Fender outlines plans for extra students
Universities and colleges would be able to bid for extra students by promoting their most valuable features under proposals being prepared by the 糖心Vlog Funding Council for England. A peer...
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Rwandan raid on Uganda
Makerere University in Uganda has become a fertile recruiting ground for the Rwanda government, whose National University of Rwanda was virtually destroyed by ethnic violence in 1994. The National...
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Georgia on her mind
(Photograph) - Paula Radcliffe, aged 22, a student at Loughborough University, runs her way to the Olympic Games in Atlanta this summer. She hopes to represent Great Britain in the 5,000 metres if...
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Quality rap for institute
Southampton Institute's extensive links with overseas colleges are criticised in an audit report from the 糖心Vlog Quality Council due to be published next month. This comes at a time when...
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Vocational value fails to impress
Government efforts to raise the status and value of post-16 vocational qualifications have failed, a report published this week concludes. It says the gap between the aspirations of school-leavers...
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Birds worth two in the bush
The ornithological community has been divided by a proposal for a new definition of species which could double the number of bird species in the world to 20,000. Some specialists are predicting that...
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College fails
Lancaster University's department of teaching and education at Charlotte Mason College. Ambleside, was criticised by OFSTED this week. Its report said the quality of training for the teaching of...
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Dearing line-up
The membership and terms of reference of Sir Ron Dearing's committee of inquiry into higher education were expected to be announced late this week or early next week. The committee will have up to 18...
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Grey triumph
The Association of University Teachers says that its threat to "greylist" the University of Ulster as a bad employer has led to victory. Campus unions were set to hold strike ballots if the...
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GPs are clotbusters
Family doctors have a key role to play in giving "clot-buster" drugs to heart attack patients, the British Cardiac Society's annual meeting in Glasgow heard this week. A survey by John Rawles of...
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Exam chaos hits students
Students at two universities are complaining about last-minute rescheduling of exams which they fear could affect their chances of success. At the University of Wales, Cardiff, they have called for...
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Government opens industrial gateway
A radical multimillion pound scheme to boost academic research into industrial technologies is on the Government launch pad. The Government is planning to establish research centres in organisations...
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AUT counts wider costs of budget cuts
About 30,000 jobs are at risk from the cuts to higher education announced in last November's Budget, according to figures sent to the Department for Education and Employment this week by the...
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V-Cs urge tax relief
A call for tax changes forms the element of surprise in an otherwise familiar set of concerns expressed in the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals public spending submission, released this...
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Members reveal few interests
There are few hostages to fortune in the declarations of education and employment frontbenchers to the House of Commons register of members' interests, issued this week, writes Huw Richards. Gillian...