Lecturers reject call to boycott Israelis
The AUT has rejected an academic boycott of Israel amid concerns that it would alienate "progressive" Israeli academics who share the union's concerns about the country's human-rights record....
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Unity motion brings 110,000-strong superunion ever closer
The creation of a single union for more than 110,000 lecturers came a step closer last week as the AUT agreed plans for closer relations with rival lecturers' union Natfhe. Delegates at the annual...
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Reforms threaten jobs
Plans to modernise university statutes and ordinances present a fundamental threat to academics' job security, the AUT has warned. Revised statutes governing employment rights in old universities...
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Women penalised
The higher education white paper could widen gender inequalities in universities. A motion from the AUT's annual women's meeting, carried unanimously, said that plans for performance-related pay...
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Pension pressure
The AUT is to press for a merger of the three main university pension schemes. A motion carried said that the existence of separate schemes for academics in old and new universities was "an...
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Collision averted
Conference delegates agreed to withdraw a controversial motion that could have forced the union to oppose the government's widening-participation plans and refuse to cooperate with the planned access...
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Hopeful innovators mimic Oxford model
University spin-offs in southern England may find getting funding a little easier with the launch of two investment networks modelled on a successful Oxford-based company. The two networks, in...
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Passionate angels work wonders
David Kingham's background in hard science does not stop him enjoying the sometimes magical process of seeding business partnerships, writes Tim Greenhalgh. The chief executive of Oxford Innovation...
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Findings: Psychopaths' itchy feet
Psychopaths pack up and move from city to city more often than the average criminal offender, according to a new study, writes Philip Fine. Researcher Sarah Hunter of Simon Fraser University, Canada...
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Findings: Getting dirty with Carmen
Nineteenth-century musicians stemmed their boredom while rehearsing for Bizet's opera Carmen by making up dirty crosswords, doing sketches of the conductor and calculating their fees, writes Natasha...
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Australia overhaul sets free market
Australia's pioneering student-finance programme, which has served as a model for reformers worldwide, is to become a market-based system. The ÌÇÐÄVlog Contribution Scheme (Hecs) will be...
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Africans lead UK learners
Over 80 per cent of African adults in Britain are engaged in formal learning, more than the general British adult population, a survey published this week shows. The analysis of the 2002 Labour Force...
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Blurred image, sharp vision
Les Choix d'Henri Cartier-Bresson - Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Dangerous. Handle with extreme care
The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language
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A journey from armchair to ice-ridden seas
Voyages of Delusion