Reports aid case for more money
The accountability review - which shows that the costs of administering any extra funding can be disproportionate to the extra money awarded - is the first of three evaluations of the sector to...
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Higher Education Funding Council
A series of burdens on universities and colleges have been generated by weaknesses in the way the funding council fulfils its various roles, the report says. The lack of a direct link between funding...
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Research assessment exercise
The RAE encourages "inappropriate behaviour" - such as tactically switching research staff between departments to optimise RAE scores and producing more but shorter articles for publication, rather...
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Quality Assurance Agency
A single subject review visit by the QAA can produce enough paperwork to fill two skips. In one department, a photocopier was worn out by paperwork. The report confirms that the cost of conforming to...
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Universities could rival big business in global market
If universities were set free in the market to pursue their own destinies, what would happen? Tony Dickson, deputy vice-chancellor of Northumbria University, thinks "it's high time we found out". "...
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QAA casts doubt on equity at Reading
Reading University cannot guarantee that its students are treated fairly and equally, say quality chiefs. Faculties calculate degree classifications differently and there are too few safeguards...
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Surrey's unit aims to boost job skills
A skills unit to boost the employability of students graduating from the University of Surrey will be launched in October. Penny Burden, skills unit manager at the University of Surrey, said that...
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Calls for teaching incentives
Good science and technology graduates should be encouraged to become teachers through the use of financial incentives, such as free tuition and cancelled graduate debts, according to Ron Oxburgh,...
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'They told me I was going to have to fight for a place'
Jan Southern took an access course at the University of Northumbria before embarking on a degree in occupational therapy and graduating with a first. She left school aged 15 to work in a bank....
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Don's Diary
Sunday On location in rural Mexico to examine an educational project encouraging students to take control of their own learning. I am part of a team of external examiners working with Conafe (...
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The survival of the fittest
South Africa's former homeland universities are still struggling post-apartheid, says Hugh Macmillan South Africa's six black and rural universities are in crisis. The bantustans, or homelands, have...
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Los Angeles
During his acceptance speech for the Democratic Party nomination, United States vice-president Al Gore pledged to fight for tax-free college savings programmes and to make most college tuition tax-...
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Bucharest
Bucharest University student union has threatened to open the new academic year with a strike unless the government raises its scholarships and hostel subsidies and offers a 50 per cent discount on...
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Top tips for preventing drop out
* Recruitment - ensure that prospective students make well-informed choices, particularly those recruited through clearing. Make sure students are clear about the demands of the subject. Check that...
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'There is a money issue and a guilt issue'
Tina South is a second-year midwifery student. She left school after taking her A levels and worked in a path-ology laboratory. Her husband's job took him to Newcastle, and he encouraged her to enrol...