Red tape cut to set market free
Ministers will slash university regulation under plans to let market forces drive higher education. Announcing the creation of a red-tape task force this week, higher education minister Margaret...
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Cyber cheat network grows
Students are openly swapping A-level coursework assignments to plagiarise from one another's work on one of Britain's most popular revision internet sites. Within hours of logging on to the Revise.it...
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Universities blamed for exam fiasco
MPs are to investigate the relative worth of AS and A2 levels after the chief of the exam board at the centre of this summer's exam standards fiasco blamed universities for getting the balance wrong...
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Whistleblowers: Pimlott row sparks Goldsmiths review
'Senior sources at the college said this week that the committee would not have been set up had it not been for concerns about Professor Pimlott's performance' Governors are reviewing the management...
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Whistleblowers: Police hunt for student immigration adviser
A warrant has been issued for the arrest of a man alleged to have been exploiting overseas students hoping to study in the UK. Jabulani Dube is believed to have left Britain after the immigration...
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Unions unite to strike for pay hike in capital
More than 100,000 students will be hit as staff prepare to shut down London universities in a dispute over pay and the failure to recognise the cost of living in the capital. As The THES went to...
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120 more jobs go in restructuring
Some 120 jobs have now been axed at South Bank University in a bid to save £5 million. Some 95 staff have taken voluntary redundancy, 21 have not had their contracts renewed and the rest have retired...
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Union calls for ban on BNP man
Lecturers' leaders have called for the expulsion of a senior British National Party official from Greenwich University. Natfhe, the lecturers' union, said that the presence of Lawrence Rustem, head...
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Scots opt for unified system
Scottish higher and further education, vocational training and community education must all be brought together under a single national strategy rather than being treated as separate sectors. This is...
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Minorities impeded in job search
Blacks and Asians are twice as likely as white graduates to be unemployed six months after leaving university, a conference heard this week. The latest research, by the Association of Graduate...
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Poet Heaney joins protest over axeing of classics
The ruling senate at Queen's University has backed a controversial plan to close its classics department despite intervention by Nobel laureate poet Seamus Heaney. A majority vote by the senate last...
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Lecturers balk at Bradford merger
Bradford University academics have called for a referendum on whether their institution should merge with a neighbouring further education college, writes Alison Utley. An extraordinary meeting of...
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News in brief
Unions could unseat Manchester merger Trade unions at Manchester University and the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology warned this week that failure to involve them in final...
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Mergers pave way for Welsh super-university
The Welsh have taken a step towards the creation of a single federal "super university" for the principality. New proposals for mergers and strategic alliances were this week submitted by...
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Tech-transfer course is a first
The first technology-transfer training programme aimed directly at university staff was launched this week. Praxis, the UK University Technology Transfer Programme, has been designed by enterprise...