I'm the future, fly me
(Photograph) - An extensive British canal network was one of the winning solutions for transport problems proposed by students this week as part of the European Week for Scientific and Technological...
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Friction over pay fraction
The Association of University Teachers could take legal action if universities dock the pay of academics who took part in last week's strike by 1/260th instead of 1/365th. The Universities and...
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Random explosion
Radical changes in the student profile over recent years have been haphazard and variable, according to the the Institute of Employment Studies annual graduate review. Expansion has allowed access by...
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Off the ball
Have the rugby authorities invited the wrong Oxford university to play in the annual Twickenham bash against Cambridge? Oxford Brookes alumni (Tim Rodber and Andy Gomarsall) scored more tries in...
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Ms Docs squashed
Women seeking senior positions in medical schools are victims of discrimination, according to Joe Collier of St George's Hospital Medical School in this week's Lancet. The proportion of university-...
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Unwellcome news
The Wellcome Trust is threatening to take funds out of UK research projects and send them abroad if the Government levies an overhead charge for academic biomedical research. In its submission to...
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Respond to students, urge new HEQC guidelines
Revised Higher Education Quality Council guidelines for universities and colleges on quality assurance and control call on institutions to respond effectively to the expectations detailed in various...
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Higher Education Quality Council
The Higher Education Quality Council has attacked a Scottish review of teaching quality assessment for its comments on academic quality audit, writes Olga Wojtas. The Miller review group, set up...
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TTA hits out at single body idea
The Teacher Training Agency has blasted detailed proposals for the creation of a new single higher education quality body. It is not convinced by the plans which would knit together funding council...
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LSE chooses Giddens
CAMBRIDGE sociology professor Anthony Giddens is to be the new director of the London School of Economics, plunging him into the controversial debate over tuition fees for home undergraduates....
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Principals rush to clarify early retirement changes
SENIOR college staff hoping for early retirement are racing to find out their rights before changes in pension arrangements come into force. The Association for College Management has already...
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New v-cs lambaste 'pensions snatch'
VICE CHANCELLORS of new universities claim that Government pension proposals will handicap the former polytechnic sector in its attempts to cope with funding cuts. One leading vice chancellor...
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NVQs suffer a skills blow
NEARLY 40 per cent of assessors of national vocational qualifications admit to passing sub-standard students, according to a survey out this week. The finding is a big blow to the Government's...
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Director's daughters on Soton petition
SOUTHAMPTON Institute director, David Leyland, ordered an investigation into complaints from students, including two of his daughters, about "unfair marking" on their course at the institute, it...
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CVCP counsel favours top-up fee wait
LEGAL advice to be presented to the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals next week is likely to rule out top-up fees for 1997. The CVCP sought advice because of concerns about the position of...