Trust to streamline funding
The Wellcome Trust is to cut its research funding by 15 per cent next year following a dramatic fall in the value of its endowment. In his first interview as director of the trust, Mark Walport said...
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BMA highlights race issue
Medical schools must make curriculum changes to help tackle racism in the health service, says the British Medical Association. A BMA report, Racism in the Medical Profession: The Experience of UK...
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Bolton to pull out of national pay deals
The national academic pay system edged closer to collapse this week as it emerged that Bolton Institute is planning to set pay locally and to ignore the national lecturers' contract, writes Phil Baty...
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'Strategic' networking is the key to women's advancement
Female academics must see beyond the "illusion" that individual talent will bring them career success, and start networking and supporting each other in the way that men do, an equal opportunities...
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Whistleblowers: Liverpool professor wins large settlement
Liverpool John Moores University has reversed its decision to sack Lewis Lesley for gross misconduct, after The THES highlighted staff concerns that the disciplinary action was "grotesque and...
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Whistleblowers: Policy broke data act
Bath University has been told to change its procedures for destroying student records after the information commissioner ruled that its policy breached the legally enshrined principles of "fairness...
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Students offer a shoulder to peers under pressure
Oxford University uses student counsellors as part of an innovative peer-support programme to identify those suffering from depression and encourage them to seek help, writes Anna Fazackerley. Elsa...
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Debt leads to sharp rise in cries for help
The human cost of the government's higher education policies is manifesting itself through an increase in student depression rates, university counsellors have warned. According to a survey carried...
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Fees threat to languages
The cost of tuition fees is threatening four-year language degrees at UK universities. From September, Exeter University will for the first time offer three-year language degrees as an alternative to...
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Morris tells Blair not to interfere
Former education secretary Estelle Morris has warned against government interference in education leadership and centralised target-setting without full consultation with the sector. Ms Morris told a...
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Bac plan is death knell for A levels
All existing school and college examinations would be swept away or "re-engineered" under a baccalaureate scheme proposed by academics at the Institute of Education. An English baccalaureate or...
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Science calls for help
Universities have a central role in staving off the impending skills crisis in science and technology, according to research this week from the Engineering and Technology Board. They must reach out...
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Handy book wins prize
Chris McManus, professor of psychology and medical education at University College London, has won the Aventis science writing prize for his book Right Hand, Left Hand. The junior category was won by...
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First female chairs
Oxford has appointed its first female professors of philosophy and theology. Dorothy Edgington, professor of philosophy at Birkbeck College, London, has been appointed to the Waynflete professorship...
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Welsh links to schools
An initiative to link disaffected communities and higher education in Wales was launched today by Welsh Assembly education minister Jane Davidson. First Campus will offer mentoring and learning...