Libraries enjoy growth
The number of staff in higher education libraries has continued to rise in contrast to public libraries, according to new figures from the Library and Information Statistics Unit based at...
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Spin-off finds investor
Technology commercialisation company BTG will invest in Senexis, a biotechnology company that will develop treatments for ageing-related diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Huntington's....
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TUC sponsors chair
The first TUC-sponsored chair has been taken up at Cardiff University. David Walters has become the TUC chair of the working environment, thanks to a three-year renewable partnership agreement...
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Edinburgh demolition
Demolition of Edinburgh University's School of Informatics, devastated in a fire before Christmas, has begun. The department, where about 200 people were based, has moved to another building.
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Whistleblowers: Review to make Pimlott 'more accountable'
A review team has called for a new tier of senior managers at Goldsmiths College after complaints that the management style of warden Ben Pimlott is "autocratic". The team, set up last year following...
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Canny flag-waver for desktop democracy
How do we get people interested in democracy again? That's the question exercising the world's first professor of e-governance, Ann Macintosh, director of Napier University's International...
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Review sparks youth bias fear
Mature students fear the government's forthcoming review of student finance could drive tens of thousands of older learners away from higher education. As education secretary Charles Clarke gave his...
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Go online to take off weight
Desperate to shed the kilos piled on over Christmas? Round-the-clock help will soon be available from the University of Leeds, where researchers are setting up an interactive website. The nutrition...
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Analysis: The great fee debate
Tony Blair, prime minister "Are we to have a flat fee for all universities, or will there be a variable fee, with different universities charging different fees? "Secondly, if we have a variable fee...
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Analysis: How deep must students dig?
In the second of our series on what the government must address in its upcoming strategy paper, Alison Goddard considers the case for top-up and differential fees. Despite prime minister Tony Blair's...
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Analysis: The price of study in the land of opportunity and in the land down under
United States Halfway through the academic year, and days before students were to leave for the winter holidays, public universities in California announced a 10 to 15 per cent increase in tuition...
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Brussels
European Union officials are drafting a policy paper urging EU institutions and member states to improve conditions for European researchers to help keep them in Europe. The European Commission will...
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Canberra
European Union and ߣߣÊÓƵn university students will be able to study in each others' countries through a joint masters pilot project involving four ߣߣÊÓƵn and four European institutions.
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Slow Finns seek swifter degree path
Finnish school-leavers will get a faster track to university entry if the ministry of education adopts a series of recommended reforms. Just 19 per cent of first-year university students come...
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Study finds little reality in English horror stories
A new survey has dispelled the myth that English-taught degree courses in countries where English is a second language are dogged by poor language skills among students and professors. The Brussels-...