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Tim Gardam has been appointed principal of St Anne's College, Oxford - the first man to hold the post. He will succeed Ruth Deech on September 1, after she leaves to become the first independent...
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AUT pay claims 'misleading'
Union bosses have been forced to retract the statement that they won a 12.2% wage hike. Phil Baty reports Claims by the Association of University Teachers that its industrial action has achieved an...
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Wales is urged to opt for top-ups
Welsh university heads have said they can see "no viable alternative" to introducing top-up fees. The first collective statement from Welsh vice-chancellors on the question of whether they support...
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Next week
Will the bill fall at the second hurdle? Can Labour's left and the Tories see off variable fees? Up-to-the-minute coverage Also Big issue : Obesity on campus - are we doing enough to combat it?...
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Sorting process
Oxford University is planning to set entrance tests for history and English amid concerns that too many students are gaining top grades at A level. The university said this week that an aptitude test...
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Housing benefits
Lecturers' union leaders have welcomed an announcement from John Prescott, the deputy prime minister, that further education lecturers will be included in a two-year, ?700 million scheme to provide...
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Ice-bound pursuits
Two Bangor University scientists are joining an expedition to lock a ship into drifting pack ice in the frozen seas of Antarctica for several months. They will take samples from the ice floe as they...
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Arts initiative axed
Plans to create a national federal university of the arts have been shelved by the UK Arts and Design Institutions' Association. Vaughan Grylls, Ukadia chairman and director of the Kent Institute of...
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Horticultural cash fillip
A centre of excellence for horticultural research has been created at Warwick University, with backing from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Simon Bright, former head of...
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Laboratory of life
Stirling University will next week launch an international observatory on learning regions, which aims to encourage government-led partnerships to improve the quality of people's lives. Stirling...
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It's last orders at Aberdeen
Is time being called on that traditional hub of student life, the union bar? On Saturday, the doors of Aberdeen University student union will close for the last time as a result of plummeting bar...
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Scots access initiative conceals inequalities
Scotland's much-vaunted 50 per cent student participation rate in higher education "disguises deep and entrenched educational inequalities", an expert on lifelong learning has warned, writes Olga...
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Sociology has identity crisis
The Times Higher reports from this week's British Sociological Association meeting Sociology is suffering a damaging identity "crisis", a meeting of the British Sociological Association concluded...
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Sex taboos on agenda
The Times Higher reports from this week's British Sociological Association meeting Is it OK to sleep with your students? was just one of the many thousands of questions posed at this year's British...
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Fighting talk turns web forums into intellectual punch-ups
The Times Higher reports from this week's British Sociological Association meeting A culture of tribal aggression has taken over many web-based communities, leading academics to dub such groups "...