Warwick is five-star for computer science
LAST week's edition of The THES omitted Warwick University from the list of universities that achieved a five-star rating incomputer science in the research assessment exercise. Heriot-Watt...
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Vocational courses lose candidates
FEWER than half of advanced GNVQ exam candidates completed the course this year, the Joint Council of National Awarding Bodies announced this week. The completion-rate for the "vocational A-level"...
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Literary types equipped for life
In the third of our series on degrees we look at what students can expect from ancient and modern subjects THEY MAY be more career-minded these days but students have never lost their love of...
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Women flock to master the mind
In the third of our series on degrees we look at what students can expect from ancient and modern subjects WHEN IT comes to studying human behaviour, women are queuing at university doors to...
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Central control looms
Whitehall moves to centralise funding could threaten university independence, it emerged this week. Tuition fees could turn out to be little more than a tax on students that would put more money in...
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Court rules Cambridge jobs policy 'unfair'
Cambridge University has suffered a defeat in the High Court at the hands of lecturer Gill Evans, who claims the university's procedures for promoting academic staff are "unfair and secretive". The...
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NUS torn apart by leadership's response to fees
Confusion over tuition fees and the axing of grants is splitting the National Union of Students, writes Alan Thomson. Student unions across the country say the NUS's response to the Government's...
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Car chief heads Training Standards Council
VAUXHALL Motors boss Nick Reilly will chair the Government's new Training Standards Council. The council, set up to investigate bad practice and fraud in public-funded training, will begin...
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Edinburgh researcher alleges discrimination
A RESEARCHER in Edinburgh University's department of medical microbiology has accused the university of racial and sex discrimination after a lecturing post went to a female doctor from Bangladesh....
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Setback for union in supply agency fight
LECTURERS' union Natfhe has suffered a setback in its battle against the use of supply lecturers by colleges after an industrialtribunal last week ruled against lecturer Debra Allonby. She claimed...
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Manchester genes a hit with shoppers
MORE THAN 6,000 people visited Britain's first Gene Shop - the brainchild of a Manchester University lecturer - in the six months since it opened. The shop at Manchester Airport is a joint venture...
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Teacher Training Agency to give evidence
THE COMMONS education and employment select committee will hear evidence from the Teacher Training Agency next month for the second inquiry into teacher recruitment and retention this year. The...
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Apprentices fail to progress to higher education
ALTHOUGH more than 100,000 young people have signed up for modern apprenticeships in the two years since their introduction, few trainees are using their qualifications to progress to higher...
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Rewards for Internet bright sparks
AN AWARD scheme has been launched by the Department of Trade and Industry to reward students who create top-quality applications for the Internet. The Pounds 10,000 Young Information Society...
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Oswald takes up primary health care joint chair
A CAMBRIDGE University academic is to take up a joint chair supported by the universities of Newcastle and Teesside and the Tees health Authority. Nigel Oswald, director of general practice teaching...