Credits turn burger flips into work fillips
Flipping burgers could become a positive part of a student's curriculum vitae under plans to accredit work experience. Crac, the Careers Research and Advisory Centre, is to pilot a scheme in 15...
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Mr Randall points out the 'fallible'
Former quality supremo John Randall has listed a catalogue of weaknesses threatening standards at some of Britain's top universities. When he resigned as chief executive of the Quality Assurance...
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Scots loans found to have sting in the tail
Scotland's post-Cubie student support system is not as rosy as generally believed, with both poorer and better-off students facing financial hardship this year. The warning came from John Martin,...
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Student jobs may be cause of failure
Students with term-time jobs are more likely to fail their degree than those who are not employed, according to a large survey of students. Researchers from Northumbria University discovered that...
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Reality show
Big Brother contestant Helen Adams joined education and skills secretary Estelle Morris at Villa Park to launch a campaign encouraging adults to 'Get On' to basic skills courses. Get On is the...
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Dem bones
Cambridge University palaeontologist Leslie Noe examines a rib bone from a Jurassic crocodile, a Steneosaurus, excavated from a site near Ely.
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Access plan that totally backfired
Government policy aimed at widening participation has had the opposite effect. Instead of raising poorer youngsters' aspirations, it has deepened their reluctance to consider studying for a degree,...
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Analysis: Stretched system set to snap?
Vice-chancellors are meeting next week to decide the future of a sector pulled in different directions by a new Labour government that wants universities to do it all. UK higher education is not "fit...
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Student loans: godsend for rich
The Labour government has got almost everything wrong in the changes it has made to higher education and failed to put right the previous government's mistakes, according to one of the government's...
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Analysis: 'I've a deck chair in physics'
Harriet Swain finds that academics at summer conferences are just as likely to pack swimming trunks as a trunk full of books. It is a perfect blue-skied Venetian morning in August and you have just...
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Don's Diary
April The survey crew assembles on the dive boat and makes the long ocean run from Florida to Haiti. The time is spent poring over old charts and accounts of the wreck. As we enter the Gulf of Gonave...
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Glittering prizes
The University of Birmingham has awarded honorary degrees to mark the 50th anniversary of its Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon. It awarded them to: John Brown, professor of theatre,...
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In the news: Howard Glennerster
Howard Glennerster hit the headlines this week when he attacked the Labour government's spending record on higher education. Despite prime minister Tony Blair's electoral platform of "education,...
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On the move
Julie Grant, senior teacher in charge of staff development at the Howard School in Gillingham, Kent, has been appointed head of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers. The University of London has...
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Button those lips
What is the meaning of the string of buttons on the cover of this week's Universities UK publication, Patterns of Higher Education Institutions in the UK? Could it be a comment on the feasting...