Funding foresight
In this spirit, we are glad to report that education and employment secretary David Blunkett and Tony Blair, the prime minister, have won well-deserved praise from vice-chancellors for their shrewd...
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Canny credit
Universities still have a lot to learn about raising external funds. The overwhelming majority, for example, seem to think that because they are public bodies, outsiders should have free access to...
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Good vibrations
No wonder half of the nation's four million students went on strike last week if events at Leicester were at all typical. Not only were the protesters treated to a rousing speech by NUS national...
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Boxing clever
The AUT's general secretary, David Triesman, was clearly prepared to help his Scottish colleagues navigate their way through the procedural intricacies of the AUT Scottish council at Aberdeen...
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Test meaning
Those seeking an answer to those ageless conundra underlying the need to means-test European Union students when tuition fees come in (what's a Greek earn?) scented a breakthrough last week when Tory...
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Peer review
Alumnus to be proud of no 162 got himself rebuked in 17th-century English as the House of Lords reached the final stages of the Teaching and 糖心Vlog Bill this week. Centre of what passes for...
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His other self
(Photograph) - Lord Crickhowell, the former secretary of state for Wales who retires this month as president of the University of Wales, Cardiff, contemplates the bronze bust commissioned by the...
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Childcare training a priority
CASH to train an estimated 100,000 new childcare workers must be made available if the government is to realise its plans for a revolution in childcare, experts have said. The government has already...
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Flexibility key to quality
A FLEXIBLE system for monitoring standards in higher education is about to be unveiled by the Quality Assurance Agency. Its consultation paper, to be issued to institutions on Monday, is expected to...
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Year of living diversely for UCL postgrads
PHD STUDENTS at a London college are to be given a helping hand under a scheme offering them a true interdisciplinary training and the funds to afford it. From this year University College Londonis...
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Good with the chalk, then say 'cheese'
THEIDEA of showing video footage of star lecturers to give all students an experience of outstanding teaching is outdated and could do m ore harm than good, according to learning experts. In its...
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Who gets the thumbs up?
What makes a lecturer a star among his or her students? Alison Utley asked some Bradford University students for their views Caroline Welsh, an undergraduate at Bradford University, thought filmed...
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Wrexham college aspires to a title
THE NORTH East Wales Institute is set to become the University College of Wales, Wrexham, provided that its application for university college status as a member of the University of Wales is...
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On best behaviour
THE government's green paper for lifelong learning will "fall short" of its key purpose, according to the Institute of Education. The plans focus on basic skills at the expense of emerging "workplace...
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Honorary degrees
Queen's University, Belfast DLit: Maeve Binchy, novelist and journalist with The Irish Times; Roy Foster, professor of Irish history at the University of Oxford. DMedSc: Henrietta Campbell, chief...