American academic tenures in decline
American academics are increasingly ready to forgo the security of tenure in exchange for competitive salaries and research freedom, a Harvard Graduate School of Education survey reveals today. The...
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Taken for a ride
(Photograph) - Taken for a ride: nursing and midwifery students campaigning for a better deal took their protest to the skies when they went on the London Eye at Westminster this week. Unison, the...
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GMC's research fraud backlog
A backlog of research fraud cases, a number of which involve university scientists, has been built up by the General Medical Council. Delays of up to two years are being experienced between the...
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Labour policy poses threat to freedom
The government's disregard for academic freedom has become dangerous and damaging, academics and politicians have warned. Long-standing fears about ministers' attitudes to research intensified this...
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Benefit of sandwich courses
Most sandwich courses do what they are meant to do - they improve a student's chances of finding work after graduation, a study by the University of Central England has found. A higher proportion of...
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Increase pay or lose lecturers, says union
Lecturers' union Natfhe will open negotiations with the Association of Colleges next Thursday for a flat-rate pay increase of Pounds 2,500 for its members in further education colleges. On the same...
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Northwest unis launch representative body
Universities in the Northwest of England have launched an association to ensure that higher education is represented on the regional agenda. Keith Burnley recently took up the post of executive...
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Alumni raise Pounds 7 million for development
Nottingham University alumni have paid Pounds 7 million in personal gifts to help fund bursaries, scholarships, and prizes for less well-off students. Some of the money, which includes individual...
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Business helps Glasgow fund scholarships
Glasgow University is linking up with leading businesses in a scholarship scheme. The Century 21 Club has already attracted a dozen companies, including the Clydesdale Bank, Abbey National Financial...
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Location announced for national centre
The national subject centre in English is to be hosted by Royal Holloway College, the Council for College and University English and the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King's College...
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NUS to open a web of opportunity for unions
The National Union of Students redefined itself further as a consumer rights organisation this week by outlining plans for new electronic services. Every further and higher education student in the...
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MP calls Wellcome board self-serving
Warrington MP Helen Southworth has challenged the Wellcome Trust to justify its advice to government to site the Synchrotron project at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordhsire rather than...
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Marconi gives Pounds 40m to Cambridge
Cambridge University has accepted its largest ever corporate gift - a Pounds 40 million commitment by communications giant Marconi plc to set up a communications research centre. The Marconi...
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Courses offered in football management
Football managers will soon be relegating their sheepskin coats to the bottom of the cupboard in favour of academic gowns, if plans to kick off a diploma in soccer management at Greenwich University...
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Career boost engineered through partnership
Aeronautical engineering students at Glasgow, Loughborough and Southampton universities are having their career prospects boosted through a partnership with a virtual university. BAE Systems, the...