'Staff are not costly luxury,' say Scots
The Association of University Teachers Scotland has praised moves to improve "people management" in higher education, which it hopes will include a better deal for contract researchers, writes Olga...
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AoC: don't play down our role
Further and higher education funding chiefs need to rethink proposals for cross-sector collaboration if they want to widen participation, college heads have said. Plans to create new regional...
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London lecturers are 'undervalued'
London's lecturers are worse off than the school teachers who went on strike last week over their London allowance, the Association of University Teachers said, writes Phil Baty. At a picket of the...
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Bid to base RAE on peer review
The research assessment exercise should be replaced with a biennial peer review conducted by all university departments to produce ranked lists for each subject area, according to a proposal by Roger...
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Police raid at expert's home
An academic criminologist whose expert legal testimony helped to expose flaws in child sex-abuse investigations and overturn convictions has had his office and home raided by police in an...
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Filter will root out plagiarism
Students may be required to put coursework through an electronic plagiarism filter when an online detection system is launched in September. It will be part of a national plagiarism advisory service...
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Findings: Big-drinking small birds
Hummingbirds are high-maintenance creatures, writes Caroline Davis. They are one of the smallest warm-blooded vertebrates and their heart rate is about 1,260 beats a minute, their wings can beat as...
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Findings: Flesh on the genomic bones
Scientists have drawn up one of the most detailed inventories yet of the proteins associated with a single type of human cell, writes Steve Farrar. A team at Oxford University has picked out at least...
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Program races past human translators
A spin-off company formed by a language expert at Heriot-Watt University has created an automated translation system that aims to meet the software industry's need for high-speed, high-quality...
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Oz shows how to cope with students
A team of British and Dutch educationists today finished a week's whistle-stop inspection tour of 14 Australian universities aimed at gleaning information on how to use computers more flexibly to...
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Cutting Edge: The key to artificial vision is staring us in the face
If you want to know how a locust avoids high-speed collisions, take it to a movie. Roger Santer reports. Animals' visual systems are incredibly good at extracting useful information from a very...
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LSC's team confronts rising fraud
The Learning and Skills Council is clamping down on fraud that could cost the taxpayer millions of pounds as cases emerge at the rate of four a month. Special investigators are probing a growing...
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Hodge's row with FE rolls on
The spat between ministers and college heads over further education standards rolled on this week, with both sides trading blows. In a letter to college principals and the Association of Colleges,...
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Shefc formula raises grants
The Scottish ÌÇÐÄVlog Funding Council has made its allocations more selective in the wake of the research assessment exercise, but not as selective as many institutions feared. It pledged to...
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Getting research into business
Helping vice-chancellors and policy-makers to get the most out of the creative capital in universities is the aim of a guide launched this week. Managing Intellectual Property is a joint venture...