Students protest about review
Students at the University of Durham occupied the library this week in protest at possible departmental closures as part of the university's review of academic and administrative operations. The...
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Welsh plan gets mixed response
Higher education leaders in Wales have given a mixed response to Welsh Assembly proposals for reorganisation of the sector. Some vice-chancellors welcomed the news that the assembly planned to raise...
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Chiefs outline strict sanctions
Further education funding chiefs have spelled out exactly when they would intervene in the management of a "failing" college and when closure would be a possibility. Guidelines published by the...
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'Excellence in colleges requires funds'
The principal of a "financially weak" college that has gained top-quality grades from Ofsted inspectors has warned that excellence in further education will be impossible without significantly better...
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QAA report fingers FE
All 11 courses judged by inspectors to be failing last year were degree and diploma courses offered by five colleges of further education, the annual report of the Quality Assurance Agency has...
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Rights tribunal decision
Universities will not receive indemnity if they infringe the copyrights of authors who have excluded themselves from the Copyright Licensing Agency's licence scheme. At the final hearing of the...
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Have attitudes changed?
Peer observation of teaching is being held up as the next big quality tool. But will staff want to score one another? The THES reports. I recently studied the introduction of peer observation in...
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Judging teaching in FE
Peer observation of teaching is being held up as the next big quality tool. But will staff want to score one another? The THES reports. Susan Orr, teaching and learning coordinator at the London...
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Analysis: Watching me watching you
Peer observation of teaching is being held up as the next big quality tool. But will staff want to score one another? The THES reports. Universities anxious to convince inspectors that their teaching...
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Whistleblowers: Conflict of interest row over councils contract
'Mr Pullan is said to be concerned that while employed as the research councils' coordinator, Dr Metcalfe played a lead role in drawing up the CRAC's bid for the new contract' Allegations of a...
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Cambridge hunts chief to 'take grip on governance'
Cambridge University has begun the hunt for a new leader who will determine whether the ancient university can carry on competing with the global elite. This week the university set up an advisory...
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VLT eyes up a dark horse
Astronomers have been able to catch a glimpse of the most distant galactic neighbourhood discovered by taking a peek through a gravitational "porthole". Their findings are helping to illuminate what...
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Stem cell cure works on mice
Scientists have delivered the first therapeutic cloning gene therapy in work that further raises the prospect of the controversial technology sparking a revolution in medicine. The experiment was...
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Housing to attract staff
Subsidised housing for university staff is being considered by Brunel University in a bid to attract the best recruits. Steven Schwartz, who became vice-chancellor last week, wants to develop...
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'Increase clout of regional authority'
Learning and skills should become the responsibility of beefed-up regional governments, according to a Liberal Democrat blueprint for devolution in England. Party members, who met in Manchester at...