Poor fail to fill access places
Middle-class young people with a family tradition of university education have been taking places on government summer schools designed to widen access to higher education for deprived groups. The...
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Brighton floats a curious project
Brighton University launched its latest research project last month, quite literally, as The Skylark - the last wooden fishing boat to be built locally - took to the waves for the first time in 30...
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Chiefs to end RAE's nursing anomaly
Funding chiefs are moving to end an anomaly that could otherwise spell the end of university research into nursing. All university staff - including those funded by the National Health Service - are...
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Loans outfit builds bridges
The Student Loans Company is hoping to build better bridges with higher education institutions by appointing a former leading Scottish administrator as a special adviser. Ronald Crawford, who...
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Hull: NAO verdict
The National Audit Office is to "closely monitor" activities at Hull University following The THES's reports of financial and academic management problems at its business school. Following an NAO...
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An attraction of opposites
Leicester's two very different universities are merging their efforts so each can meet the diverse needs for higher education. Tony Tysome reports. The University of Leicester and De Montfort...
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Don's Diary
Sunday Fly down to Rio. Images of dancers strapped to plane wings come to mind. Reality different. No Fred Astaire, it is raining in Rio and small son, aged seven, throws up. He recovers when allowed...
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Glittering prizes
King Alfred's, Winchester, has awarded honorary fellowships to: Bryan Davies, chairman of Hampshire Economic Partnership; Katrine Sporle, chief executive of Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council; and...
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On the move
Three new members of the Medical Research Council are: Nancy Rothwell, research professor in physiology at the University of Manchester; Ian MacLennan, director of the Birmingham University centre...
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In the news
As the Scottish Qualifications Authority debacle unfolds, the jacket of Scotland's minister for children and education is hanging on an increasingly shoogly (shaky) hook. The opposition parties...
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Pay heed to private life
University lecturers in London should get much bigger salaries than their colleagues in the Northeast, argues Andrew Oswald. Britain and other industrial nations should make public-sector pay more...
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No need to fit round pegs into square holes
Tutors need to tune in to students' writing, not make it conform, Carys Jones tells Jennifer Currie. The world of academia is a tough nut to crack for most students. Many see themselves as aliens who...
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Transferable skills
The ladies who do are becoming the ladies who dig. Warwick University cleaner and unsung heroine Trudy Wiles, more used to excavating rubbish bins, is taking a short course on how to spot and...
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Ode to Sir Robert
Sir Robert May is the sort of man who inspires songs. As he clears his desk at the end of his term as chief scientific adviser, he might reflect on the ditty that former Princeton colleagues penned...
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Beauty in Humberside
Oscar-winning Hollywood star Gwyneth Paltrow is on campus at the University of Lincolnshire and Humberside this week shooting scenes for her new movie. Ms Paltrow is spending five days filming...