In the news: Gaston Caperton
If higher education minister Margaret Hodge was expecting a bureaucrat of the type that habitually heads British exam boards when she met the chief executive of America's College Board this week, she...
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Refuseniks snub call to vet foreign students
A hard core of academics is resisting attempts to recruit their help in vetting and monitoring foreign scientists. Twenty-four students from "countries of concern" have been turned away by UK...
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Appointments
Adrian Smith , principal of Queen Mary, University of London, has been named chairman of a government inquiry into mathematics from the age of 14. Professor Smith, a recent president of the Royal...
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Oxford v-c gives nod to top-ups
Oxford University vice-chancellor Colin Lucas has spoken out in favour of top-up fees and against a graduate tax. Writing in the Oxford Gazette this week, Sir Colin said: "I do not think that it is...
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Student aid overhauled
Ministers have simplified the "dog's breakfast" of financial support available to the most vulnerable students amid concerns that the confusing array of grants and subsidies was putting people off...
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Earnings data support fees hike beyond Russell Group
New universities should be allowed to charge top-up fees because their graduates gain almost as much additional earning power as their peers from Russell Group institutions, researchers have...
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Address pay crisis now, urges Tory lord
Academics are more deserving of a pay rise than firefighters, former Conservative education secretary Lord Baker told this week's House of Lords debate on the financial situation facing British...
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Graduates vote against expansion to avoid diluting value of degree
Graduates are keen to protect their "elite" status by preventing too many people from following them to university, according to a report into British social attitudes to be published next week. The...
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Petition backs Baker
Hundreds of academics have signed a petition urging the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology to abandon its inquiry into Mona Baker's actions. The petition, initiated by the...
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Autocracy kills courses
Autocratic management in further education is responsible for falling standards, researchers have concluded. A report on the findings of a survey for the Learning and Skills Development Agency says...
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A further foundation
The University of Warwick's Centre for Lifelong Learning has launched a foundation degree that will open a professional pathway for further education lecturers. The degree in post-compulsory...
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Don defeats Lineker
Leicester University's genetic fingerprinting pioneer Sir Alec Jeffreys has been voted Leicestershire's "greatest Briton". Readers of the Leicester Mercury newspaper placed Sir Alec above football...
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Hymns and healing
St Andrews University theologian Ian Bradley appeared yesterday on a US Thanksgiving Day television broadcast explaining the role of hymns in helping people in the aftermath of the World Trade Center...
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Engineering aids
A Loughborough University-led project is seeking to help future engineers improve their maths skills. Loughborough's David Green and Joe Ward are leading a three-year study, which is being conducted...
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Big skills 'mess' will take a year to sort out
It could take a year for further education colleges to breathe new life into a skills training system described as a "mess" by trade and industry secretary Patricia Hewitt, college heads warned this...