Appointments
• Bradford University vice-chancellor Chris Taylor has been elected president of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. • Sally Neocosmos, chief executive officer of the Higher Education Staff...
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Rebels threaten merger
Members of Manchester University's "parliament" are threatening to scupper the university's £285 million merger with the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology in protest...
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Bristol blunder leads to grade change
It was a case of now you see them, now you don't, when Bristol University posted then promptly removed about 100 degree results, warning students that an administrative blunder meant their degree...
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'Fees must be tied to access'
John Hood, the next vice-chancellor of Oxford University, has said universities must be free to set their own fees but they should do so "responsibly" and with matching access initiatives. In an...
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Rhodes party marred by dispute
The centenary celebrations for the Rhodes Trust, which included Nelson Mandela, Bill Clinton and Tony Blair, were overshadowed this week by complaints from Rhodes scholars that the trust was...
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Next week
State of history The first in a series of subject reviews Cult figure The appeal of The Wicker Man Walter Benjamin Terry Eagleton reviews his Selected Writings Books focus: Travel
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Unions on warpath over v-cs' job plans
Vice-chancellors want to make it harder for academics to climb the career ladder, trade unions claimed this week. Ahead of next week's crunch talks on new pay structures, lecturers' union Natfhe and...
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Today's news
Official warning of another A-level fiasco The education secretary, Charles Clarke, has been warned that the government could face a repeat of last year’s A-level debacle after a parliamentary select...
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Rephrase, replace or remove
Patrick Smith questions the validity of learning outcomes and calls for a more student-sensitive assessment regime. He crane-lifts what appears to be the body of a naked female from the pile hole....
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Fellows: on the front line
Pat Leon asks a winner at this year's National Teaching Fellowships how she manages. Name: Imogen Taylor Age: Mid-50s, but I started late in academia. I've been at Sussex University for two years....
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Alliance to fill gap in online market
A group of top research universities, Universitas 21, has launched an online MBA as a first step to capturing a $111 billion (£66.7 billion) untapped postgraduate market. U21 Global, a partnership...
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EU is urged to adopt Blair way on access
Tony Blair's third-way policies could give Europe a greater opportunity to widen participation in higher education, delegates to the European Access Network conference in Prague heard this week. At...
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Trust to streamline funding
The Wellcome Trust is to cut its research funding by 15 per cent next year following a dramatic fall in the value of its endowment. In his first interview as director of the trust, Mark Walport said...
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BMA highlights race issue
Medical schools must make curriculum changes to help tackle racism in the health service, says the British Medical Association. A BMA report, Racism in the Medical Profession: The Experience of UK...
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Bolton to pull out of national pay deals
The national academic pay system edged closer to collapse this week as it emerged that Bolton Institute is planning to set pay locally and to ignore the national lecturers' contract, writes Phil Baty...