Scots split over fees question
The Scottish people do not overwhelmingly believe in the principle of free higher education, a leading education expert has revealed. The Scottish Liberal Democrat, Conservative and National parties...
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CBI call to replace 'costly' RAE
Captains of industry have called for a radical overhaul of the research assessment exercise. The RAE's method of assessing and grading departments should be replaced with one that focuses instead on...
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Birthday cards used to attract pupils to universities
A group of Scottish universities that plans to use birthday cards to help widen access has won Pounds 500,000 from the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council. SHEFC has made wider participation a...
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Cambridge flouts concordat
Cambridge University is defying a sector-wide concordat by persisting with a policy to force its non-permanent research staff to waive their rights to statutory redundancy payments. The use of waiver...
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TVU action plan may need more cash
Thames Valley University may need more cash from the funding council for a major restructuring programme that will tap into the lucrative business market. Vice-chancellor Ken Barker has informally...
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Worldbeaters 'pool resources'
Universities should become more like private sector companies, axeing weaker courses and focusing on their strengths, vice-chancellors are to be told. To compete successfully in increasingly...
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City firms plan law courses
The Law Society has raised questions about the quality of university law degrees after complaints from some law firms that trainees know too little about legal research. Eight city law firms are now...
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Don's Diary
Monday The Monday after Christmas. Go into the Oregon Research Institute (Eugene, Oregon, United States) for the last time. It has been a productive sabbatical. All my paper writing is done for the...
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How prior is prior?
While, after Cubie, students anticipate the financial benefits of being Scottish, graduates may disagree. Cubie's proposal for a "Scottish graduate endowment foundation" includes the suggestion that...
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Like father, like son
Forthright as he is, Vernon Bogdanor, experienced broadcaster and professor of government at Oxford University, is unlikely to have won every argument at home over the holiday period. His son, Adam,...
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Taken at their word
Wags at the Quality Assurance Agency have discovered the worldwide web's anagram site and enjoyed a little wordplay. Hence "the research assessment exercise", becomes "cheers! merest existence...
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Just another statistic
Never let it be said that the National Union of Students has its finger off the pulse. In a week when he had to deal with the aftermath of Cubie and a submission to the government select committee on...
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On the move
Sir John Knebs, Royal Society research professor in the University of Oxford's zoology department, has been appointed chairman of the new Food Standards Agency. Chief executive will be Geoffrey...
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Glittering prizes
Bhikhu Parekh, professor of political theory at the University of Hull, was given the BBC's special lifetime achievement award in the Asian Success, Innovation and Achievement Awards for 1999. The...
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Correction
In the New Year's Honours, Andrew Wiles received a KBE not an OBE as we said last week. Omitted from our list were: Sally Kuenssberg, a part time lecturer at the University of Glasgow, who received a...