Murder makes a new foe
Crime writer Ian Rankin was first on the scene of a gruesome double murder at Abertay Dundee University when he opened its "scenes-of-crime" house, writes Olga Wojtas. The mystery was quickly solved...
Search
-
-
Scots plan collaborative RAE bids
Scottish universities could make joint bids to the next research assessment exercise, under radical plans for collaborative centres for advanced research. Ministers north of the border have distanced...
-
King's to cut life sciences
King's College London is to axe much of its life sciences provision, dealing another blow to science at the college. The THES has discovered that King's intends to reduce life sciences teaching and...
-
Call for urgent review of UK ethics training
An urgent review of the ethical training received by British medical students is needed to identify those schools that are failing to take the subject seriously. The British Medical Association has...
-
Jihad key to healing terror rift
Academics should be doing more to smooth relations between Muslim countries and the West by educating politicians and the public about jihad, according to a senior historian. Richard Bonney, director...
-
Medway campus plan
Plans for a new university campus at Chatham Maritime were submitted to Medway Council this week. The Universities at Medway project - a partnership between the University of Kent, Greenwich...
-
Joint art centre mooted
Kingston University and the Wimbledon School of Art plan to establish a joint Centre for Art and Design but stop short of a merger. Peter Scott, the vice-chancellor of Kingston, and Rod Bugg, the...
-
First access faculty
Plymouth University has increased its reach in the Southwest with the launch of a new faculty dedicated to widening participation. Plymouth, already the biggest university in the Southwest, formally...
-
Horses for courses
Edinburgh University is to launch the first postgraduate degree in equine science run by a university veterinary school. The MSc, which will begin next autumn, is aimed at students with first degrees...
-
Dyke is York chancellor
BBC director-general Greg Dyke will become York University's chancellor next summer. Since graduating in 1974 with a degree in politics, after being accepted as a mature student with one grade E A...
-
Poisonous programmes
It has been labelled chewing gum for the eyes, the drug of the nation, an emanation of mankind's vacuity, but what have been television's most tasteless, mind-numbing and vacuous hours? The THES is...
-
NI party leader returns to Ulster professorship
The leader of a Northern Ireland political party returned to her old job at Ulster University this week as the precarious peace process again hit the the buffers. Monica McWilliams, head of the Women...
-
Derby course plans shelved
Derby University has shelved plans to launch 40 foundation degree courses amid claims that a chronic lack of money could sink the new qualification and the government's higher education expansion...
-
Tough job market forces up grades
Germany's economic crisis is encouraging grade inflation as students demand good grades to help them compete in a tough job market. Professors say they feel under pressure to award inflated grades -...
-
For-profit saviour for flagging system
A group of entrepreneurs is aiming to revive Germany's flagging higher education system by establishing a private university to be run as a profit-making business. Businessman Peter Pedersen is...