Ex-BBC man becomes Culture Online head
The Culture Department has appointed the UK's first director of Culture Online, charged with increasing digital access to the UK's heritage. Jonathan Drori, managing director of Thoughtsmith...
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17th-century walls were well dressed
Seventeenth-century builders were not keen on washing their dirty linen in public - they hid it in the walls of houses instead. Now the Textile Conservation Centre at the University of Southampton is...
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Stem-cell exile raises hopes
Just over a year ago, Roger Pedersen moved into his new office on the edge of Cambridge. The arrival of another scientist amid the sprawl of laboratories on the Addenbrooke's site would not normally...
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Restructured Hefce appoints funding tsars
Directors were appointed at the Higher Education Funding Council for England this week as the organisation restructured itself in line with its strategic plan, writes Alison Goddard. The directors...
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Universities dig in for showdown over targets
Vice-chancellors are poised to raise the tension over funding and student expansion by demanding to know why higher education is being kept in the dark by the government on both issues. Top of the...
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Whistleblowers: UCE recovers salary from lecturer who lied
The University of Central England has recovered several thousand pounds wrongly paid to former lecturer Elizabeth Hall after an investigation by The THES found that she had lied to overturn her...
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Institute aims to be first specialist arts university
Art and design academics have encouraged the London Institute to bid to become Britain's first specialist arts university. Governors of the institute will meet in October to discuss the future...
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Tories try to push their wares at fresher fairs
The Conservatives will kick off the new academic year with a campaign to capture the hearts and minds of a new generation of students. The party is planning a high-profile presence at freshers' fairs...
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PGCE 'on the brink'
Many of Britain's best teacher training institutions are "teetering on the brink" of dropping the subject, according to university administrators. The cost of running PGCE courses has risen so much...
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Colleges' declining fortunesthreaten participation goal
The government's 50 per cent participation target for higher education is in jeopardy because of a funding crisis in further education, lecturers' union leaders claimed this week, writes Tony Tysome...
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Sexism in science is targeted
Universities and science policy-makers have been told they must crack "the two-body problem" to ensure the future of physics research. Doing so would do much to help women who want careers in science...
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Update: 13:05
Failure to learn from foot-and-mouth legacy The government has failed to learn lessons from last year's outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, according to the report of an independent inquiry chaired...
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Why I... recommend letting the television cameras in
Seeing life in an Oxford college on television normally means viewing it in fictional form, but from 9pm on Sunday, viewers will be able to see the real thing for the first time on Channel 4. College...
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Policy does not add up
What maths/science 'consumers', aka school pupils, need are the basic tools, says Tony Gardiner. Given that maths and science in English schools are patently failing to deliver at age 18, there is...
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Scientific credit where it's due
J. Doyne Farmer disputes the integrity of a fellow academic's bestseller. Although Steven Wolfram's recent book, A New Kind of Science , has received an unusual level of attention in the popular...