Teaching: on the front line
What is your experience of teaching? Pat Leon asks teachers how they manage. Name : Jerry Wellington Age : 54 Job : Professor in the School of Education, Sheffield University. Salary : About £42,000...
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Students forsake post-92 sector
New universities have suffered a large drop in student numbers in the past five years, the extent of which is revealed by data published today by The Times Higher . In contrast, student numbers have...
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V-cs: surplus puts false gloss on university finances
Vice-chancellors have warned that new figures showing an improvement in higher education's finances mask the reality of a continuing cash crisis. Figures released by the Higher Education Statistics...
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AUT to fight on alone in the battle for a better pay deal
Phil Baty looks at how AUT action over the offer on salaries is affecting union members and their students The Association of University Teachers will make a solitary stand in its bid for a better...
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Cash cuts hit Welsh links with business
Funding for the economic and social activities of Welsh universities, including links with businesses, is to be cut in real terms this year despite concerns that the "third mission" budget is already...
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£50m spin-off set to float
Southampton University is to float a major spin-off company this week. The value of Offshore Hydrocarbon Mapping Limited has been estimated at just under £50 million. A spokesperson for Southampton...
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Out with ye olde classics?
Will to Wonka, English is thriving but it isn't all rosy, says Claire Sanders "Under the hot blue sky I walked with my backpack on, on through town, on until I reached the entrance to the station. I...
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'Publishers put our scripts to the top of the pile'
Bath Spa University College runs some of the most successful creative writing courses in the country, at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. As well as a taught MA, which attracts about 40...
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It's very evolved of us to ape a yawn
It might be the bane of the dreary lecture theatre, but research has revealed that the contagious yawn could be a sign of evolution's highest mental states. Psychologists have found a strong...
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Colleges may face claims of fee-fixing
Colleges and universities that collaborate on setting top-up fees for joint courses could open themselves up to legal challenges from students and to fines under competition law, college leaders have...
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Will students fly off to flee fees?
Only a handful of UK students take the opportunities opened up by budget airlines and the wider availability of English-taught subjects to take an undergraduate course in the near-Continent. But,...
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Pick 'n' mix with high standards
English-taught courses are widely available and very accessible in Sweden. Higher education is of a high standard, very flexible and, most important, free. Contrary to popular belief, the cost of...
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Sweden: Courses in English
Only Jennifer Costelloe's Sheffield University sweater and accent betray her English origins. Ms Costelloe, 20, is spending one semester in the English department at Stockholm University. "I went to...
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Eire: cutbacks a drawback
Matthew Neuberger, 22, is enjoying his social life in Dublin and his study at Trinity College, by far the most popular college for overseas students. He has no Irish connections, yet he has felt very...
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Medicine and law big pullers
Students from the UK made up less than 3 per cent of 60,000 applications for Ireland's seven universities and 37 other higher education institutions received last year by the Central Applications...