Teaching offers path to promotion
Universities as diverse as Durham and Nottingham Trent are devising new methods of promoting academics on the basis of their teaching records. Phil Knott, a law professor at Nottingham Trent...
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Gwent troubled
Labour MP Llew Smith has called for the board of Gwent Tertiary College to be sacked over alleged mishandling of European Social Fund grants. The college could be forced to pay back Pounds 1 million...
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Franchises panned
MPs attacked the quality and value of franchised further education at an evidence session for the select committee inquiry into further education funding this week. Committee chair, Labour MP...
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Inspectors' first sting
North Area College has become the first casualty of the Further Education Funding Council's new inspection regime, which allows more self-assessment. The Manchester sixth-form college was found to...
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Place at the table
It would be "unacceptable" if further education were not properly represented on each of the nine new regional development agencies, the Further Education Funding Council has told the government in...
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Certificate for all
Teachers, educationists and employers have wholeheartedly backed proposals for an "overarching certificate" with compulsory key skills for 16 to 19-year-olds. The results of the government's...
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Offices of trust that must not be abused
Further education has been told to clean up its act. Phil Baty reports Further education leaders will ruin an unprecedented opportunity to put the sector at the heart of the "lifelong learning...
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Business brain spin-off
MANY university spin-off companies are little better at using their intellectual capital than small to medium firms, an Anglia Polytechnic University study reports. The findings are based on a survey...
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Fender braves MPs' fire over building bills
THE gentlemanly world of ivory towers came under MPs' fire this week for sloppiness and complacency in the management of university building projects. Funding council chief Brian Fender sat alone to...
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Pakistani loses case of sex-race job bias
A MALE Pakistani research fellow at Edinburgh University did not suffer race and sex discrimination when he failed to win a teaching post, an industrial tribunal has ruled. Mohammad Waqar Raza...
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Suitors vie for Bristol law course
DE MONTFORT University is bidding to take over Bristol University's faltering legal practice course. The five-year-old course was expected to expand from 100 to 150 places and pay for itself within...
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Women rise in politics' ranks
GENDER gaps are closing among academic political scientists, a new study has shown. The latest Survey of the Profession by the Political Studies Association shows that, while just over 80 per cent of...
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Top group in top-up threat
The position of this autumn's university applicants is confused by the legal and political situation on fees BRITAIN's top universities may consider top-up fees if the government restricts their...
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Charges blamed for Scots applications drop
The position of this autumn's university applicants is confused by the legal and political situation on fees THE government's student support changes are being widely blamed for Scotland's 6.1 per...
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Dearing under fire from dons
The position of this autumn's university applicants is confused by the legal and political situation on fees "SUPERFICIAL", "cavalier" and "ignorance" are just three words applied to the Dearing...