Exeter takes the TTA to task
The University of Exeter has started court proceedings against the Teacher Training Agency after it threatened to withdraw its accreditation of the university. Exeter is applying to the High Court...
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Market force will better us, says don
Higher education would be more efficient if universities were freed from state control to adapt course supply to the demands of fee-paying students, a leading economist has claimed. Nick Barr, of the...
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Students square up for ideas property battle
Cambridge University students are set for a battle over their intellectual property. Students fear that the university intends to follow Oxford in claiming the fruits of any intellectual property...
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Whistleblowers: Ulster head under fire
Training for senior staff has been recommended at Ulster's North East Institute, after an internal investigation into a management breakdown. A report for governors into management at the Ballymena-...
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Analysis: Grants to research elite on the slide
Three of the top four research institutions will receive less in next year's funding allocations from Hefce. Alison Goddard reports. The leading research universities will get less grant money next...
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Student distress burdens tutors
More than a quarter of personal tutors have encountered students with "severe" or "life-threatening" problems in the past five years, according to a survey carried out by Hull University academics....
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Don's Diary
June 1999 Notice rise in the number of conversations about reading groups and references to them in newspapers. To find out more, I advertise and send out questionnaires. Start to grasp importance of...
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Glittering prizes
The University of North London has conferred honorary degrees on: Jane Lane , formerly of the education department in the Commission for Racial Equality; footballer Ian Wright ; Lord Clinton-Davies...
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In the news: Jim Scudamore
It has been a tough week for Jim Scudamore, chief veterinary officer at the Ministry for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. The 56-year-old University of Liverpool graduate, who is responsible for...
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On the move
The University of Bradford has appointed Diana Anderson and Val Randall of the department of biological sciences to professorships. John Campbell , fellow of New College, Oxford , has been appointed...
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Nomenklatura UK
Hugo Radice, director of Leeds University Centre for Russian, Eurasian and Central European Studies, has a novel take on why we complain about the research assessment exercise and the teaching...
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Classroom criminals
The Universities UK funding options group, in its final report, revealed some interesting benefits of higher education. It has identified no fewer than 11 reasons why higher education is a good thing...
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Learn to go alone
Rose Mary Farenden, a senior executive with the Ford Motor Company, has revealed what life was like as the only woman in the mechanical engineering class at Queen's University, Belfast, in the early...
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Eyewitness
Jews believe Jerusalem's Temple Mount was where Abraham prepared to sacrifice Isaac in a test of his obedience. To Christians, it is where Jesus overturned the tables of the moneychangers and was...
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World watch
Washington DC In his first budget, United States President George W. Bush is to include aid for higher education and science, including a doubling of the allocation for the National Institutes of...