SNP calls for equal student treatment
THE Scottish National Party says it would cost the government at most only Pounds 250,000 a year to end the anomaly whereby English, Welsh and Northern Irish students will pay more to study in...
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Warning against New Zealand 'Lego'
Britain should learn from the mistakes New Zealand has made in modularising qualifications for 16 to 19-year-old education, says Alan Smithers, director of Brunel University's centre for education...
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Private finance for London hospital merger
One of the largest estate deals involving the private sector in higher education has been struck with London's King's College and the United Medical and Dental School of Guys and St Thomas's...
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Remorse and the psychopath
A study into the emotions of psychopaths has won Medical Research Council support. Researchers at University College, London, will try to understand why psychopaths are aggressive and feel no remorse...
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Chemistry lecturers offered cash carrot
THE Royal Society of Chemistry is offering three awards worth Pounds 250 each for outstanding teaching and/or developing innovative materials or teaching methods in chemistry higher education....
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Plea to amend Nolan misconduct law
THE statutory offence, misuse of public office, proposed by the Nolan committee on standards in public life in July last year, should exclude members of further education corporations, the...
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Wake up and toughen up, Lib Dems tell v-cs
Vice chancellors came under a surprise attack this week from Liberal Democrats urging a tougher high-profile stand against the Teaching and 糖心Vlog Bill. Phil Willis, the Liberal Democrat...
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Call to punish race bias
COLLEGES should have their teacher training accreditation withdrawn if they fail to tackle ethnic discrimination, the Commission for Racial Equality has said. Sir Herman Ouseley, chairman of the...
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Flexible course starting in offing
AN OVERHAUL of university admissions is in the pipeline to allow students to start courses at different times of the academic year. Officials at the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service have...
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Primary training numbers plummet
Applications for places on undergraduate primary teacher training courses have dropped by almost a quarter, it emerged this week. Latest figures from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service...
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'Tax past students'
A retrospective graduate windfall tax should be imposed on people who completed their degrees as long as 20 years ago, an influential network of academics has proposed. David Halpern, founder of left...
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Bye bye to 'golden hello'
EMPLOYERS will be reluctant to offer "golden hellos" to attract fee-paying graduates, but will increasingly turn to sponsorships and salary differentials to lure high-fliers, according to the...
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Knight rider
Not even a knighthood seems to have spurred Peter North into producing his long-awaited report into the future of Oxford. The report, delayed to avoid a clash with Dearing, was said to be with the...
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Family values
Signs of over-enthusiasm at Strathclyde University, whose principal John Arbuthnott became Sir John in the New Year honours. The university issued a press release stating that he "received a peerage...
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Geographical latitude
Geographers may not be noted for their sense of humour, but the venue for this week's annual conference of the Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers is clearly an in joke. The...