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Points out that college freshmen in Great Britain with ordinary diligence can expect a decent 2.1, and that will be enough to ensure that they secure the graduate premium appropriate to the sort of degree they have done and where they have done it. Tendency of college teachers to conform with the general expectation; Side effects of the usual course delivery.

Reveals that Scotland has failed to produce a coherent plan on lifelong learning. Comments from Association of University Teachers Scotland (AUTS); Assessment of the AUTS on the government policy in education.

This article reports on a statement issued by Sally Hunt, general secretary of the University and College Union (UCU), in an internal paper of the UCU saying that hundreds of lecturers who participated in a marking boycott in 2005 suffered significant pay deductions of up to 40 percent without the kind of support members expect from the union. The paper also said some lecturers were advised by the union to take legal test to try to recover their docked pay, as outriders for hundreds of their colleagues.

The article focuses on Simon Burgess, professor of economics at Bristol University and director of the Centre for Market and Public Organisation. He presented the findings of research on the economics of parental choice to the Prime Minister's Strategy unit the day before the British government published its White Paper on education. He reacted to the White paper saying that he wants to see more emphasis being placed on support for poorer families to make choices.

Reports on the call of a group of senior Oxford University academics in England for an improved system of checks and balances on university management to monitor the decisions made by senior managers. Necessity for a board of scrutiny based on a paper produced on behalf of the academics; Overview of recommendations cited in the paper.

Comments on key issues pertaining to the authorship of scientific papers and journals in undergraduate universities in Great Britain including doctoral students, postdoctorates and professors. Efforts of students and several professors to conceal methodological flaws in scientific papers; Trends in writing academic and scientific papers; Indications of higher education.

Provides information about the research paper "A Longitudinal Analysis of Television Viewing Habits 2004-05," by Professor Gordon Lapping. Abstract of the research paper; Details on how the results were disseminated.

The author stresses the need for professors to use the Internet and e-mails to reduce their paperworks in Great Britain. She notes that academics and students alike fail to read advice and notices posted on their schools' website. She urges academics to transfer their paperworks such as student handbooks and module specifications into the Web to save paper. She believes that student do not want to be burdened with endless instructions, guidelines and others.

The author reflects on the amatory leisure pursuits of scholars during academic conferences. He argues that venues such as Umbria, Italy and Athens, Greece provide academics a more relaxing experience in the rare moments they spend outside the lecture theater. He suggests that academics may head for the airport during the conference season with more in mind than their unfinished seminar paper.

The article emphasizes the author's call for the need to stop pointless extracurricular activities that academics engage in for the sake of their curriculum vitae. Unsolicited call for papers disturb academics. The author says that meaningless activities and pointless initiatives have perpetuated in higher education. These, according to the author, are waste of energy.

The article presents a scenario wherein the director of corporate affairs cites the status of a research submitted by a British college professor for the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE). The director states that the RAE committee rejected the claim of the professor that his research was internationally excellent. The professor based his claim on the publication of his paper in the "Welsh Journal of Media Studies." The committee decided to place his research in the Solipsist category.

The article focuses on the criticisms being raised against the University and College Union (UCU) in Great Britain over its approach to a proposed academic boycott of Israel. It cites the implications of the position of the UCU. Academics have claimed that the paper released by the UCU fails to address the point that boycotts unintentionally discriminate against Jews.

The article reflects on the need for the academics to use staple in their communication. Staple can be used to fix auditing papers to annoy auditors or create lively discussion on the Internet. The versatility of staple allows universities to connect ideas. Staples can also be used in scholarly publishing.

Reports on the decision of Mike Reddy, a senior lecturer at the University of Wales, to allow his students to set their own final-year exam by writing a series of questions on their examination paper. Controversies raised over such alternative method of student assessment; Advantages offered by the method compared to the traditional one; Implication of traditional examination for students.

Reveals that the ground rules for the 2008 research assessment exercise (RAE) in Great Britain will unfairly penalise new academics in the humanities. Required number of research papers that should be produce by academics who entered the profession before August 31, 2003; Reason the cut-off point which applies across all subject areas is unfair, according to the panel who are serving as referees on RAE; Statement issued by Pauline Stafford, chair of the history sub-panel of RAE.

The article focuses on the risk facing the author for teaching modern history. The author, like other university professors, is at risk of incarceration if the Terrorism Bill will be enacted. The subject she handles deals with forms of terrorism, from violence resistance to 19th century colonialism. The papers she taught are centrally concerned with the issue and efficacy of terrorism.

Presents news related to higher education. Decision of Albania's new government to close three universities; Information on the paper "Rethinking the White Australia Policy," by Andrew Fraser, a law lecturer at Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales; Strike of University teachers in Benin and in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Explains that an education research reveals that the growing trend in Great Britain of relocating educators and college teachers from private offices into open-plan rooms could damage their sense of worth and their concentration. Call center ambience; Suggestion that academics can no longer be trusted to work alone; Presentation of an academic paper on challenges to academic identity.

Reports on the academic plagiarism case involving Norfolk State University in Virginia assistant professor, Christopher Ngassam, concerning a research paper on the South African stock market with the data copied from a 1995 article about the Korean stock market. Periodical where the article, from which Ngassam copied the report, was published; Possible consequences of Ngassam's actions.

Reports on the controversy generated by the consultation paper of the Association of University Teachers in Great Britain which will allow lecturers the right to refuse students who express racist of fascist views. Issue of conscience involved in the stance of the association; Issues of race discrimination arising from the policy.

Reports on the possibility for a Korean professor who admitted intentionally reproducing work from a Canadian academic paper to lose his job as part of a drive by his government to get though on theft of intellectual property. Resignation plans of Jong-Wook Baek; Discovery of the plagiarism; Institute conducting investigation on the incident.

Profiles British professor Tom Kirkwood. Career history; Interest in interdisciplinary research; Number of scientific papers published; Development of the 'disposable soma' theory of aging.

Reports that college teacher David Bell has produced a paper explaining the workings of the Barnett Formula, used in determining government public spending in Scotland.