Old ones that got away surface in Germany
Fossils of the earliest creature with a backbone, stolen from Scotland, could soon be returning after being discovered at a German university museum. Up to a dozen 430 million-year-old fossils of...
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Enrolments stalled by cost
Growth in enrolments at Welsh higher education institutions ground to a halt for all but postgraduate taught courses in 1998-99, the year fees were introduced and grants abolished. Data for 1998-99...
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Head of Ofsted 'monster' spits fire at committee of MPs
Ofsted chief inspector Chris Woodhead defended his controversial habit of commenting on education issues when he appeared before MPs this week. In often heated exchanges with MPs, he told the House...
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Threat to bursaries as bill is delayed
Scottish students risk missing out on bursaries next year because of an upheaval over the drafting of legislation on student support. The Scottish Parliament's enterprise and lifelong learning...
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Lecturers to go back to school in drive to lift standards
The government moved to raise the standards of teaching and management in further education colleges this week, announcing a compulsory professional training programme for all new lecturers and...
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Missing appeals unknown to chief
Bill Morton, acting head of the troubled Scottish Qualifications Authority, this week confessed that he had not known of its latest failure to meet deadlines, writes Olga Wojtas. The SQA has been...
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UCL students speak for UK in Berlin summit
Ten students from University College London will represent Britain at a summit in Berlin on youth and democracy in the European Union. The summit, which starts at the Freie Universitat Berlin on...
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Old guard in CVCP faces poll challenge
The Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals may have its first president from a post-1992 university. Roderick Floud, provost of London Guildhall University, is one of two candidates standing in...
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Motion for foetal cell research bill beaten
A controversial bill to extend the research uses of human foetal cells was rejected by Parliament this week, writes Alan Thomson. Liberal Democrat higher education and science spokesman Evan Harris,...
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Anti-begging plan comes under fire
A group of almost 60 social policy experts has criticised as "fundamentally misguided" a government campaign telling people not to give money to beggars. The open letter to the...
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Cambridge plans arts centre
Cambridge University is mounting an ambitious challenge to Oxford University's superiority in the arts and humanities. As the traditionally arts-dominated Oxford begins to challenge Cambridge's...
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Catholic fears at Glasgow
The head of the Catholic church in Scotland met senior Glasgow University staff last week to discuss concerns that the university's education faculty was not meeting the church's needs. Talks between...
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Following that Whitehall herd instinct
How culpable were scientists in the BSE fiasco? Steve Farrar and Caroline Davis dissect the Phillips report Close to the beginning of the BSE inquiry's 4,000-page report, it is noted: "At the heart...
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No victimisation?
Radiologist Peter Dawson was not victimised by his managers at Imperial College, London for raising the alarm about risks to patients and accounting inadequacies at Hammersmith Hospital. This is the...
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From today's UK press
FINANCIAL TIMES All new teachers at further education colleges will have to have a formal teaching qualification, the government has said THE GUARDIAN The government is seeking to speed up the...