'Amateurish' UK must widen access for poor
Universities must significantly increase their intake of poorer students, according to a "watershed" report on access to be published this autumn. The Commons' education sub-committee report, due in...
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Staff are targeted as King's cuts cost
King's College London is expected to shed more than 300 staff in its attempt to save up to Pounds 11 million. The cuts will be made across the board despite balanced books and the sale of some prime...
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Forgo public funds, v-c tells top-up elite
The row over top-up fees escalated this week as the vice-chancellor of Teesside University called for elite institutions to forgo their public funding. In an outspoken attack, Derek Fraser set...
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Greenaway: Natfhe issues a warning
All but a tiny minority of elite universities would see funding cuts if top-up fees were introduced, and one in five universities might close, lecturers' union Natfhe has warned, writes Phil Baty. In...
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Report prompts UHI chief to resign
Brian Duffield, chief executive of the University of the Highlands and Islands project, resigned this week, hours before UHI Foundation members received a report into alleged complaints of...
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Overhaul decreed for a wasteful system
Consultants say Pounds 250 million accountability regime is 'poor value for money' The accountability regime is to be completely overhauled after a report published this week found "the current...
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Choose in haste, drop out in haste
Why are some universities more successful at hanging on to students than others? Alison Goddard reports. The coming weeks are crucial for potential students. The scramble for places during clearing...
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Reports aid case for more money
The accountability review - which shows that the costs of administering any extra funding can be disproportionate to the extra money awarded - is the first of three evaluations of the sector to...
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Higher Education Funding Council
A series of burdens on universities and colleges have been generated by weaknesses in the way the funding council fulfils its various roles, the report says. The lack of a direct link between funding...
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Research assessment exercise
The RAE encourages "inappropriate behaviour" - such as tactically switching research staff between departments to optimise RAE scores and producing more but shorter articles for publication, rather...
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Quality Assurance Agency
A single subject review visit by the QAA can produce enough paperwork to fill two skips. In one department, a photocopier was worn out by paperwork. The report confirms that the cost of conforming to...
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Universities could rival big business in global market
If universities were set free in the market to pursue their own destinies, what would happen? Tony Dickson, deputy vice-chancellor of Northumbria University, thinks "it's high time we found out". "...
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QAA casts doubt on equity at Reading
Reading University cannot guarantee that its students are treated fairly and equally, say quality chiefs. Faculties calculate degree classifications differently and there are too few safeguards...
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Surrey's unit aims to boost job skills
A skills unit to boost the employability of students graduating from the University of Surrey will be launched in October. Penny Burden, skills unit manager at the University of Surrey, said that...
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Calls for teaching incentives
Good science and technology graduates should be encouraged to become teachers through the use of financial incentives, such as free tuition and cancelled graduate debts, according to Ron Oxburgh,...