In a slurry to delegate
Alistair Boxall, a pollution researcher at Cranfield University, has strong ideas about academic leadership. Faced with an experiment in which chemicals were to be added to 70,000 litres of pig...
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Super-sensitive
Education secretary Charles Clarke was technologically challenged at the launch of the government's e-learning strategy consultation document at Birkbeck College, London, last week. Lights and sound...
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Why I think we should end apartheid between English and cultural studies
Catherine Belsey, Professor of English at Cardiff University and chair of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory. She will give a plenary lecture at the "English - The Condition of the Subject"...
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Let's keep it simple
Britain needs to roll four research councils into one national body, says David Giachardi Albert Einstein said: "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler." If Einstein...
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Repay £15,000? Nuts to you
Mark McGowan intends to pay his student loan in kind by rolling a peanut across London On September 1, I will start pushing a monkey nut seven miles across London. With my nose. I have just finished...
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12 nations unite to advance stem-cell research
The push to unlock the therapeutic potential of human stem cells has been boosted by an international effort to coordinate research. Twelve top scientific nations, including the UK and US, have...
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Lambert: central controls must go
Universities should be freed from central government management, according to the man charged with seeking industry's views on the running of higher education institutions. Richard Lambert told The...
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Fury over visa extension fee
A government move to charge up to £250 to extend UK student visas has angered overseas student representatives. The UK Council for Overseas Student Affairs, which held its annual conference this week...
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Endowments suffer 'huge hit'
University endowments have fallen in value by 20 per cent in two years, hitting prestigious universities and partly offsetting increased government investment. The first national audit of university...
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US counts costs of plummeting shares
US universities face still deeper budget cuts after endowment values dropped for a third straight year, compounding an existing crisis caused by a decline in government funding and private donations...
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Appointments
Brian Follett, chair of the Arts and Humanities Research Board and professor of zoology at Oxford University, has been named chair to the Teacher Training Agency. Richard Halliwell, former dean of...
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Back bill, Crewe urges red rebels
White paper: Labour rebels warned. Tory unease surfaces. grant threshold raised. The new president of Universities UK has taken on Labour rebels, warning them that if the higher education white paper...
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Party line over fees prompts Tory to quit
An independent education committee set up by the Conservatives to examine policy and practice in schools, colleges and universities has suffered its first resignation. David Dilks, a long-standing...
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Ministers aim to placate critics with move to lift grant threshold
The government has increased the family earnings threshold that will entitle students to the new £1,000 maintenance grant after admitting its original plans would have deprived too many students of...
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Wales accused of top-up retreat
The Welsh Assembly has been accused of bowing to Westminster in a dispute over who should foot the bill if Wales opts out of introducing top-up fees. Education secretary Charles Clarke and Welsh...