AUT attacks statute changes
It may become easier to sack lecturers following Privy Council approval of plans to change the constitution of old universities, the Association of University Teachers claimed this week. The plans...
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Cash crisis prompts fears of FE staff cuts
A wave of redundancies is looming in English further education colleges as they face a funding crisis to rival that in schools, lecturers' union leaders and politicians have warned. Strike action...
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Harry Potter and the chamber of gender secrets
A little known 18th-century German writer of fairy tales who inspired Sir Walter Scott can be seen as a precursor of J. K. Rowling, a Glasgow University academic believes. German expert Laura Martin...
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Scotland 'must pool resources'
Scotland's universities must pool academic and financial resources to remain competitive against wealthier institutions south of the border, the principal of St Andrews University Brian Lang warned...
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Shows leave students in debt
Students in creative subjects are suffering financial stress to fund end-of-year degree shows that aim to secure them commissions and jobs. Institutions provide varying levels of support for the...
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Dance funds 'lost' to sociology
A prominent dance academic has accused sociologists and anthropologists of creaming off research funding in his discipline, making it harder for "true artists" to find grants. In a paper presented to...
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Car park quarrel
The subject said to be the greatest cause of angst has produced a new row at Cardiff University, which has been accused of introducing a "discriminatory" system of car-parking that favours professors...
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Science strategy calls for £3bn investment
The government's strategic plan for funding the large facilities essential for "big science" will require an investment of £3 billion over the next decade or so. The figure, from the Office of...
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Nanotech 'won't suffer GM fate'
The government is determined to prevent nanotechnology becoming a media scare story to rival that of genetic modification, science minister David Sainsbury has told The THES. Lord Sainsbury spoke out...
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Findings: Dissection was soul-searching
Leonardo da Vinci's work on human anatomy has been greatly misunderstood, according to new research. He cut up cadavers not only better to understand how the body works but also to search for the...
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How to heal brake squeal
From Porsche 911s to ageing Minis, no car is immune to the irritation of squeaky brakes, but now US engineers may have come up with a low-cost solution, writes Natasha Gilbert. Engineers at the...
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Bosnia lays its bones to rest
Slowly, precisely, gently, Laura Yazedjian lays the earthy, off-white bones out on the cold steel table, trying to complete a jigsaw puzzle. This is no innocent pastime: the pieces of the puzzle are...
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Angry medic doles out top marks to all
A medical professor at Bari University in southern Italy has given all his students top marks in their examinations in a protest against the favouritism endemic in Italian medical schools. Angered by...
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Protestmakes splash
Eight archaeologists last week plunged into the Seine from a bridge in Paris in a mock mass suicide to protest against reforms they claim will endanger archaeological research and destroy their...
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Qatar's Iraq gesture challenges US grip
A tiny Gulf state is to challenge US universities' domination of the rebuilding of Iraqi higher education. Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Abdullah Al-Misnad, first lady of Qatar and Unesco's special envoy...