Project to tempt talented foreigners gets Pounds 11m
All four UK higher education funding bodies have agreed to continue funding the Overseas Research Students Awards Scheme designed to attract the best research students from abroad. They will...
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Excluded RAE lecturer sues Westminster
A LINGUIST has won the right to take Westminster University to an industrial tribunal over claims that it unlawfully discriminated against him by withholding his work from the research assessment...
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Closer higher education and TEC links needed
Higher education institutions should be working in closer partnership with their local Training and Enterprise Councils, a report from the Higher Education Funding Council and Department for...
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Ex-editor to take over at Kingston
FORMER THES editor Peter Scott has been appointed as the next vice chancellor of Kingston University. Professor Scott's appointment was confirmed by governors on Monday afternoon. He will succeed...
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Is ET on Europa?
Julia Hinde reports from the annual American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Seattle Scientists looking for extra-terrestrial life are turning their attentions to Jupiter's moon...
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Sector fears Shephard's course intrusion
The new teacher training national curriculum is not only an inappropriate electioneering ploy but an intrusion into the autonomy of higher education, vice chancellors, principals and higher education...
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Students see red over green masters
FOUR GRADUATES are suing the Victoria University of Wellington over a masters course they believe was substandard. The claim, filed in the High Court last November, relates to an MA (applied)...
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Belfast call to go alone
NORTHERN Ireland needs its own strategic development plan for higher education backed up by separate funding, Sir Ron Dearing was told this week. Sir Ron was chairing a one-day conference in Belfast...
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Libraries prepare for digital century
Public libraries should prepare to help people get to grips with the digital revolution, the Government declared this week. In its review of public library policy for England, the Department of...
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Strong words expected on full-time fees
A GRADUATE tax system and some version of ߣߣÊÓƵ's Higher Education Contribution Scheme are options that the Dearing committee is exploring to raise higher education funding, according to a...
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Graduate bulge strains law
THE LAW SOCIETY has echoed Government concerns over an oversupply of graduates. The society says it is worried that undergraduate courses have "expanded enormously in recent years without sufficient...
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Queen's University of Belfast's outreach centre in Armagh
(Photograph) - Reaching out: Gary Sloan, programme director, stands outside Queen's University of Belfast's outreach centre in Armagh, which was formally opened by Sir Ron Dearing this week. The...
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Sutherland to head teacher training probe
SIR Stewart Sutherland, principal and vice chancellor of the University of Edinburgh, is to head a study of teacher training to advise the Dearing committee on the contribution made by higher...
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Cash crisis hits books
STUDENTS face restricted access to the University of London library because of a subscription cash crisis. Subscriptions from constituent colleges and institutes cannot sustain current, let alone...
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Scots raise standard
Conspiracy theorists are beginning to worry that the Scots may have forced Sir Ron Dearing's hand over concerns about standards in higher education. The decision by the Scottish Higher Education...