute Cardiff to merge with one of its neighbours collapsed. Governors at...
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Ideals get the chop, quietly
A US university president who at one time insisted that she supported the right of a controversial speaker to appear at a campus event has quietly cut the funding of the initiative that issued the...
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US may curb lab access
Foreign students in the US could be barred from using some types of laboratory equipment or even setting foot in certain parts of research laboratories if two US government proposals aimed at...
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Focus on FP7 plan
The European Commission will continue to draw up detailed plans for a Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) on research despite the failure of last month's European Union summit to agree on a budget,...
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Historians slate PM over 'debt to Raj' speech
Indian academics have attacked the Prime Minister for rewriting history by publicly acknowledging the "beneficial consequences" of the Raj. For 57 years, Indian history textbooks have portrayed the...
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Lecturer forced to leave Belarus
US academic Terry Boesch describes hearing the news that his Belarusian visa had been withdrawn after two years of teaching at the Belarus State University in Minsk as "like having to attend my own...
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Spain urged to root out abuse and favouritism in academe
An academic has called for an overhaul of the Spanish university system because its "obsolete structure" has fostered "a culture of harassment, inbreeding and corruption". Rosa Peñasco, professor of...
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V-cs hail low rate of attrition
Fewer than one in seven ߣߣÊÓƵn university students drop out before completing their courses, according to a study by the ߣߣÊÓƵn Council for Educational Research. The researchers followed...
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A wiki way to rate work and spread scholarship
Use the web and open-source ideals to evaluate, improve and publicise research, suggests Geoff Mulgan Over the next 12 months, the UK's academic community will need to rethink how it assesses itself...