Survey reveals sailing secrets
Scotland's ship graveyards are set to yield their secrets to researchers from St Andrews University. The university's Scottish Institute of Maritime Studies will investigate six fragile sites around...
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Dependence on foreign fees poses threat to UK research
Overseas student fees are sustaining United Kingdom universities' research effort in several key fields, the UK Council for Overseas Student Affairs has warned. In some crucial areas, Ukcosa has told...
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MPs push for more cash to speed cure for cancer
Academic salaries need boosting and more long-term contracts are required to help support the national effort to tackle cancer, according to MPs. The House of Commons select committee on science and...
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QAA alerts Bournemouth to overseas provision 'oversight'
Quality chiefs are concerned about Bournemouth University's rapid expansion of collaborative provision, casting doubt over its ten-year business plan, writes Phil Baty. A Quality Assurance Agency...
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Moonlighters await green light
Cambridge University might allow top medical academics to moonlight in the private sector to prevent a potential brain drain. The university's general board wants to change the regulations and allow...
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Report finds FE businesswanting
Further education's second biggest subject area, business, is facing a recruitment crisis as facilities and staff training fall behind industry needs, inspectors have found. The number of full-time...
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Multiprofessional education in action
St George's and Kingston University From next month, 187 medical students, 35 biomedical science students, 40 physiotherapists, 40 diagnostic radiographers, 12 therapeutic radiographers and 30 nurses...
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Gagging could backfire
Universities are misrepresenting whistleblowing laws to try to discourage staff from speaking out to regulatory authorities or to the press, according to experts. They think the attempts will...
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The season to be brutal
They are a canny lot in Leeds Metropolitan University's publicity department - and refreshingly modest about the kind of things going on in their institution. Their latest newsletter carried a plea...
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Not really on the ball
Football mania swept the government's press briefing last week on the scheme to boost the pay of top researchers. Bob May, the chief scientific adviser, kicked off with a remark about recruiting the...
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Got it dot.covered
Thinking of setting up an OxfordUniversity.com website? Think again. The university has a tough new strategy to protect its name and logo and has been buying up Top Level Domain codes, including .edu...
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World watch
Prisoners in Tuscany who are enrolled on a degree course can seek a transfer to a new "university" section at the Prato prison just outside Florence. There they will have single cells, and lecturers...
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World watch
Banks have agreed to keep running the federal student loan programme for seven more months after the Canadian government asked for more time to transfer the scheme to a private company. The...
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Devilishly talented
Take a second look at the portrait of higher education minister Tessa Blackstone hanging in the council rooms of Birkbeck College, London, where she was formerly master. Artist Peter Edwards has...
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Don's Diary
Friday The aircraft door opens and the heat hits you - welcome to Antigua. Time is tight and I worry that I will not get through passport control in time to board the helicopter to my final...