Societies fight for rent-free rights
Five learned societies may go to court over a demand to pay rent on government-owned offices that have been rent-free for more than 125 years. The societies are seeking legal advice on the strength...
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Red tape makes overseas scholars feel like 'prisoners' in UK
Many overseas students feel like "prisoners" in the UK as ÌÇÐÄVlog Office red tape leaves them without a passport for up to a year, MPs and student groups have said. Despite the streamlining of visa...
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Academic calls for withdrawal of health committee criticism
The academic at the centre of an increasingly personalised debate on the role of private finance in the National Health Service has rebutted criticisms from a committee of MPs. Allyson Pollock, head...
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Pensions crisis hits student unions
Student unions could risk financial ruin as they try to prevent the collapse of their £22 million pension scheme. The Students Union Superannuation Scheme has assets of only 50 per cent of its £46...
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No vroom for sectarianism
Northern Ireland's subculture of "outlaw bikers" has prevented many youngsters from joining sectarian and paramilitary groups, an Ulster University academic has found. Harley-riding Paul Moore, a...
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Analysis: Dynamic sector demands respect
An industry worth £35 billion a year 'is being neglected'. Alan Thomson reports Higher education is a £35 billion-a-year Cinderella industry underappreciated by the government, according to a new...
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Campus life reinforced class divides
Higher education may have reinforced socioeconomic class divides for most of the 1970s and 1980s, writes Alan Thomson. A study by the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics...
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Whistleblowers: Plagiarism scandal returns to haunt v-c
The head of one of Australia's leading academic institutions, Monash University, admitted to "a serious violation of scholarly standards" during the early research that launched his distinguished...
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Union exposes despair of hard-up students
The financial plight of the UK's students has been laid bare in thousands of letters sent to prime minister Tony Blair. More than 3,000 letters handed into Downing Street in February have been...
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Manchester admits 'sexism and hostility'
An internal review of Manchester University's department of English and American studies has concluded that it is "dysfunctional" and racked by hostility, sexism, bullying and harassment. The damning...
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Industry refuses to cough up for lab
Oxford University will open its £60 million Chemical Research Laboratory today with almost no funding from UK industry. Graham Richards, chairman of chemistry, is expected to be highly critical of...
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Society accused of stalling funding
The Royal Society was recalled by MPs this week to explain events leading up to the resignation of Bridget Ogilivie from the Committee on the Public Understanding of Science. The House of Commons...
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Bursa
Turkey's Uludag University theology department has published a book on Satanism after a spate of suicides by Turkish youths who were linked to devil worship.
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Space woman in new orbit
French premier Jean-Pierre Raffarin has enlisted a female former astronaut as minister for research and new technologies in his new government. Claudie Haigneré, 45, has been on board two space...
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IoE may abandon teacher training
One of Britain's top teacher education centres is considering abandoning training because it is no longer cost-effective. This would deal a blow to the government's drive to ease the teacher...