Exit staged
(Photograph) - Exit staged: Why did O. J. Simpson try to run away from the police after his former wife was found murdered? "I just wanted the pain to stop," he explained to a packed debating chamber...
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No credibility in union stargazing
The president of the Association of University Teachers warned delegates at the AUT's annual council meeting yesterday against seeking "flawless ideals" that could never be achieved. Joanna de Groot...
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Over 50s face chop at Notts
Multimillion pound savings are being sought at one of the United Kingdom's most successful universities, which is proposing to worsen its staff-student ratio by offering early retirement to all staff...
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Ministers warned off labs
The Government should reconsider moves to privatise public sector agriculture and plant science laboratories, ministers have been told. A confidential report argues that privatisation could cost more...
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Islands in advert row
Nottingham Trent University is to investigate the marketing and publicity strategy of Southampton Institute, whose courses it validates, after receiving complaints from the Channel Islands education...
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Face the facts: A portrait of the sculptor Marc Quinn by Florian Jaenicke
(Photograph) - Face the facts: A portrait of the sculptor Marc Quinn by Florian Jaenicke, a photography student at the London College of Printing and Distributive Trades. Mr Jaenicke is showing his...
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Clarke degree 'void'
The vice chancellor of Nottingham Trent University has received a solicitor's letter warning him that today's planned conferment of an honorary doctorate on Kenneth Clarke, the Chancellor of the...
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Just write for the scientists
A New York-based psychoanalyst and writer has beaten four British academics to win the Rhone-Poulenc science book prize. Arno Karlen has fuelled the growing debate about whether writers or scientists...
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Charity cash to health falls
Charity funding for medical research has dropped for the first time in ten years, according to figures released by the Association of Medical Research Charities. Nearly Pounds 22 million was wiped...
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Staff disputes hit Anglican colleges
Two Anglican church colleges are embroiled in industrial relations upheavals involving dismissals of senior members of staff. Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education has lost an...
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Cornwall to name site for campus
Cornwall's proposed new university will be designed to support "lifetime learning", Sir Geoffrey Holland, vice chancellor of Exeter University, has promised. Schools, colleges and workplaces...
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Happy returns: For the first time in centuries sheep graze on the green outside Durham cathedral
(Photograph) - Happy returns: For the first time in centuries sheep graze on the green outside Durham cathedral. Above, Paul Stokes and Louise Gidney, of Durham University's archaeology department,...
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Asylum quirk
The Government has promised to review its Asylum and Immigration Bill after vice chancellors raised fears that overseas students and universities would fall foul of legislation barring foreign...
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Union checked
Universities and colleges are to spell out how they have implemented student union reforms. Eric Forth, higher education minister, is checking that the principles of "choice, fairness, democracy,...
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NUS wins private loans deal
The National Union of Students has claimed a victory in securing concessions from two major banks bidding to run privatised loan schemes, writes Alan Thomson. NUS president elect Douglas Trainer said...