Analysis: Who is pulling your strings?
Natfhe is on the warpath over governance structures that reflect the 'dysfunctional distrust of staff'. Claire Sanders reports. A well-worn joke about university governance goes like this: who really...
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Lib Dems urged: do not drop 1p tax
Liberal Democrat education spokesman Phil Willis has warned his party against dropping its penny-on-tax policy if it means reneging on further and higher education promises. Mr Willis spoke out after...
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Drive for 50% target 'shutting out over-30s'
The government's promise to get 50 per cent of young people into higher education is marginalising the over-30s, according to the National Institute for Adult and Continuing Education. Niace director...
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Funds for children of WTC victims
Children of victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks have been invited to apply for new scholarships to study at British universities, worth up to £14,000 a year. Money for the scheme, which is...
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Merger plans take cuts into account
London Guildhall University and the University of North London have denied that their plans to merge have been harmed by the decision to award them just half the money they wanted, writes Alison...
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Middlesex may cut 200 jobs
Up to 200 jobs could be lost at Middlesex University as part of plans to save at least £5 million after a "very disappointing" funding settlement and problems collecting student debt. To underline...
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New Scots funding chief to develop 'national team'
Roger McClure, the new joint chief executive of the Scottish Further and ÌÇÐÄVlog Funding Councils, confesses to being "a compulsive problem-solver". He might have become an academic...
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Campus mall to sell skills for life
Greenwich and Kent universities are pioneering the country's first higher education mall. The two universities are behind a £20 million scheme to create a joint campus that will offer courses from...
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Network security lax
Measures to protect university computer networks from hackers have lagged behind the growth in the use and importance of the networks, an expert has warned. Andrew Cormack, chief security adviser for...
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BMA says doctor training threatened
Proposed changes to postgraduate medical education could jeopardise the training of senior doctors, say medical academics and doctors' leaders. In response to a Department of Health consultation on a...
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First-years sure to make sum mistake
Universities cannot assume that new students have basic numeracy skills even if they have studied mathematics at GCSE or A level, concludes a study that presents evidence of a decline in maths...
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Washington DC
A study for the Task Force on College Drinking has found that about 1,400 students aged 18 to 24 die each year in the United States in alcohol-related accidents. College-based drinking contributes to...
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Chief takes on big budget cutters
Katharine Lyall this year marks her tenth year as president of the University of Wisconsin system, making her one of the longest-serving chief executives in US higher education. It also means that Dr...
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Court reinstates sacked tutor
An Australian academic whose sacking last year sparked an international boycott of the University of Wollongong was reinstated last week after a court ruled he had been illegally dismissed....
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Medics with cancer sue McGill
Two former McGill University medical students who have developed leukaemia are suing the university for failing to renovate a laboratory that they claim is the probable cause of their condition....