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16 Sep

Glasgow trying to lose staff

Glasgow University is trying to shed staff in an attempt to reduce its £10.5m deficit. It's been offering voluntary redundancies for a while but so far only half have been taken.

If the redundancies turn compulsory the AUT union is threatening to "greylist" the university, meaning that members in other universities may refuse to cooperate with it. When that happened at London Met, external moderation got held up and some students are still waiting for their marks.

27 Aug

Banned academic to teach at Oxford

Professor Tariq Ramadan, an Islamic scholar who was banned from the US, is to teach at Oxford. Time magazine seems to like him, but the Homeland Security people did not. Neither did The Sun in the UK.

25 Aug

Lecturers quit over library sackings

Five senior lecturers have "resigned" over the sacking of four librarians at the School of Oriental and African Studies as part of a restructuring programme.

Too many academics going abroad

Academics are worried that too many of their number are heading abroad - especially to the US - in search of better pay. Increased administrative duties and fixed-term contracts may also be to blame.

A committee of MPs is on the case.

10 Aug

UCAS apologises for results cock-up

UCAS has apologised after 89 Scottish students were sent letters telling them whether or not they had got into university - a day before they got their exam results.

9 Aug

Vice-chancellor's doorknob trouble

Peter Knight, the vice-chancellor of the University of Central England, has been writing about the issue that's gripping the world of higher education at the moment: doorknobs. Apparently he has trouble using electronic key code devices.

4 Aug

Degree in golf was hard work, says student

A student who has just graduated with a first in applied golf management studies from the University of Birmingham has told the BBC that it was hard work and not a course for dossers.

30 Jul

Is the end nigh for London Uni?

Imperial College is thinking of breaking away from the University of London and going it alone, the Guardian reports. Other colleges, including UCL, LSE and KCL may also follow the same path.

29 Jul

OU lecturers fight for fair pay

Part-time Open University lecturers are up in arms over a pay settlement some claim is unfair, the Guardian reports.

16 Jul

'No confidence' in Welsh vice-chancellor

Lecturers at the University of Wales Institute in Cardiff have passed a vote of no confidence in their vice-chancellor, Tony Chapman.

The Natfhe vote went 93% to 7% against Mr Chapman on a 56% turnout. Staff are said to be unhappy with his leadership, particularly in relation to a potential merger.

More here and here.

21 Jun

Student finds exam results online early

News from Durham where an "enterprising" business student has discovered his exam results online three days before they should have been published.

Apparently he'd been fiddling with the URLs where the results were due to be published, based on ones that already had been.

A spokesman said it was a "minor" problem, the Guardian reports.

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