Scotland will soon have to justify any funding and policy differences between further and higher education when it comes to widening access, according to Martin Fairbairn, the Scottish Further...
Alan Milburn, secretary of state for health, is to publish a white paper on genetics that is intended to push knowledge of the subject deep into the National Health Service and the rest of government...
Money and merger top the agenda at the AUT conference. Phil Baty reports It is time to "hurt students" in the fight for better pay and conditions, members of the Association of University Teachers...
The AUT has rejected an academic boycott of Israel amid concerns that it would alienate "progressive" Israeli academics who share the union's concerns about the country's human-rights record....
The creation of a single union for more than 110,000 lecturers came a step closer last week as the AUT agreed plans for closer relations with rival lecturers' union Natfhe. Delegates at the annual...
Plans to modernise university statutes and ordinances present a fundamental threat to academics' job security, the AUT has warned. Revised statutes governing employment rights in old universities...
The higher education white paper could widen gender inequalities in universities. A motion from the AUT's annual women's meeting, carried unanimously, said that plans for performance-related pay...
The AUT is to press for a merger of the three main university pension schemes. A motion carried said that the existence of separate schemes for academics in old and new universities was "an...
Conference delegates agreed to withdraw a controversial motion that could have forced the union to oppose the government's widening-participation plans and refuse to cooperate with the planned access...
University spin-offs in southern England may find getting funding a little easier with the launch of two investment networks modelled on a successful Oxford-based company. The two networks, in...
David Kingham's background in hard science does not stop him enjoying the sometimes magical process of seeding business partnerships, writes Tim Greenhalgh. The chief executive of Oxford Innovation...
Psychopaths pack up and move from city to city more often than the average criminal offender, according to a new study, writes Philip Fine. Researcher Sarah Hunter of Simon Fraser University, Canada...
Nineteenth-century musicians stemmed their boredom while rehearsing for Bizet's opera Carmen by making up dirty crosswords, doing sketches of the conductor and calculating their fees, writes Natasha...
ߣߣÊÓƵ's pioneering student-finance programme, which has served as a model for reformers worldwide, is to become a market-based system. The Higher Education Contribution Scheme (Hecs) will be...
Over 80 per cent of African adults in Britain are engaged in formal learning, more than the general British adult population, a survey published this week shows. The analysis of the 2002 Labour Force...