Council offers students neighbourly advice
Students renting flats in Edinburgh could soon receive council leaflets with information on washing the stairs, putting out rubbish and keeping the noise down. The policy and resources committee of...
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Post-30 students on the slide
The number of first-degree, part-time home students aged 30 and over in the UK fell by six percentage points last year compared to 1996-97 - little better than in 1995-96, according to latest figures...
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De Montfort's chief tipped to lead revival
The daunting task of rescuing Thames Valley University may go to Kenneth Barker, the 65-year-old vice-chancellor of De Montfort University, who was due to retire next month. It is understood that...
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TVU wins a clean bill of health
Undergraduate courses at Thames Valley University have received a clean bill of health in the latest audit, which contrasts sharply with a damaging quality report last November. The audit, presented...
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College staff unions join forces to lobby Blackstone for better pay deal
A joint delegation of further education college employers and unions met further and higher education minister Baroness Blackstone this week to beg for more money for colleges. It was the first time...
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Degree standards dog lighter inspection
Some universities cannot guarantee the standard of their degrees and this will undermine plans for "light-touch" inspections, a quality assurance expert warned this week. Roger Brown, who was chief...
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LJMU faces re-audit
Liverpool John Moores University must prepare for a funding council audit while struggling with finances and possible industrial action over redundancies. The ÌÇÐÄVlog Funding Council for...
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Call for universities to get tougher with student unions
A Conservative MP has called for tougher measures to make universities ensure student unions are keeping to the law. Introducing a debate on student unions in the House of Commons, Julian Lewis, MP...
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Row erupts over vote to break from NUS
The National Union of Students has been accused of barring attempts by a local student union to disaffiliate, in an attempt to hold on to hefty membership fees. Students at Southampton University who...
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Complaints code only an 'interim measure'
Uncertainty over the future of the visitorial system for the resolution of disputes in old universities has led the Quality Assurance Agency to concede that its long-awaited code of practice on...
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Audit reveals some Welsh colleges still ignoring best practices
Conflicts of interest, secret decision making, unaccountable leadership and poor control of public money continue to blight college management, according to a report on further education in Wales by...
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Britain to get wider access to digital art
Britain could soon follow the United States in a groundbreaking deal between librarians and copyright societies to make digital images of 20th-century art more widely available to universities and...
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Scottish artists are being sold short
An art college principal accused Scottish funding chiefs of selling young artists and designers short, challenging the Scottish executive to recognise art and design as a higher education priority....
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New arts qualifications set to attract funding and recognition
Dance and drama students will have the chance to join new courses leading to nationally recognised qualifications and possibly attracting financial support. The six new courses, known provisionally...
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To win, Nesta must dare to fail
If the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts is to succeed overall, it must dare to fail on specific projects. So recommended the House of Commons select committee on science and...