Report set to blame TQA for dropout rise
Higher education quality assessments may be compounding university dropout problems, a report is expected to say. The education select committee's second report on higher education is expected to...
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Late PhD penalties criticised
Parents and students have attacked the practice of charging thousands of pounds to postgraduates who fail to complete their PhDs on time, writes Alison Goddard. Students who have completed three...
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City to boost pay to lure the best
The new dean of City University's business school plans to increase pay offers to academics in a bid to attract quality staff. David Currie said: "We will have to enhance the remuneration package we...
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Sector urged to invest morally
British universities should have an ethical dimension to their teaching policies, a conference heard this week. Universities and colleges make up to £300 million a year from countries with a gross...
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Colleges protect livestock in crisis
The foot and mouth disease crisis has brought disruption to universities and colleges across the United Kingdom. Some research programmes may be put back by six months or more as institutions take...
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Refugees get student digs
Private landlords in Hull are renting out former student houses to asylum seekers thanks to lucrative government contracts, leaving students scrabbling for the few remaining properties. Parents are...
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Framework for health research welcomed
The government has announced a new governance framework for health and social care research. Last year, an inquiry led by Rod Griffiths, director of public health in the West Midlands, into the...
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Welsh told to combine forces
Welsh higher education should move towards a more formal federal structure with greater central control, ministers have said. There should be more formal alliances between teaching and research-led...
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Files replace degree classes
Progress files will begin to replace traditional degree classifications from the coming academic year despite widespread concerns about resources, bureaucracy, demand and privacy. Guidance published...
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Nurse research under threat
Scottish nursing experts fear their discipline could face a double setback through controversial funding council proposals on teaching and research that could threaten at least 150 research jobs. The...
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Glasgow University's course in accounting and business ethics
Final-year students on Glasgow University's course in accounting and business ethics were given practical experience of crime not paying when they were put on remand and locked up in Barlinnie,...
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Royalties on hold in fee dispute
Authors will receive no copyright royalties from photocopying of their work by the higher education sector until a dispute between the Copyright Licensing Agency and Universities UK is settled,...
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Analysis: Is a return to grants really the answer?
New Labour's student support system is under fire. It is already being overhauled in Scotland and Northern Ireland and there is intense pressure to reform it in the rest of the UK. Claire Sanders,...
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Should the NUS have fought to keep grants or was it a lost cause?
Should the National Union of Students have fought harder to keep the grant? Can it do anything to reverse the state of student support? Many student leaders believe the NUS took a wrong turn in the...
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On the move
The University of Leeds has appointed: Mojtabi Ghadiri , former professor of particle technology at the University of Surrey, to a chair in chemical engineering; Philip Kocienski , former head of...