Degrees bolster pay
An undergraduate degree adds an average of 25 per cent to earnings, researchers at the University of Warwick have found. Over a full working life, this is an extra £220,000, conclude economists Ian...
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Colleges attack Ofsted
Ofsted uses inadequate methods of assessing the value of educating poorly qualified and disadvantaged students in its inspections of further education colleges, the Association of Colleges told MPs...
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Whistleblowers: College heads criticise AoC selection process
The hunt for a new chief executive of the Association of Colleges was blighted this week by allegations of a potential conflict of interest. The search for candidates for the £120,000-a-year post is...
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Don't be Jack of all trades, become the master of one
Capitalise on strengths and collaborate with others if you want more cash. Alison Goddard reports on the latest funding blueprint The blueprint for the next five years of English higher education was...
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Hodge admits back of envelope planning
Higher education minister Margaret Hodge publicly admitted last week that the decision to designate 70 university teaching departments as centres of excellence by 2006 had not been thought out in...
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Half of HE colleges set sights on university status after rule change
More than half of all higher education colleges are set to bid for a university title, a THES survey has found. Colleges already planning to apply to call themselves a university have been joined by...
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Tree rings save a piece of past
English Heritage has stepped in to save Britain's oldest timber-framed shop, thanks to specialist dating work carried out by a researcher at University College London. The 13th-century structure was...
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Surge in spin-offs fails to bring in the money
Technology transfer activity in universities has increased by 25 per cent in the past year, according to a government survey released this week. UK universities created 248 spin-offs in 2000-01, up...
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Centre to tackle gene advances
An experiment to test journalists' and academics' sensitivity to alcohol was carried out in Exeter last week at the launch of a new centre for thinking about the problems posed by advances in...
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Scots protest at spiralling debts
The average cost of a Scottish degree is £11,284 and rising, according to a national Chain of Debt campaign that culminated in a lobby of the Scottish Parliament last week. Some 4,000 students across...
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Review proves that personal planning helps studies
Students can improve through the use of learning logs, journals, diaries and electronic portfolios, the UK's first review of international literature on personal development planning has concluded....
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Research funders up stakes on quality
Many universities are "blissfully unaware" of key funders' plans to enforce more rigorous research quality assurance standards, research leaders have said. Concerns have been raised about a proposed...
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50 % bullied at Spanish campus
Fifty per cent of lecturers taking part in a study at Spain's Alcal University have been victims of bullying in the past six months. The first study of workplace bullying at a Spanish university...
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Italy's dons 'are sadists'
Italian students tend to drop out of university because of sadism, delusions of omnipotence, narcissism and depression among their professors, according to a forensic scientist. Giancarlo Nivoli,...
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Zimbabwe shuts its doors as lecturers strike for pay rise
The University of Zimbabwe failed to open for the new academic year after lecturers began an indefinite strike for a 50 per cent-plus salary increase. James Mahlaule, president of the university...