Britain is urged to adopt US Sats
Top universities are being urged to pilot American-style Scholastic Assessment Tests after evidence that they increase academic opportunities for bright students from poor backgrounds. The Sutton...
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College libraries snub pricey online journal
University libraries are spurning the electronic version of the prestigious scientific journal Nature because of the cost and its delayed news content. At least 14 United Kingdom universities have...
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Students' anger over grant rules
Angry trainee teachers have claimed that government funding promises are not all that they appear to be. A recent campaign advertised grants of up to £7,500 for those training to teach secondary...
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V-cs look at reforming links
Vice-chancellors are to look at ways to revolutionise collaboration and how it could affect the governance of universities and colleges, at today's Universities UK meeting in Newcastle. UUK's longer-...
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Lecturers threaten to strike over cuts
Luton University is facing strike action and a national academic boycott as the full extent of its restructuring plans emerge, writes Phil Baty. Natfhe, the lecturers union, has warned that Luton has...
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TQA devalued by grade rises
The teaching quality assessment exercise has been rendered all but meaningless by grade inflation, gamesmanship and the rise of inspectors' "cartels", experts have claimed. Analysis of 665 teaching...
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Exeter takes the TTA to task
The University of Exeter has started court proceedings against the Teacher Training Agency after it threatened to withdraw its accreditation of the university. Exeter is applying to the High Court...
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Market force will better us, says don
Higher education would be more efficient if universities were freed from state control to adapt course supply to the demands of fee-paying students, a leading economist has claimed. Nick Barr, of the...
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Students square up for ideas property battle
Cambridge University students are set for a battle over their intellectual property. Students fear that the university intends to follow Oxford in claiming the fruits of any intellectual property...
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Whistleblowers: Ulster head under fire
Training for senior staff has been recommended at Ulster's North East Institute, after an internal investigation into a management breakdown. A report for governors into management at the Ballymena-...
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Analysis: Grants to research elite on the slide
Three of the top four research institutions will receive less in next year's funding allocations from Hefce. Alison Goddard reports. The leading research universities will get less grant money next...
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Student distress burdens tutors
More than a quarter of personal tutors have encountered students with "severe" or "life-threatening" problems in the past five years, according to a survey carried out by Hull University academics....
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Don's Diary
June 1999 Notice rise in the number of conversations about reading groups and references to them in newspapers. To find out more, I advertise and send out questionnaires. Start to grasp importance of...
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Glittering prizes
The University of North London has conferred honorary degrees on: Jane Lane , formerly of the education department in the Commission for Racial Equality; footballer Ian Wright ; Lord Clinton-Davies...
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In the news: Jim Scudamore
It has been a tough week for Jim Scudamore, chief veterinary officer at the Ministry for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. The 56-year-old University of Liverpool graduate, who is responsible for...