'Cool' campus will use Playstations
A £150 million project to create a new university in South Yorkshire aims to attract 70,000 students with an entertainment-based approach to higher education pioneered in ߣߣÊÓƵ. Supporters of...
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Staff call for delay in merger
Staff at London Guildhall University are disputing the timing of a merger with the University of North London, due on August 1. Twenty-three senior managers have now been appointed to London...
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St Andrews attacked on ethnic pay
St Andrews tops a table released this week highlighting the gulf in pay between ethnic minority and white staff in British universities. Ethnic minority lecturers at St Andrews are paid 29 per cent...
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Fundraisers cross Atlantic to teach tactics to British
University fundraisers are turning to role-play training sessions at American-led "masterclasses" to learn how to woo rich potential benefactors, writes Phil Baty. Two top US professionals are being...
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Angry Chinese boycott arts final degree show
Twenty-two Coventry University graphic design students boycotted their final-year degree show last week and instead issued a long catalogue of grievances. The self-styled Coventry 22, most of them...
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Islamic students shun UK and US
A more global market threatens British dominance in overseas education Britain and the United States have slumped as first choices for study among young people from predominantly Islamic countries, a...
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Migrant tide 'will not be halted'
Britain faces an unstoppable tide of immigration regardless of legislative barriers, an Oxford University academic warned this week, writes Claire Sanders. Steven Vertovec, director of Oxford's new...
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Practical bias sparks alarm
Academics are alarmed by the practical emphasis in the long-awaited curriculum for the new social work degree and by the lack of information about funding. The degree replaces the two-year diploma as...
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British reject patent revamp
Leading UK scientists have rejected the introduction of a grace period during which inventors could disclose aspects of their research before filing for a patent. In the Royal Society's response to...
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Whistleblowers: Staff despair over late pay and lack of library
Staff at Nottingham Trent University's private partner college, the European School of Economics, have resorted to extreme measures in order to get paid. At the London campus of the ESE, staff have...
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Ankara
Up to 150 students at Ankara University's theology faculty failed their exams because a headscarf ban kept them from class.
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UK split over Euro council
Plans for a pan-European research council to help the continent compete with the US for the fruits of future advances have divided leading figures in UK science. Research council chief executives met...
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Foodies in Italy find a tasty way to study
Italians take their food so seriously that they are founding the first university devoted to gastronomy. "Food, eating, are basic to human existence yet gastronomic sciences have never had academic...
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50%? Done that, says top Scot
Prime minister Tony Blair wants 50 per cent of 18 to 30-year-olds in higher education by 2010. Yesterday, Iain Gray, Scotland's minister for enterprise, transport and lifelong learning, revealed that...
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Moscow
Russian higher education is subject to more bribes than any other sector except healthcare, according to Georgiy Saratov, a former aide to President Boris Yeltsin. The number of payments and gifts to...