Fees protesters end sit-in and pay money
Students at Goldsmiths College ended a week-long sit-in over tuition fees last week. Eight students who received letters expelling them for non-payment have now paid their fees, or made arrangements...
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Degree course dropped as science is shunned
Staffordshire University has become the latest to drop its undergraduate pure chemistry degrees, blaming falling applications. UCAS figures showing applications up to December 15 1998, reveal a big...
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Poetry list saved by Manchester publisher
Oxford University Press says its publishing of contemporary poetry "is to be safeguarded after all" through a deal it has struck with Carcanet Press, the specialist poetry publisher in Manchester....
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Nurses call for better training and resources
Nurse training belongs in higher education, students this week told the Royal College of Nursing Congress in Harrogate. Labour wants to educate 6,000 extra nurses over the next three years and...
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Tory lord attempts to abolish fees for Scots
Former Scottish Office education minister Lord James Douglas-Hamilton is introducing a private member's bill in the House of Lords that would effectively abolish tuition fees for all Scottish...
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Blunkett announces review of TECs
THE government is to review the role that training and enterprise councils play in delivering its lifelong learning agenda. Education secretary David Blunkett told MPs on Wednesday that he wants a...
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No redundancies for QMW civil engineers
Threats of compulsory redundancies for five civil engineering staff at Queen Mary and Westfield College have been dropped. Initial plans are for three staff to go to posts elsewhere and two to stay...
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Institutions warned to watch out for the euro
Institutions must consider the possible impact of joining the European Monetary Union, the Higher Education Funding Council for England warned this week. If the UK joins EMU, prices will become...
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Enterprise budget puts cash into ideas
University research and development received a significant boost in this week's budget with measures aiding higher education institutions and the private sector. Top among Chancellor Gordon Brown's...
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Labour targets skills of 18 to 30s
Universities and colleges will open their doors to thousands more higher education students under government plans to create a high-skills workforce. Prime minister Tony Blair has called for a...
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Intellectuals fight 'dumbing down'
Government policies for expanding higher education came under fire from academics, writers and administrators at a conference on dumbing down last weekend. The conference, organised by LM magazine...
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Quality chiefs fly access kitemark
Quality chiefs are trying to scotch the perception that widening participation to higher education lowers the calibre of university students with a new "kitemarking" scheme for Access to Higher...
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The current system
The teaching quality assessment system (TQA) was designed to increase rigour when it was set up in 1995. It was to widen the net to catch failing courses, and to provide a clear early warning signal...
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A quality game where cheating is allowed?
Are teaching quality assessments pointless? In the first of a two-part series, Phil Baty looks at the evidence. The credibility of the teaching quality assessment has been shaken badly by its...
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The curse of high aspirations
Graduates are less happy in their jobs than people with fewer qualifications, according to research by Andrew Oswald and Jonathan Gardner at the University of Warwick. "Those with more schooling and...