Appointments
* Ralph Seymour-Jackson, former IT director of Abbey National and head of UK operations at Scottish Provident, has been appointed chief executive of the Student Loans Company. * Richard Tait, former...
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Shake-up is price of 7.7% pay offer
Lecturers have been offered a pay rise of 7.7 per cent over two years if they accept the biggest shake-up in their career structures for 40 years. After more then 28 hours of intensive talks last...
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Pension crisis on cards
University non-teaching staff are more likely to become embroiled in the pensions crisis besetting the private sector than their academic colleagues, according to credit ratings agency Standard &...
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Wary FE unions say yes to deal
Further education employers and union leaders have agreed to recommend a two-year pay deal to address recruitment and retention problems in colleges. Union leaders have accepted an offer of a 3 per...
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Nottingham Trent art professor who organised striptease loses director post
The art professor who invited a former lap-dancer to perform a striptease for his students at Nottingham Trent University has lost his role as the UK's only university artistic director, writes Phil...
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Next week
Labour points Six years of Blair reforms in higher education Explosive relationship How academe turned Theodore Kaczynski into the Unabomber, once America's most-wanted criminal Under oath Sir David...
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Findings: Cure found for sick shoppers
For many people, retail therapy can be a remedial buzz. Until, that is, the spending rush takes hold and shopping becomes an addiction, writes Natasha Gilbert. Now, researchers from Stanford...
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Finding: Sweet treats damage kids
Using food treats to reward children's good behaviour or withholding them to punish bad behaviour may encourage eating habits in adulthood that could lead to obesity, new research reports, writes...
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All Turkish rectors face sack
Turkey's state university rectors all face the sack as part of sweeping legislation being introduced to parliament this month. The reforms will end the autonomy of higher education, in effect...
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Sports car gift leads to arrest of fundraiser
The chief fundraiser for a Florida university has been arrested for using donated money to buy a sports car she says was meant as a gift to the outgoing president. Carla Coleman was charged with...
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Lecturers rue loss of easy life
Brazil's state university lecturers are on strike for the third week running in a dispute with the government over plans to bring in new pension rules. The leftwing government of president Luis...
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Saudi royals set up long-distance deal
George Washington University is in negotiations with the Saudi royal family to provide a customised long-distance education programme to several of its members. The family is reportedly concerned...
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Japan to privatise university sector
The blueprint for privatising Japan's national universities into quasi-independent agencies is shortly to become law. Parliament's upper house could introduce even more administrative and fiscal...
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La Sapienza sting foils exam scam
An undercover police officer enrolled as a law student to play a key role in a year-long investigation into an exams-for-cash racket at Rome's La Sapienza University. So far, 18 people have been...
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Berlin trio caps enrolments
Berlin's universities threatened with growing budget cuts from the broke capital city are making it harder for students to get in, writes Alisa Roth in Berlin. All three Berlin schools - the Free...