Geographers shown the way to the classroom
Geography departments are being urged to join a national scheme promoting a teaching career to their students in a bid to combat dwindling higher education intakes. The Royal Geographical Society-...
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Sizer urges respect for parliament
John Sizer retired this week as founding chief executive of the Scottish higher and further education funding councils full of praise for devolved Scotland, writes Olga Wojtas. He said he took the...
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Scientists fail to tackle fraud
Universities must take research fraud more seriously and help lead the fight against unscrupulous scientists, according to the Committee on Publication Ethics. The fourth annual report from Cope, a...
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UCL cultural mission is music to the ears
University College London researchers in fields as diverse as literary tragedy and quantum mechanics have acquired a shared resource - a resident orchestra. The college has signed up the New London...
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Dropout rate is in hands of colleges
The quality of teaching and good course design are the most significant factors affecting student retention and achievement in further education, according to a study. They are more important than...
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Scots reform met Iron Lady resistance
A Scottish Parliament may have been unimaginable 30 years ago, but there were devolutionary rumblings over the impact of raising the school leaving age to 16 in 1972, writes Olga Wojtas. Scotland...
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Best foot forward for farm colleges
Agricultural colleges have accelerated moves towards diversification and rationalisation in the wake of the foot-and-mouth crisis, which was officially declared over this week. Steps that college...
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Papers reveal Thatcher's persuasive powers
The year after ending free school milk, Margaret Thatcher was dethroning yet another apparently immovable feature of the landscape of British education - Lord Robbins. The cabinet papers for 1971,...
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Hardship rejig leaves post-92 campuses smiling
New metropolitan universities have been the biggest winners under a shake-up in the way government access and hardship funds are distributed. Statistics from the Department for Education and Skills...
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QAA wary of China ambitions
Quality chiefs have warned universities not to over-exploit the Chinese student market by expanding too quickly without proper controls over standards, or by glossing over cultural and language...
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Slaps on the back all round
Scotland's international lead in developing a qualifications framework has helped underpin its success story of almost one in two young people taking up higher education, according to Wendy Alexander...
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OU: we aim to woo NGOs
The Open University will develop a more holistic approach to its curriculum and recruit more students from non-governmental organisations under its new vice-chancellor Brenda Gourley, who took up her...
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'A gravitation towards the mediocre'?
Vice-chancellors and academics met to discuss the rocky road that leads from an elite to a mass system. Clare Sanders reports. What will higher education look like in 2010? Three vice-chancellors and...
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Whistleblowers: Snubbed Cambridge scholar is rewarded
Cambridge University has overturned a decision to deny astronomer Roger Griffin promotion to a personal chair after his rejection prompted a flood of protests from around the world. An appeal...
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Cells learn of life beyond the dish
In a Californian laboratory, a two-year-old culture of living brain cells has been set loose in a virtual world. Scientists have been coaxing it to take an interest in the world beyond its dish and...