Plea for cash to tackle racism
Universities are under mounting political pressure to tackle racism, yet vice-chancellors are failing to appreciate this, according to David Triesman, general secretary of the Association of...
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Colleges to play key role in regeneration
Universities and further education colleges in the Midlands have been called upon to play a key role in regenerating the region in the wake of BMW's decision to offload Birmingham-based Rover cars....
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FEFC set to ignore its ombudsman
College funding chiefs were set to defy their ombudsman this week, with a plan to reject his recommendation that they apologise for a "breach of natural justice". John Bevan, the Further Education...
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Arts board to review museum funding
The Arts and Humanities Re- search Board has launched a review of its Pounds 9 million annual funding scheme for university museums and galleries, a move that is likely to reveal chronic underfunding...
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Learning and skills bill sails into storm
The learning and skills bill has sailed through its report stage in the House of Lords and straight into a storm over the anti-homosexuality rule section 28. It took just two days for the 85-page,...
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Parents' fees case collapses in court
A High Court judge dealt a serious blow to a bankrupt couple when he refused to intervene in their case against the Department for Education and Employment over their children's tuition fees. Lawyers...
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Audit Office raps Ulster over credit card scheme
A corporate credit card scheme for senior staff at the University of Ulster has been severely criticised by the Northern Ireland Audit Office. It said there had been a "surprising degree of laxity"...
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Nord Anglia race finding
The millionaire entrepreneur leading the government's private education revolution, Kevin McNeany, encouraged and instigated race discrimination, an employment tribunal found. Mr McNeany's company,...
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Blunkett calls for Derby investigation
Education secretary David Blunkett has asked the Quality Assurance Agency to investigate revelations in The THES that Derby University enrolled students to its courses in Israel without minimum entry...
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Don's diary
Monday A bright morning in New Cross, London. Since September I have been acting head of the Centre for Urban and Community Research. The centre is based in an ornate old building in Laurie Grove...
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Poet in the dock
Dreaming spires apart, rarely does a university building inspire poetic feelings. But the University of East London's new Docklands campus has had just this effect on Patrick Hodgkinson, emeritus...
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Interesting websites
Oxford University has proudly announced the 11th spin-off company in two years from its commercial arm, Isis Innovation. The company, called ThirdPhase Limited, is developing a system for safely...
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Winning by a whisker?
A surprise candidate in the race for London mayor? Alan Carr, president of the Association of University Teachers, was pleased to greet both familiar and unfamiliar faces at the AUT's Scottish...
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Kumar Bhattacharyya
The success of Kumar Bhattacharyya's Warwick Manufacturing Group has been the envy of universities across the country. Started by Professor Bhattacharyya 20 years ago, with himself as the only...
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On the move
Nick Stuart, director general of the employment, lifelong learning and international directorate at the Department for Education and Employment, is to head a new lifelong learning directorate,...