Academic 'terrorised' by English PhD numbers
Excessive recruitment to PhD programmes in English is causing a "major social disaster", says Annabel Patterson, a British professor in the English department at Yale University, in the United States...
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GM trials threaten organic research
Researchers investigating organic farming have called for a genetically modified crop trial in Warwickshire to be abandoned after it emerged that it threatens the Henry Doubleday Research Association...
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Dons rebel over onerous review
The Treasury-driven "transparency review" of universities' spending on teaching and research is facing mounting rebellion from lecturers. Local branches of lecturers' union Natfhe are arguing that...
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Fury as less inclusive campuses win extra cash
Universities with poor records at attracting students from state schools will receive extra cash next year despite strong opposition from more inclusive institutions, it was confirmed this week....
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Split in sector is stifling lifelong learning, warns Niace leader
The government is creating a divide between further and higher education that is stifling progress in lifelong learning, an adult education leader said this week. The focus of ministers' post-16...
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Cornwall nets £19m
Higher education in Cornwall has received a boost after the government pledged £19 million to the Combined Universities in Cornwall project. The scheme, run jointly by Exeter and Plymouth...
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Whistleblowers: Hefce reports on Lipa
The extent of management and accountability shortcomings at the " Fame " school, set up by former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney, is revealed this week in a long-awaited audit report by funding chiefs....
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Ulster bid to help with nurse shortfall in Eire
The Republic of Ireland has called in the University of Ulster to train nurse trainers as it faces the first shortage of nurses in its history. The university could find increasing numbers of Irish...
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Don warns of end of academic self-rule
Six hundred years of academic self-rule at Cambridge University will end if it pushes ahead with plans to modernise its management, a don warned last week. Speaking at a Senate House debate on the...
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Residents fear halls are swamping town
Loughborough University has been accused of "swamping" the town with student bedsits, halls and cars. Loughborough residents and planners said the university's plan to accommodate more than 1,000...
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£150m grant will Wellcome research to the modern world
The Wellcome Trust has announced £150 million of grants to help universities modernise their research facilities. The 34 grants were shared between 25 institutions, including £7.9 million for the...
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Unions square up for strike
Employers were due to improve on a 3.3 per cent pay offer in a crunch meeting with the trade unions as The THES went to press this week. But the expected increased offer is unlikely to be good enough...
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Anxious experts survey Silbury
A seismic survey of Silbury Hill is to be carried out to reveal the pits and tunnels that threaten Wiltshire's giant enigmatic neolithic monument. Archaeologists concerned by the prospect of Europe's...
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Don's Diary
Sunday Cars flow over the brow of the hill like Indians heading for General Custer. Visitor numbers for the Eden Project are more than double planned for - as one of the last millennium projects we...
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Giddy about Giddens
A whole new area of academic research has emerged - the study of Anthony Giddens, director of the London School of Economics. This month sees the launch of a third book edited by Christopher Bryant,...