Cambridge seeks top cancer trio
Cambridge University is looking to recruit three new professors of cancer research. The appointments are part of a multimillion-pound drive to establish a world-class centre of excellence to be based...
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Charities fume over tobacco funding
Vice-chancellors are at loggerheads with cancer research chiefs after standing by Nottingham University's decision to accept funding from the British American Tobacco company. Gordon McVie, director...
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Imperial rapped over handling of HIV
Imperial College has pleaded guilty to breaching health and safety regulations for handling the HIV virus in an unsafe laboratory, writes Phil Baty. The London University college could face an...
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LibDem manifesto promises abolition of tuition fees
The Liberal Democrats this week set out their general election stall with a renewed pledge to abolish undergraduate tuition fees. The anti-fees policy was reaffirmed as a manifesto priority in an...
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Smoke allergy student loses out
A self-taught mathematics student claims his hopes of becoming an academic have been dashed because Leicester University chiefs refused to allow for his allergy to cigarette smoke. Julian Babik, 32,...
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Targets prompt fund for training
A £6 million package to support the training and careers of health professionals has been announced by the government. Meeting the Challenge: A Strategy for the Allied Health Professions sets out how...
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UCL 'gobsmacked' by grants sweep
University College London scooped a third of the grants announced in the latest round of Joint Infrastructure Fund awards. Of the 28 successful research applications to share the £125 million, nine...
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Union motion to abandon ILT
The Association of University Teachers is set to withdraw cooperation with the Institute for Learning and Teaching and launch an alternative. A motion to be put to the AUT's winter council next week...
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On the march to fight tuition fees
Parents feel so strongly about their children's higher education that they have started carrying placards on protest marches. At the National Union of Students' demo in London last month, mothers...
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Inflation busting boost for Scotland
Core funding for Scotland's higher education institutions will rise next year by 3.5 per cent, 1 per cent higher than the government's inflation assumption. The Scottish Higher Education Funding...
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Prince is given special favour
An associate college of Oxford University has admitted that the Crown Prince of Brunei received special treatment during the two years he studied at Oxford. The Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies said...
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Welsh to conduct review into student support
The Welsh Assembly is to conduct a Cubie-style review into student support alongside its wider Dearing-style inquiry into Welsh higher education. Advisers have urged the assembly to remove student...
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Whistleblowers: LJMU initiates inquiry
Michael Brown, new vice-chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University, is clearly not happy with what he has found in some key areas. He is trying to fulfil his pledge to meet all staff in all...
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In the news: Richard Wiseman
Richard Wiseman, reader in the public understanding of psychology at the University of Hertfordshire, is on a mission to promote scepticism. His mammoth telepathy experiment in London yesterday,...