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 "...
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Fear over legality of complaint watchdog
The student complaints ombudsman, which opens for business next week, could breach human rights laws, experts have warned. University law professors and campaigners said this week that the scheme to...
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Face to face
Richard Harries, the bishop of Oxford, and Lewis Wolpert, professor of biology as applied to medicine at University College London, locked horns last week during a debate on whether religion should...
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Axe falls on Swansea departments
Swansea University's governing council has voted to go ahead with plans to close three departments and axe undergraduate teaching in another. Governors voted three to one, at a council meeting on...
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UCL envisages study quarter
University College London hopes to establish a university quarter in the capital, creating a largely traffic-free oasis around the Bloomsbury area. A coherent urban campus shared by the Bloomsbury...
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Former minister voices fee concerns
Less popular universities that cannot charge high top-up fees should be subsidised by the state, according to Tessa Blackstone, the former higher education minister who was appointed vice-chancellor...
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Failed mergers a Welsh 'tragedy'
It is a "tragedy" that Welsh higher education is missing out on millions of pounds of extra funding because the sector is failing to meet merger targets set by the principality's assembly, according...
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AHRB keen to stay in picture
Arts and humanities must not be left behind in the government's new vision for science, the body responsible for research in these areas said this week. The least controversial aspect of the higher...
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Budget boost may mask cuts
Fears were growing in the science community this week that a £200 million boost for clinical research might lead to cuts in other areas of research. Following the surprise budget announcement last...
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Royal Society warns of UK quality deficit
Basic research in Europe is lagging significantly behind the US in terms of quality and impact, a Royal Society report has warned, writes Anna Fazackerley. The report, published this week, says there...
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Report shows power of sport
Universities and colleges are getting non-traditional students into higher education as well as improving the health of the nation with an annual Pounds 73 million investment in sport, according to...
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Windies take note
With England's win this week in the Second Test in Trinidad, the West Indian cricket team might consider taking advice from a fourth-year sport and exercise science student at Napier University....