Slavonic school to stay put after UCL merger
The School of Slavonic and East European Studies will stay at its Bloomsbury site and retain its name after merger with University College London. These are two conditions out of 24 approved by SSEES...
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Natfhe calls on MPs in search for salary data
Natfhe has called on the Public Accounts Committee to investigate provision of data on lecturers' pay. In a letter to MP David Davis, chair of the committee, Tom Wilson, head of Natfhe's universities...
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Drinks all round for Coca-Cola graduates
The first students on Coca-Cola's degree in business and management have graduated. Staff from Coca-Cola's sales department studied for the bespoke degrees part-time over four years. The degree,...
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Call to get tough on sex bias
An average female academic in a UK university will earn between four and five years less salary than an equivalent man working the same number of years between starting and retiring, according to...
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Women opt for postgrad diplomas
Women may be finding it harder than men to gain professorships because they are less likely to aim for the most prestigious postgraduate qualifications, a Westminster University study suggests. Men...
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V-cs campaign for paid growth
Vice-chancellors are preparing to campaign for the resumption of funded higher education growth. They are commissioning independent research to support the case for more taxpayers' money to be spent...
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College in disarray
'Inspectors gave the college the worst possible inspection grades in one of the sector's worst-ever reports'. College inspectors have attacked a "failure to account for public funds" at Matthew...
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MP distances himself from failing Bilston
Labour MP Dennis Turner is standing firm as chairman of the all-party parliamentary group for further education, despite a report this week that implicates him in a severe college crisis. Mr Turner,...
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Ethnic recruitment is 'cavalier'
Prestigious London higher education institutions are showing a "cavalier" attitude to ethnic minority recruitment, according to the author of a major study into London skills needs. The study, to be...
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Racism rife in nursing
Lecturers' failure to challenge racist attitudes and their lack of cultural knowledge often upsets and discourages Asian students from pursuing careers in nursing and other health-related jobs,...
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Medical schools
Medical schools are expected to start publishing annual details of their admissions procedures next year, including a breakdown of applicants and admissions by ethnicity, writes Julia Hinde. The...
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Opposition to asylum controls grows
Tens of thousands of international students could be deterred from studying in Britain as a result of "racist" new immigration and asylum controls, student leaders, lecturers and vice- chancellors...
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Colleges struggle to meet New Deal training demands
Further education colleges are struggling to meet the demands of chancellor Gordon Brown's vision of a "high-skill economy", researchers claimed this week. Many colleges have been unable to adjust...
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Unions, bosses talking again - but not about hours
The dispute between further education employers and unions over contracts, which hit its seventh anniversary this week, is over. Members of lecturers' union Natfhe agreed at an emergency weekend...
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Joy at FE funding round
All but 4 per cent of colleges will get more funding next year in one of the best ever further education funding settlements. Provisional funding allocations for 1999-2000 released this week by the...