Medicine urged to confront race bias
Ethnic minority doctors face discrimination from the moment they apply to medical school to the day they retire, according to a report out this week from the King's Fund, an independent think-tank....
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Clerics up in arms as reverend rejected
Academics and clerics have accused the archbishop of Canterbury of bringing the Anglican faith into disrepute in a row over his power to award degrees. The church has rejected an applicant for its...
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Accounting error threatens jobs
A discrepancy in accounting systems has threatened the jobs of nearly half the staff at the University of Greenwich's Natural Resources Institute. Up to 130 of the institute's 280 staff face...
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Burning ambitions
Art student Marion Downes was devastated when her sister's Ford Fiesta containing a whole year's work was stolen as she prepared for her degree show. Any hope of retrieving the 2,000 photographs and...
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Philosophy scores add to QAA criticism
A quality assurance expert this week suggested that a "cartel" of quality inspectors was artificially bolstering the performance of philosophy departments in the Quality Assurance Agency's teaching...
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News in brief
Brunel appoints new vice-chancellor Brunel University's new vice-chancellor will be Steven Schwartz (pictured), head of Murdoch University in Perth, Western Australia. Professor Schwartz was born in...
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Spurned Bolton in QAA fury
A Quality Assurance Agency special review that denied Bolton Institute the title of university has been dismissed as "selective, unbalanced, factually inaccurate, and procedurally flawed". The attack...
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Experts fear for public health as cutbacks bite
Government scientists have warned of more public health crises on the scale of BSE or worse as a result of under-investment in research. The Institution of Professionals, Managers and Specialists has...
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Scots play down concerns over gaps in exam data
The Scottish Qualifications Authority has admitted it has some 13,000 incomplete course entries for students nine weeks before candidates are due to be sent examination results. But SQA senior...
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Inquiry lifts the lid on racism
There is "clear evidence of institutional racism" in further education colleges, an independent nationwide inquiry has found. Black people make up a tiny proportion of teaching and support staff in...
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Allies revive image of Scapa Flow wreck
The submerged history of Scapa Flow is being uncovered through a joint effort by higher education and marine technology. A survey of the warship wrecks of the German High Seas Fleet, scuttled 82...
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Analysis: Measuring up the UK's class system
Has the proportion of good degrees awarded by universities changed? Nicola Bright, Andrew Hindmarsh and Bernard Kingston examine the claim that institutions are guilty of grade inflation. Almost all...
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Why I ... believe the tide is turning against speciesism
Richard Ryder Psychologist, visiting lecturer on ethical issues and trustee of the RSPCA Speciesism is the irrational prejudice against other animals merely because they are of a different species....
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Two cheers and one big question
Welcome change is being made but it may be too late for social work education, writes Terry Philpot The lot of social work education has not been a happy or a settled one. Criticised by employers for...
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Kick your door open
Give a university place to everyone from a poor area who makes the grade, suggests Tim Leunig One year ago, chancellor Gordon Brown provoked a big row about university admissions when he said it was...