A post-Blair generation?
Student survey shows a sea change The typical early 21st-century undergraduate is likely to be a Liberal Democrat-voting, Sun -reading party animal who works part time in a shop and aspires to a...
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London Met exam marks to go out without external validation
London Metropolitan University plans to give some students their exam results this summer without having the standards checked by external examiners, The Times Higher has learnt. The move, which has...
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Next week
American idols As the US presidential candidates polish their lines, Paul Krugman gives his view on American power Also Admissions uncovered: testing times as universities set their own entrance...
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UKeU creditors settle
Institutions owed money by the failed UKe-university will recoup less than 20 per cent of their debt under the creditors' agreement reached last week, the Higher Education Funding Council for England...
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Further reach for NUS
The National Union of Students has pledged to give a stronger voice to its almost 4 million members in further education colleges. The campaign is the first mounted by Kat Fletcher, the new NUS...
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RAE seeks panel chairs
Fifteen "exceptional" academics are being sought to serve as panel chairs for the next research assessment exercise. Each chair will lead the work of ten main panel members. Applications are invited...
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No perks for scientists
Jim Wallace, Scotland's Lifelong Learning Minister, has ruled out paying science graduates larger salaries or writing off their student debts to attract them into teaching. He rejected the call from...
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Welsh low on agenda
Higher education in Wales is not taking the Welsh language seriously and is putting its survival at risk, Richard Wyn Jones, director of the Institute of Welsh Politics at the University of Wales,...
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Lane's Singapore fling
Internationally renowned cancer researcher Sir David Lane will take a two-year sabbatical from Dundee University to head the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Singapore. Sir David said the...
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Zionism thesis stirs up a storm
Reverend Stephen Sizer may have expected that his controversial thesis on Christianity's role in the Middle East conflict would cause a few ripples. But the Church of England vicar could hardly have...
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Imperial's breakaway brings £2 bounty
Imperial College London's decision to break away from national pay bargaining has proven to be a "a spectacular flop", the main union for academics claimed this week, writes Phil Baty. Imperial...
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Local pay plan sparks boycott call
Nottingham University is facing a global academic boycott in time for freshers' week next month in protest over its plans to introduce local pay arrangements for non-academic staff. Sally Hunt,...
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Anglia v-c to revamp brand
East Anglia is waking up and shaking up its provision for local learners A brand revamp - but not a name change - is on the cards for Anglia Polytechnic University as part of its new vice-chancellor'...
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Peterborough wins cash in effort to change status
East Anglia is waking up and shaking up its provision for local learners Peterborough Regional College has taken the first step towards achieving university status by securing funding to expand its...
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Liberal-arts education impresses in its scope
Laura Spence advocates undergraduate study in the US as rising numbers of sixthform students consider turning their backs on universities in the UK Wary of the media spotlight and guarded about her...