Colleges fear new exam is too tough
Further education college chiefs have warned that a rigid grading system adopted for the new "vocational A level" may send failure rates soaring. College heads have already reported worryingly low...
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Why a degree could be good for your health
Getting a degree makes you less likely to get depressed or drunk, but more susceptible to eating disorders, according to new research, writes Alison Utley. John Bynner, director of the Institute of...
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Scotland faces clearing crush
Students hoping to gain a place through clearing at a Scottish institution should expect a far tougher ride than those seeking a course south of the border. A bumper year for applications combined...
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Drama students to get state cash
Students at some specialist dance and drama schools will no longer have to pay high private tuition fees but will instead be funded largely by the state. An order creating a new Conservatoire for...
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Nursing deans plea for lighter touch from QAA
Nursing deans are lobbying the Department of Health and the Quality Assurance Agency to include National Health Service-funded courses in the "lighter touch" quality assurance blueprint. The Council...
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Scheme proves an eye opener
Volunteer optometry students and lecturers from around the world helped to run the first Opening Eyes programme in the United Kingdom at Cardiff 2001 Special Olympics last week. More than 200...
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Whistleblowers
Disability code 'lacking' A blind academic has accused Cambridge University of propagating a "desperate" environment for disabled staff. Roger Tapp, a physiologist at the university who suffers from...
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Threat to planned Cornish institute
Legal wrangles and soaring construction costs are threatening plans for a university in Cornwall. A student prospectus for the Combined Universities of Cornwall project has just been launched, but...
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Analysis: A sober taste of student life
Summer schools are raising the aspirations of sixth-formers. Alison Utley reports. For a boiling hot week last month, Lancaster University's picturesque campus on the edge of the Lake District was...
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Glittering prizes
Beverley Naidoo , a visiting fellow at Southampton University's research and graduate school of education, has won the Carnegie Medal for children's literature for her novel The Other Side of Truth...
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On the move
Kevin Boyle , director of Essex University's Human Rights Centre, has been appointed senior adviser to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights . He will hold the post for a year from...
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What's in a name?
A desperate email has gone out from Universities UK to its members in anticipation of a host of inquiries over the summer on - eeek - higher education. It needs to know which universities have...
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Big Brother with essays
The University of Kent at Canterbury seems to have decided that associations with 24-hour surveillance, nightmare housemates and boredom relieved only by occasional pointless tasks is just the thing...
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It's a fair cop(y), gov
Covert copiers trying to avoid royalty payments could feel the strong arm of the law. The Copyright Licensing Authority has appointed a new compliance officer, Peter Knight, who spent 28 years in the...
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Oh yes you were!
Inspectors appointed by the Quality Assurance Agency to assess teaching in philosophy have criticised the QAA's failure to defend them from a THES article in which it was alleged that they operated a...