News - November, 2007

The UK’s top universities are admitting increasing numbers of independent school pupils, despite efforts to broaden participation of students

Temporary contracts remain the norm for academic staff, the University and Colleges Union (UCU) has found, calling the problem the ‘unacceptable underbelly of higher education’.

Universities, as we all know, are often short of cash. It’s one thing they’ve got in common with the people that attend them. Students often find novel and imaginative ways of making money, and it appears universities are following suit.

If you could choose your university's Chancellor, who would it be? Oxford University’s Chancellor is Chris Patten; Cambridge has the Duke of Edinburgh. But Liverpool John Moores has gone for another type of royalty altogether. Brian May, guitarist with Queen, to be precise.

Oxford University has found itself embroiled in a fierce debate over an event due to be held next Monday by the Oxford Union.

We know it’s wrong, but sometimes it’s just so tempting. Those magic words ‘would you like to save 15% on your purchases?’ seem immediately to cause the voice of rationality to be silenced, and before you know it, you’ve spent 15 minutes filling out a form and you’re the proud (or ashamed) owner of a brand new store card.

If you see yourself as a budding Richard Branson or Stelios, what was it that inspired your entrepreneurial ambition? Parents? School? University? If you’ve answered the latter, you’re probably in the minority.

Oxford University must attract more black students to preserve its ‘integrity’, US civil rights leader Rev Jesse Jackson has said.

A lot of column inches have been dedicated to the gender pay gap in top level jobs, but new research has found that this pay gap appears much sooner than originally thought.

‘Vod-bull’ has quickly become a staple of student drinking life. It almost seems specifically designed to appeal to those who have had a few too many late nights and hard days, but are still dead-set on going out again. Red bull to keep you awake, vodka to give you the alcohol-induced energy.