Dome bid gets support from Imperial and OU
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine and the Open University are supporting the bid by the Legacy Consortium to buy the Millennium Dome and convert it into a high-tech science park....
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Cost-cutting deal averts Sheffield strike
Leaders of lecturers' unions have called off a threatened strike at Sheffield College after governors agreed a cost-saving package that avoids compulsory redundancies. At a meeting this week,...
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SOAS appoints Colin Bundy as director
The School of Oriental and African Studies has appointed Colin Bundy, vice-chancellor of the University of the Wi****ersrand, South Africa, its new director from May 2001. Headhunters Saxton...
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NYU students offered branch in London
New York University has opened an affiliated foreign study centre in London for undergraduates on pre-medicine and other science courses. The private NYU plans to send more than 100 undergraduates to...
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Coventry wine course is a best cellar
Coventry University is celebrating the popularity of its wine courses by offering students a study trip to the vineyards of France's Champagne region. Last year, nearly 100 people studied wine at the...
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Blackstone rubbishes attacks on student access
The heat was on Labour at fringe conference meetings, reports Alison Goddard The government's record on widening participation in higher education was attacked this week by Maggie Woodrow, head of...
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Colleges must plan to improve
Scotland's 47 further education colleges have been given a December deadline to produce action plans to improve the way they are run, writes Olga Wojtas. The Scottish Further Education Funding...
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SQA chiefs 'baffled' by exam result blunders
The chairman and former chief executive of the troubled Scottish Qualifications Authority have told a parliamentary inquiry that they were baffled by the crisis that left thousands of Scottish pupils...
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Union hits out at new inspectorate
Further education representatives attacked the new inspection scheme for colleges at a fringe meeting attended by lifelong learning minister Malcolm Wicks at the Labour Party conference . Prime...
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Cambridge fears grinding to a halt as system fails
Cambridge University has had to bring in emergency measures following problems with a new Pounds 8 million financial accounts system. The university has conceded that emergency procedures are...
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Report renews calls for creative learning
Calls for a radical shake-up of the education system to place creativity at the centre of all teaching were renewed last week with the relaunch of a report, writes Caroline Davis. More than a year...
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Science promotion penalties must go
Lord Sainsbury, the minister for science, has admitted that proposals calling for scientists to act as communicators and ambassadors of science need more consideration if researchers are not to be...
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What the act means for academics
Most articles of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms are incorporated into British law from October 2 under the The Human Rights Act 1998. The act...
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All their Christmases
The Further Education Funding Council has turned to students for artistic inspiration to mark its imminent demise. It has invited them to design the FEFC's final Christmas card. A college principal...
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Theft alert after 'gang' strikes
Universities and colleges have been warned to be on their guard after thieves broke into Edinburgh University and stole expensive computer hardware. The Higher Education Funding Council for England...