Queen's v-c to retire
Sir George Bain, vice-chancellor of Queen's University, Belfast, since 1998, is to retire next summer. Canadian-born Sir George, an industrial relations expert who chaired the review of firefighters...
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Social work shake-up
Service users are to help shape the new social-work degree, health minister Jacqui Smith told a conference on the future of social work education and training this week. Universities will be provided...
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New Beacon winners
The Learning and Skills Council has announced three college Beacon Awards winners. Bridgewater College in Somerset and Loreto College in Manchester jointly won a Beacon for innovation in improving...
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Gabriel polls users
Gabriel, the web-based service of the European National Libraries, has launched an online questionnaire in a bid to inform its development. It is a gateway to holdings of 41 European National...
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Durham in cuts row
A row has erupted at Durham University over plans to axe the counselling studies department, part of the School of Education. Students have accused the administration of refusing to discuss the plans...
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Genes and health study
Manchester University is to host the £45 million UK Biobank project, which will use 500,000 DNA samples to analyse how genes and lifestyle affect health. Volunteers aged 45 to 69 will donate blood...
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Devil's advocate ignites row...
Education secretary Charles Clarke has initiated a fundamental debate about the purpose of universities, amid continuing controversy over remarks he made last month in a speech at University College...
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...as Tories back course cull to finance plans
Thousands of honours degree places could be culled under Conservative plans that may cut the number of universities by reallocating funding for less academic courses, shadow education secretary...
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In the news: PowderJect
An Oxford University spin-off this week claimed to be the first UK biotech start-up to pay a dividend to shareholders. PowderJect Pharmaceuticals announced its second year in profit. Revenues have...
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Appointments
• Lewis Perinbam, a former senior adviser at the Commonwealth of Learning, succeeds H. Ian Macdonald as chair of the board of governors. He is the second Canadian to hold the post. • Jill Macleod...
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Joint plea to save core values
Attempts to rate university courses according to their "usefulness" would jeopardise the fundamental values that underpin higher education, higher education and industry leaders have said. A draft...
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How the story unfolded
Thursday May 1 13.00 The THES is told by a reliable source that education secretary Charles Clarke had stunned an audience at University College Worcester when he said the state should fund only...
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University: what's it for?
Vice-chancellors believe universities exist to create and transmit knowledge. The sector contains a diversity of missions but there are common strands, says Universities UK. "Universities educate and...
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Clarke asks what the state should pay for
Extracts from Charles Clarke's speech at University College, Worcester on April 8. "In 1976, the then prime minister James Callaghan caused a storm because he dared to question the role of education...
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League tables correction
Last week's league table of research income was based on an average of three years beginning in 1998-99, not on 2000-01 alone, as the key stated. In the table for mathematics, the research grades of...