Doubts cast on 'dog's dinner' post-16 bill
Serious doubts were raised this week over the government's blueprint for post-16 education. Both the Liberal Democrats and college principals cast doubt on the proposed funding and planning shake-up...
Search
-
-
Blunkett hints at big RAE changes
Education secretary David Blunkett has hinted in a lecture to social scientists that he would like to see widespread changes to the research assessment exercise. Speaking at an event arranged by the...
-
Nicol Stephen praises academic research
Nicol Stephen, Scotland's deputy minister for enterprise and lifelong learning, has praised academic research as the crucial underpinning for government policy, writes Olga Wojtas. He was delivering...
-
Labour to dodge top NUS face-off
No Labour candidate is to stand for election as president of the National Union of Students for the first time since the party started to put up candidates 18 years ago. Andrew Pakes, the current NUS...
-
Lord McIntosh on Scottish fee arrangements
Lord McIntosh of Haringey, government spokesman in the House of Lords, has denied that students in Scotland who come from elsewhere in the United Kingdom are suffering discrimination over fees. In...
-
Warwick privatisation fears
Overseas and postgraduate students at the University of Warwick may be asked to pay "market-sensitive" tuition fees next year, prompting warnings from the students' union of creeping privatisation,...
-
Farren keeps fees review alive
Northern Ireland further and higher education minister Sean Farren yesterday announced a review of student finance as the province's fledgling executive and assembly faced suspension, writes Olga...
-
Student nurse strike threat
Student nurses are threatening a Valentine's Day strike in protest at plans to evict them from their homes, which overlook the Millennium Dome. Unison, their union, called for an inquiry into housing...
-
Court hears 'vindictive' claim
Nottingham University was accused last week of "vindictiveness" for its pursuit of IVF pioneer Simon Fishel through a bitter High Court trial. The university is suing Dr Fishel for Pounds 400,000,...
-
Dispute over rent reaches deadlock
Beleagured students take action fees and rent and fear a privatised future. Cambridge University is owed over Pounds 600,000 from students withholding their rent payments because increases in...
-
State scientists adjust results
One in three scientists working in government or recently privatised labs has been asked to tailor research findings, according to a trade union survey. Some 30 per cent of respondents said they had...
-
It's good to talk, says new guide
For more students to get top jobs, universities' and employers' representatives must better articulate what they want from each other. That is the recommendation of a guide to labour-market...
-
East Midlands colleges in crisis
College funding chiefs may not be able to meet their legal duty to ensure "adequate and sufficient" provision in the East Midlands as the region's colleges suffer financial crises. The Further...
-
New book on college scandals
The vast majority of the scandals that have so badly damaged the college sector were caused by government policy and a flawed funding methodology, a new book will claim. "Most of the reasons why...
-
Leicester recants
Leicester University has withdrawn a "trumped-up" formal disciplinary warning against whistleblower Andrew Colman, following The THES's reports that colleagues think he is being victimised. Dr Colman...