A joint delegation of further education college employers and unions met further and higher education minister Baroness Blackstone this week to beg for more money for colleges. It was the first time...
Some universities cannot guarantee the standard of their degrees and this will undermine plans for "light-touch" inspections, a quality assurance expert warned this week. Roger Brown, who was chief...
Liverpool John Moores University must prepare for a funding council audit while struggling with finances and possible industrial action over redundancies. The Higher Education Funding Council for...
A Conservative MP has called for tougher measures to make universities ensure student unions are keeping to the law. Introducing a debate on student unions in the House of Commons, Julian Lewis, MP...
The National Union of Students has been accused of barring attempts by a local student union to disaffiliate, in an attempt to hold on to hefty membership fees. Students at Southampton University who...
Uncertainty over the future of the visitorial system for the resolution of disputes in old universities has led the Quality Assurance Agency to concede that its long-awaited code of practice on...
Conflicts of interest, secret decision making, unaccountable leadership and poor control of public money continue to blight college management, according to a report on further education in Wales by...
Britain could soon follow the United States in a groundbreaking deal between librarians and copyright societies to make digital images of 20th-century art more widely available to universities and...
An art college principal accused Scottish funding chiefs of selling young artists and designers short, challenging the Scottish executive to recognise art and design as a higher education priority....
Dance and drama students will have the chance to join new courses leading to nationally recognised qualifications and possibly attracting financial support. The six new courses, known provisionally...
If the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts is to succeed overall, it must dare to fail on specific projects. So recommended the House of Commons select committee on science and...
Another senior academic has made false claims about prestigious academic qualifications. Kurt Ziebeck, former head of physics at Loughborough University, has been falsely describing himself as a...
Cricklade College has sacked its principal Richard Evans for "bringing the college into disrepute". But the troubled Hampshire college stands by its decision to dismiss the whistleblower who brought...
Suzi Clark, the communications chief sacked by Middlesex University after a row over freedom of speech, has settled her claim for unfair dismissal. Ms Clark fell foul of vice-chancellor Michael...
Helena Kennedy's trip to Macedonia this week in advance of the Sarajevo stability pact conference will have been a good challenge for the QC's celebrated sense of fairness. Ensuring that the British...