Sex and dismissal claims for Edinburgh
A former academic from Edinburgh University's social anthropology department is taking legal action against the university, while a senior staff member has been suspended following allegations of...
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MPs to look at top-up fees
MPs look likely to add top-up fees to their inquiry into higher education. Members of the influential Commons education sub-committee indicated this week that differential undergraduate tuition fees...
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Mature students get more mature
The average age of mature students is increasing, according to latest analysis by the Higher Education Statistics Agency. Based on work used to inform a government-sponsored research project, the...
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Scots told to give scientists a boost
Scotland should give contract researchers a better deal in a bid to boost the science base, a review group has told Henry McLeish, Scotland's minister for enterprise and lifelong learning. Mr McLeish...
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Industry cuts academic ties
A lack of cash and the constraints of quality assessment mean that business schools will no longer be able to deal directly with business, according to Ray Wild, principal of the Henley Management...
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All shook up
Never one to say nay to a good idea, De Montfort University has built up what it believes to be the biggest database in the world on headshaking in horses. This frustrating summertime condition,...
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Going underground
Not satisfied with the opportunity to reduce undergraduates to quivering wrecks in seminars, three academics at the universities of Durham and Teesside have ventured further afield to conduct...
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A dying Eco
It's a good job that Umberto Eco, Italy's most famous intellectual and director of the department of semiotics at the University of Bologna, is a philosophical sort of chap. One of his academic...
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The name game
More suggestions for the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals' new moniker come from Dick Leigh, chair of lecturers' union Natfhe at the University of Westminster. He proposes Top HE Staff...
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David Hargreaves
When he was chief inspector of the Inner London Education Authority in the 1980s, David Hargreaves referred to teaching as "a grumbling profession". His attacks on teacher trainers, educational...
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On the move
Abner Weiss, incoming rabbi of the Western Marble Arch Synagogue in London, has been appointed principal of the London School of Jewish Studies. Timothy Williamson, professor of logic and metaphysics...
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Glittering prizes
The University of Edinburgh is awarding honorary degrees to: Grahame Bulfield, director and chief executive of the Roslin Institute (DSc); John Colquhoun, sports journalist and former rector of the...
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Eyewitness
After a decade of civil war, Papua New Guinea's island province of Bougainville has been granted autonomy from Port Moresby. A new interim government was sworn in last month, but there will be no...
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New York
A Columbia University student who falsely claimed extra time to finish assignments on the grounds that his brother had been killed in a car accident died last week after jumping in front of a train....
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St Petersburg
Russia's federal education ministry has reinstated Yuriy Savelev as rector of the Baltic State Technical University. He was suspended in March on the orders of federal education minister Vladimir...