From today's UK papers
Reports say Labour has failed poor students Labour's plans to get more poor students to go to university is failing, two reports by parliament's financial watchdog reveal today. The percentage of...
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Honour the people who count
Once again a university boss is honoured while his loyal auxiliary staff go unnoticed, complains Valerie Atkinson The newspaper placards lauded a local hero: "University chef knighted". Amazing - a...
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Why I... I believe creative writing has re-established the role of the university
In our university we acquire lecturers' body parts and trade these on the open market. Hearts, lungs, livers, eyes. We call this "re-establishment". It is part of a government-approved scheme and...
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Interview success is virtually guaranteed
With first-hand experience of screwing up an interview, Peter Hartley set about developing a PC package to help graduates nail that dream job. As a young, fresh-faced undergraduate, I had delusions...
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Talking turtle with local folk
Protecting the populations of green turtles requires an understanding of the impact of humans on turtles and of turtles on humans, writes Mark Hamann. It took just over 100 years of European...
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The shiny secrets that could loosen the grip of a beastly bacterium
Mass killer 0157:H7 is so deadly it earned a place in the Guinness Book of Records . Geoff Watts reports on research that could turn the tables and make its life more hazardous Though neither...
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Scaling the heights: THES access elite table
Discover who made it to the top and who fell off the precipice in the THES analysis of university access. Top 28 institutions Poor postcodes Drop outs Teaching (score) Research (score) ...
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AUT set to dump plan to accredit lecturers
The Association of University Teachers is likely to abandon its plans for a professional accreditation scheme for lecturers. Consultation on a scheme to rival the Institute for Learning and Teaching...
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Fraudster goes unnoticed
Sunderland University has admitted it failed to discover that a new lecturer had previously been at the centre of a fraud scandal after falsely claiming to be the victim of satanic abuse. Simone...
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Campus freedom the loser in 2001
Academic freedom suffered numerous violations around the globe during 2001, according to the New York-based Human Rights Watch. "Oppressive governments punished academics for exercising their right...
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Red tape over animal research is 'embarrassing'
British researchers are going to the United States to carry out animal experiments to avoid delays caused by public sensitivity and official bureaucracy. Clive Page, of King's College London's...
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Delay spares QAA a review
The Cabinet Office inquiry into university bureaucracy is likely to come too late to affect the shape of the Quality Assurance Agency, writes Phil Baty. A senior QAA source said that a delay by the...
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UK 'poor relation' in academic pay
UK academics are among the poorest in the developed world, according to a study by lecturers' union Natfhe. They earn on average £50,000 a year less in pay and benefits than their counterparts in...
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Science journal deal for library
British Library readers will now have instant access to more than 1,000 Elsevier Science journals. The two organisations have signed a three-year contract allowing readers at St Pancras, and more...
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Whistleblowers: LSE settles in freedom vs contract funding row
The London School of Economics has agreed an out-of-court settlement with a former researcher after a row over his academic freedom and the commercialisation of university research. On the eve of a...