FE delays may yield cut-price degrees
Students could get a cut-price degree by following a university-validated course at a further education college, it was claimed this week. Sir Martin Harris, director of the Office for Fair Access,...
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Holding steady v increasing income
Although Farnborough College has 1,100 higher education students and offers a wide range of degree, foundation degree and even masters courses, it has decided not to submit an access agreement and...
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Cambridge gets biggest Hefce grant
Cambridge University has emerged as the biggest winner in a £1.4 billion capital funding handout announced this week by the Higher Education Funding Council for England. The allocations will help...
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Chelsea takes over Tate to celebrate move
Chelsea College of Art and Design students will cosy up to their new neighbours tomorrow night when they curate the "Late at Tate Britain" event and play host to a speed-dating session in the gallery...
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Cash to combat intimidation
Oxford University will get financial support from the Government to ensure that its controversial animal research facility goes ahead despite rising security costs, Lord Sainsbury, the Science...
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Desperate contract staff work for no pay
Scores of academics are working for free in UK universities as they desperately attempt to keep one toe on the research career ladder, it has emerged. A trail of insecurity, financial problems and...
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Anointed to lead flock to UK study
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Wormwood Scrubs and Tesco have been included on a register of "approved institutions" to advise international students about where to study in the UK. The internet...
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Curl up and dye for sex appeal
It is a growing mystery that has baffled scientists and delighted barbers. But a new hypothesis to explain why human head hair keeps getting longer suggests the haircut itself may be responsible. The...
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Middlesex tops growth league
Middlesex University has topped a list of institutions that have expanded full-time undergraduate numbers, according to an analysis by The Times Higher . Universities that have previously struggled...
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Law admissions test cuts through school and gender bias
The first results from the national admissions test for law show that it does not discriminate against state-school pupils and that men and women do equally well. The Lnat was introduced by eight...
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Science pays its way
The Government can justify supporting expensive science subjects in universities because physics and chemistry graduates will earn more than other graduates over a lifetime and pay more back to the...
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Entrepreneur rounds up movers and shakers for £100m stem-cell plan
The man planning to inject £100 million of mostly private money into the UK's stem-cell research community believes treatments based on the research could be available in about two years. Sir...
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To whinge is human, to be a fellow is divine
Research fellows should try a stint at the coalface, reckons Tim Birkhead Judging from the correspondence that followed a recent Times Higher article about "grumpy old staff", several other readers...
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Demand for interpreters is healthy sign of the times
Graham Turner looks at how to sustain the rise in the number of deaf students Would you go to university if you couldn't hear a word of what the lecturers said? Research in the early 1990s showed...
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Image hell or makeover heaven?
Managers who feel the need to rebrand their institutions should ensure they have enough in their coffers - and then get expert advice, advises Harriet Swain You've had enough of your fuddy-duddy...