Luton's courses must pay their way
Luton University is drawing up radical survival plans under which it will slash traditional academic disciplines in favour of more popular vocational courses. Politics, history, sociology, English,...
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Whistleblowers: Minority medics probe
Exam failure rates for ethnic minority students at Sheffield University are being investigated by the Commission for Racial Equality. The commission was alerted to allegations of race discrimination...
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Elite bias threatens UK research base
Further concentration of government research funds in top universities will damage Britain's research base, a Royal Society working group has warned. In a report sent to the Higher Education Funding...
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AoC in threat to audit control
College heads fear the government is planning to take responsibility for financial checks out of their hands, despite funding chiefs dropping the proposal in the face of protests. The Association of...
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QAA rules tally climbs to 168
The number of rules that institutions must now conform to under the quality assurance framework has been raised to 168 with the publication of ten new rules in the ninth code of practice. The number...
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Don's Diary
Monday Arrive in Arusha in northern Tanzania to conduct a survey of high mountain forest catchments in an area suffering from a two-year drought. Meet with Richard Minja, a long-time colleague....
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On the move
Pam Ackroyd , formerly of the University of Central Lancashire, has been appointed academic registrar at Goldsmiths College , London. Sir Peter Hall has been appointed director of the Institute of...
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Glittering prizes
Roger Coleman , co-director of the Helen Hamlyn Research Centre, and Paul Ewing , of the department of mechanical engineering at Imperial College, London, have won Royal College of Art Innovation in...
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In the news: David Alton
David Alton, a man who has been described variously as "the Cliff Richard of political life" and as "limp and clammy as a flannel dipped in holy water", this week failed in another of his attempts to...
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A man of many talents
Goronwy Tudor Jones, of the University of Birmingham, has attracted international attention by his sheer breadth of scholarship. He has been named Renaissance Researcher of the Month in the...
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Ecoute-moi au moins
Bold claims by government ministers reached new heights when Jack McConnell, Scotland's education minister, launched the European Year of Languages at Stirling University this week. Urging fellow...
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Stick to your principals
Possibly the most contrived after-dinner joke made this week fell from the lips of Tim O'Shea, master of Birkbeck College, London. Professor O'Shea told a gathering that heads of London colleges...
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Our friends in the North
Brian Lang, former chief executive and deputy chairman of the British Library, has returned to his native Scotland as principal of St Andrews University. Earlier this week, he was musing on...
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'Sorry' won't rewrite the wrongs
A first class for a 'flawed' thesis on Holocaust revisionism has angered the Jewish community. The New Zealand Jewish community has signalled disappointment and anger at the failure of the University...
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Eyewitness: Holocaust Remembrance Day
Britain will mark its first Holocaust Memorial Day with a televised ceremony in central London tomorrow. Leading political, religious and community figures are expected to attend the ceremony. The...