Perfect 24 for failed course
Quality chiefs have accepted that there is nothing wrong with a pioneering course at Derby University that they had criticised heavily just 18 months ago. The university's postgraduate distance-...
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BP chief is to chair the LSC
BP Amoco chief Bryan Sanderson has been named chairman of the new Learning and Skills Council, which will lead post-16 education and training from next April, writes Tony Tysome. Mr Sanderson will...
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Copy deal produces multiple savings
Higher education purchasing consortia are set to save Pounds 20 million through an innovative national photocopying contract, and if every university in the country signs up to the deal, the savings...
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UCL ends stand-off with QAA reviewers
University College London has stopped its boycott of the Quality Assurance Agency following a meeting with the agency's chief executive, John Randall. UCL vice-provost Michael Worton confirmed this...
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Students seek fee abolition
Students in Northern Ireland have called on the reconvened assembly to abolish tuition fees from 2001 and to introduce a Pounds 2,000 non-repayable bursary for low-income students, lone parents and...
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Liverpool nursing course joins list of teaching quality failures
Liverpool University has become the fourth university to fail a teaching quality inspection. One of its prestigious nursing degrees does not meet statutory requirements for professional nurse...
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Glittering prizes
Gerry McKenna, vice-chancellor of the University of Ulster, has been awarded the Freedom of the Borough of Coleraine. Cricketer David Gower has been awarded Heriot-Watt University Sports Union's...
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Proof-reading on the web
A literary website set up by Sheffield Hallam University gives proof-reading a new meaning. Proof, a web-based creative writing magazine, is believed to be the first of its kind in this country....
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Austrian finds Welsh is 'exotic' music to his ears
A love of Irish folk tales was the unlikely starting point for an Austrian academic's part in creating the first Welsh-German dictionary. The dictionary has been launched, along with a Welsh-French...
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Old Scots flames rekindled
Dundee and St Andrews universities, once a single institution, are launching an ambitious partnership backed by more than Pounds 300,000 from the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council. Dundee...
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Building reputation
(Photograph) - Building reputation: fashion design students at Birmingham Institute of Art and Design created innovative garments from building materials for a catwalk presentation at a construction...
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Projects tackle disability
A network of 50 projects to improve university provision for students with disabilities is to be coordinated by a National Disability Team, based in Coventry University's Centre for Research and...
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John Patton
The president of the EIS, John Patton, has called for the restoration of national negotiating rights for Scottish further education lecturers. The then employers' association withdrew from national...
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UfI pockets Pounds 84m for autumn launch
The government gave its lifelong learning flagship, the University for Industry, a fair wind last week with an Pounds 84 million budget for its autumn launch. Higher education minister Baroness...
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Conflicting interests in the grey market
The Universities Superannuation Scheme has a surplus of 8 per cent - Pounds 1.44 billion. Of this, Pounds 201 million will go to improve member benefits and Pounds 561.3 million has gone to lower the...