Ministers airbrush report
Cabinet ministers used their political muscle to soften a potentially damaging select committee report on university access, it was claimed this week. Members of the education sub-committee claim...
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Bosses join union in plea for cash
Further education college chiefs joined union leaders this week in calling for more government cash for pay rises for lecturers. But lecturers' union Natfhe said the bid from principals for an extra...
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Lockerbie expert questions judges' guilty verdict
The legal expert who founded Glasgow University's unique Lockerbie trial briefing unit has expressed concern over the judges' guilty verdict against one of the Libyan accused. John Grant, formerly a...
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Blunkett hits back at v-c's assault
Education secretary David Blunkett has launched a bitter attack on Sheffield Hallam University vice-chancellor Diana Green for her criticisms of the government's higher education funding record. He...
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Institutions lose net access
Buckingham University wants compensation from the UK Education and Research Networking Association after it spent a week without email or web services when a cable was cut on the national...
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Ambitious plan to launch Humble telescope
Physics undergraduates at the University of Kent at Canterbury are spearheading an effort to get the Humble Space Telescope into orbit. The idea, first hatched six years ago, is to give pupils at UK...
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Analysis: Can't afford a house on £33,000
Sky-high London housing costs are blighting lecturer recruitment. Universities are calling for more state help. University lecturers in London face low pay, crippling transport costs and the prospect...
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Whistleblowers: Student anger at Sems
Students have joined staff in raising the alarm about problems at Surrey University's European Management School. The THES reported last year that Sems staff were concerned about a management culture...
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Eyewitness: Richter scale for international crises
Can a political crisis be measured? Is there a quantitative way to compare long-running tensions between India and Pakistan with US reactions to the Cuban missile crisis? Michael Brecher, founder of...
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World watch
Rome Italian premier Giuliano Amato has taken over the universities ministry following the resignation of Ortensio Zecchino, minister since 1998. Mr Zecchino left to campaign for a new political...
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World view: The future? It all depends
Universities that lack a real sense of mission will lose their vaunted position in society, argues Brenda Gourley. In The English - A Portrait of a People , Jeremy Paxman describes how he asked the...
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Government should act to combat student debt
As higher education caters for increasing numbers of students, the funding situation is becoming critical, writes Diana Green. Higher education confronts government with a dilemma. As with the...
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Bargain bin sells talent short
Fixed-term contracts and financial insecurity are no way to treat committed staff, insists Chris Kynch. Many employers have learnt from the downsizing of the early 1990s that insecure contracts do...
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Under the hammer
Should students be made umpires in an academic wage contest? Frank Furedi thinks not. Politicians seem to find it difficult to have any constructive ideas about higher education. Education ministers...
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Why I... think we need to know how student support can increase access
One of the biggest omissions from the select committee's report on access to higher education is any discussion of student financial support. Yet reforms to the student funding system herald some of...