Ashworth the player seeks fresh pitch
The THES called him "The vice chancellor who personified the new entrepreneurial spirit of higher education in the 1980s". But the latter part of this decade may find John Ashworth out of higher...
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The devil we may not know
(Photograph) - The devil we may not know: Robocop is not an image usually associated with Old Nick, but some detect in his high-tech protruberances vestiges of the talons and torments of medieval...
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Vcs fight on funding
Vice chancellors are to campaign for a change in the funding basis for higher education following the cuts imposed in the budget. Last week members of the main committee of the Committee of Vice...
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Banks like to Learn
Commercial banks and policy makers have expressed an interest a Learning Bank, an idea which is being considered by the Labour Party. A discussion paper which describes how a Learning Bank might...
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Gagging clause under fire
A confidentiality clause in the contract the Higher Education Funding Council for England offers to quality assessors is to be submitted as evidence to the Nolan inquiry on standards in public life....
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Final demand
(Photograph) - University of London staff last week presented their employer with a demand for Pounds 150 each. Unions MSF, Unison and the Association of University Teachers say that the London...
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Pounds 4m carrot dangled for good teaching
A Pounds 4 million funding programme aimed at rewarding teaching quality has got the go-ahead from the Higher Education Funding Council for England. Seen as a possible stalking horse for a teaching...
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Welsh online
All Welsh further education colleges will be on the JANET academic superhighway by the middle of next year, according to the Further Education Funding Council for Wales.
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Mike Laugharne
Mike Laugharne is head of quality assessment division at the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales, not England as we reported last week.
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Foresight fever
Bids in the first round of the Foresight Challenge competition have surprised the Office of Science and Technology by reaching more than 500 in number. Foresight Challenge, a competition aimed at...
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Teacher trawl
The Teacher Training Agency has offered Pounds 10 million to universities and colleges to induce them to recruit more trainee teachers in shortage subjects such as mathematics, modern languages and...
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A level demise
A levels will not be the main route to higher level qualifications in the future, the National Advisory Council for Education and Training Targets has predicted. It calls for more flexible...
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Safety risk closes Belfast job centre
Belfast Institute of Further and Higher Education has shut one of its buildings because of health and safety fears. The closure of the Jobs Skills Centre came as a report revealed many of the...
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Contract wrangle
The governing body of Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen was this week to decide whether to introduce a new contract with longer working hours and shorter annual holidays for appointments made from...
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Part-timers turn to Europe
Thousands of part-time lecturers who had their hopes of backdated pension claims dashed at an industrial tribunal in Birmingham last week are to take their case to Europe via the Employment Appeals...