Quality head in line of fire
Middlesex University has suspended the quality assurance chief at its School of Computing Science amid staff unrest over a "dumbing down" of standards revealed in The Times Higher . The university...
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Stag party
(Photograph) - What's the best way to sell Scotland? Bagpipes and men in kilts? Whisky and deep-fried Mars bars? Scottish institutions can apply to a Challenge Fund for resources to give overseas...
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Swansea sues 'rattled' AUT
Swansea University is to become the first university to take legal action against the Association of University Teachers. It has instructed solicitors and counsel to carry forward a threat to sue the...
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English student contests Scotland's ruling on fees
Scottish legal academics have welcomed the prospect of a court ruling on whether it is discriminatory for English, Welsh and Northern Irish students to pay fees in Scottish institutions, while...
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Fender takes rap for UKeU
A former funding chief this week accepted blame for the failure of the Government's flagship UK e-University project but added that the venture should have been given more time to succeed. Sir Brian...
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They're recruiting again in paradise
Briton heads influx into the University of the West Indies, reports John Kirkaldy The University of the West Indies has just taken on the first British academic at its English languages department in...
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Pasteur head may lose job
The head of France's prestigious Institut Pasteur has put his job on the line amid growing protests from scientists employed at the medical research centre. A vote of confidence in Philippe Kourilsky...
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Chinese flock to join civil service
In the days of China's imperial bureaucracies, there were always more qualified officials than there were positions available - a deliberate policy intended to keep officials in line. Now those days...
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No taste for bella Italia
Italian politicians are concerned that the country's universities have missed out on the Chinese international student market. During a state visit to China, President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi called for...
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Business school sued over 'masters'
Stockholm University School of Business is being sued by an international student who claims he was misled over the status of a business studies course. Tom Smith, a former Washington lobbyist,...
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Holocaust on syllabus at German college
The atrocities of the Holocaust will be taught for the first time in Germany as a compulsory part of the undergraduate syllabus at a private university in Berlin. The Jewish-American Touro College...
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Thirty-somethings are sick of grumpy old staff
A generation gap divides academe. Jim Mills wants more senior members to stop moaning and smell the roses It was all good news as we met at the British Library. Most of us knew one another from...
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Nancy Rothwell
Being summoned as an expert witness is nerve-racking. Especially if the summons comes from the 'committee from hell' I'd never received a summons before. Now I have, though not to a court of law but...
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Looking out for Number 11
National newspapers are revelling in the apparent ego battle between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, the Chancellor. But it seems that senior figures in the higher education world have already decided...
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Aussie rules in the boardroom
Perhaps we could all learn some lessons in successful negotiation from Professor Gilbert. Sources close to the university report that he has been known to start potentially edgy meetings by...