How bricks can build confidence
Gwen van der Velden describes how an unusual summer school is helping students who are failing. Mention exams and most students get the jitters. After all, that's when they have to prove their...
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Industry hits out at diluted degree trend
Employers have become so concerned that the widening participation agenda has "watered-down" degrees that one major company is considering recruiting talented school-leavers rather than graduates....
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Accept more money while our staff are underpaid? Never, said v-cs
Vice-chancellors had asked for cuts in their pay rises because they feared angering their underpaid staff, The THES can reveal. In private interviews with economics researchers, several vice-...
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In the news: John McKenzie
The former rector of the London Institute, economist John McKenzie, is the new chairman of Leeds United, the Premier League football club with an £80 million deficit. As well as tackling financial...
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Appointments
David Rhind , vice-chancellor and principal of City University, has been appointed chairman of the Statistics Commission. He has been a member of the commission since its inception in 2000 and will...
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DFES rethinks regulator role
A hasty rethink of the access regulator's role is under way after the government's initial proposals were criticised by senior figures in higher education, including vice-chancellors, college heads...
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'Mismanagement is holding back science'
British science is being held back by deep-rooted mismanagement within the government and its research councils, according to a report published today. The report, commissioned by the centre-right...
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UCL picks Grant as its provost
Malcolm Grant was this week appointed provost of University College London, writes Alison Goddard. Professor Grant, who is pro vice-chancellor of the University of Cambridge, will take up the post on...
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Minister: all to retain research
All universities will have a three-strand mission of teaching, research and knowledge transfer, science minister Lord Sainsbury said this week, writes Caroline Davis. The higher education white paper...
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Lab nets cash for accelerator scheme
Staff at the once beleaguered Daresbury laboratory are celebrating another milestone in securing funding towards a £120 million project that will put the lab at the cutting edge of accelerator...
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Trust enters £40m pact
The Wellcome Trust has announced a £40 million project targeting research into illnesses such as cancer, neurological disorders and malaria. Researchers based at Oxford University will work with...
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V-cs may restrict the access tsar
Vice-chancellors may threaten to designate certain areas as no-go zones for the access regulator if university autonomy is threatened. A draft of Universities UK's response to the white paper on...
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Next week
Pointing to the truth What really happened to Edward II. Life-and-death lessons The law students who defend death-row prisoners. Mammoth task The contested meaning of prehistoric art: Steven Mithen...
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Europe slates UK funding bias
Britain and Europe are split over how best to fund research, with the UK pursuing greater selectivity and the Europeans claiming that this will leave non-research institutions stripped of academic...
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Warwick centre set to rev up engineers
The University of Warwick opened a £70 million automotive research centre on Wednesday, which it hopes will transform the image of UK engineering, writes Anna Fazackerley. The centre will focus on...