Anglia may face legal action
AT LEAST 75 final year student teachers are challenging Anglia Polytechnic University over its decision to deflate their final teaching practice grades. The students, who lodged academic appeals this...
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Proposals to change teacher training entry requirements
Proposals to change teacher training entry requirements would be an "absolute disaster" for university education departments, a lecturers union has warned. Nigel Gates, chairman of the Association of...
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Robotic welcome
(Photograph) - Robotic welcome: George Kynoch, Scottish Office minister for industry (left), has a close encounter with interactive sculpture Lautriv Chromagnon Medusa alongside its creator, Franz...
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Commons calls for law change on cloning
In its report The Cloning of Animals From Adult Cells expected this week, the House of Commons science and technology committee will call for changes in the law on human cloning, following the...
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Union calls for block on Scottish redundancies
THE Association of University Teachers Scotland has called on higher education institutions to stick to a policy of no compulsory redundancies in the wake of the Scottish Higher Education Funding...
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Don't you know that it's worse for girls?
Academics at the Institute of Education have developed a new model for assessing A level performance which shows that girls who did well at GCSE went on to gain up to around two A-level points fewer...
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Inquiry to tot up true level of grant fraud
GOVERNMENT officials are conducting an inquiry to find the true level of student grant fraud amidst reports putting false claims at more than Pounds 34 million over the last four years. The DFEE...
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Unit shows extent of research tobacco cash
A TOTAL of 269 out of 185,000 British biomedical papers published between 1988 and 1994 acknowledged support from the tobacco industry for tobacco-related research, according to Grant Lewison of the...
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Entry toughens up for engineering courses
TOUGH new entry standards for engineering degree courses could halve the number of engineering graduates, vice chancellors have warned. The revisions to the programme "Standards and Routes to...
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New industry hotline set up in Glasgow
Glasgow University and Glasgow Development Agency have unveiled a prototype hotline to industry this week. Companies will be able to identify, either from disk or the Internet, academic research and...
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Scottish action runs dry
All industrial action has ended in Scotland's colleges and new universities following staff acceptance of a 2.5 per cent pay award, with the prospect of another 0.4 per cent pending the outcome of...
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Natfhe has submitted its further education pay claim
Lecturers' union Natfhe has submitted its further education pay claim for a flat-rate increase of Pounds 30 a week and a return to a national framework which would include pay bargaining. The union...
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Deans of arts lobby Blair for council
ARTS and humanities deans are piloting a pre-election campaign for a Humanities Research Council. The Council of University Deans of Arts and Humanities is stepping up calls for a separate research...
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Dearing lists the options
Sir Ron Dearing's committee of inquiry into higher education will present the Government with a range of future funding options, Sir Ron said this week. The possibility of students contributing to...
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Risk row repaired
PURE and social scientists ended a five-year squabble and returned to debate risk at the Royal Society this week. More than 300 academics, policy makers, industrialists and members of the public...