Glasgow offers 24-hour assistance
Glasgow University staff and students caught in off-campus emergencies during activities such as field trips, sporting tours and work experience can now call on 24-hour help from the university....
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Contract concordat needs annual update
Universities should be forced to publish annual summaries of progress in implementing the concordat for contract research staff. That is the recommendation of the research careers initiative, chaired...
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Exchange 'rape victim' may sue St Andrews
St Andrews University claims it is still awaiting "fundamental details" from a former student who claims she was raped while on an exchange course in Odessa, Ukraine. Erin MacLean this week waived...
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Professor tells of 'dirty tricks'
A professor has told an industrial tribunal that there were "dirty tricks" in Edinburgh University's department of social anthropology. Judith Okely, a former member of the department who is now...
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OK for OU to get into medicine
The Council of Heads of Medical Schools has given the Open University the go-ahead to develop proposals for an access course for a degree in medicine. The medical schools at Kings College London, and...
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Dorrell denounces central control
Higher education epitomises the government's desire to impose central control on British society, said former shadow education secretary Stephen Dorrell. Mr Dorrell, who stood down from his shadow...
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Future launched with plans to join NUS race
Conservative undergraduates will fight National Union of Student elections for the first time in years following the launch of the party's new youth wing. The group is a new beginning for up to 5,000...
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Bond issue secures Greenwich future
Greenwich University has secured Pounds 30 million to transform the Royal Naval College through a high-powered international finance deal unique in higher education. The university has banked the...
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Dobson re-opens nurses' wounds
Nurse training is up in the air again following remarks by health secretary Frank Dobson suggesting that entry to the profession will be shifted from an academic route. The Department of Health said...
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Too many first-class degrees, Essex told
Essex University has been awarding too many first-class degrees and it cannot properly justify its claims to "the highest quality, judged by international standards", inspectors have warned....
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Old days were shorter
'Comets are hammering through the inner solar system at a constant rate. This proves that previous suppositions were incorrect' Modern astronomers are using ancient and mediaeval records to map...
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Hairdriers make you forget for a while
Using a hairdrier could damage your short-term memory - but it recovers as soon as the device is switched off, say researchers at the University of Bristol. Alan Preece and his colleagues conducted...
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Drug addiction linked to availability
When cocaine is readily available, people are more likely to become addicts rather than mere drug users, researchers have found. Scientists gave rats access to cocaine. One group had an hour's access...
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Downturn or turned off?
David Blunkett is worried that mature students are being put off by fees. But the decline in acceptances could be down to demography. Natasha Loder reports. A startling decline in the numbers of...
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FEFC acts on complaint
Funding council investigators are examining Whistleblowers' revelations that managers at Matthew Boulton College have contravened the rules of college governance. The Further Education Funding...