Parents' fees case collapses in court
A High Court judge dealt a serious blow to a bankrupt couple when he refused to intervene in their case against the Department for Education and Employment over their children's tuition fees. Lawyers...
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Audit Office raps Ulster over credit card scheme
A corporate credit card scheme for senior staff at the University of Ulster has been severely criticised by the Northern Ireland Audit Office. It said there had been a "surprising degree of laxity"...
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Nord Anglia race finding
The millionaire entrepreneur leading the government's private education revolution, Kevin McNeany, encouraged and instigated race discrimination, an employment tribunal found. Mr McNeany's company,...
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Blunkett calls for Derby investigation
Education secretary David Blunkett has asked the Quality Assurance Agency to investigate revelations in The THES that Derby University enrolled students to its courses in Israel without minimum entry...
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Don's diary
Monday A bright morning in New Cross, London. Since September I have been acting head of the Centre for Urban and Community Research. The centre is based in an ornate old building in Laurie Grove...
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Poet in the dock
Dreaming spires apart, rarely does a university building inspire poetic feelings. But the University of East London's new Docklands campus has had just this effect on Patrick Hodgkinson, emeritus...
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Interesting websites
Oxford University has proudly announced the 11th spin-off company in two years from its commercial arm, Isis Innovation. The company, called ThirdPhase Limited, is developing a system for safely...
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Winning by a whisker?
A surprise candidate in the race for London mayor? Alan Carr, president of the Association of University Teachers, was pleased to greet both familiar and unfamiliar faces at the AUT's Scottish...
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Kumar Bhattacharyya
The success of Kumar Bhattacharyya's Warwick Manufacturing Group has been the envy of universities across the country. Started by Professor Bhattacharyya 20 years ago, with himself as the only...
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On the move
Nick Stuart, director general of the employment, lifelong learning and international directorate at the Department for Education and Employment, is to head a new lifelong learning directorate,...
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Glittering prizes
Chris Welch, principal lecturer in astronautics in the School of MAP Engineering at Kingston University, has been elected vice-chair of the affiliate campuses of the International Space University...
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Eyewitness
In May 1940, 55 British citizens were deported from Denmark to German detention camps near Nuremberg, where they remained throughout the war. The Danish government consented to the deportation of the...
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East reaps what aid sowed
Vera Rich reports on how Britain's academic relations with the former Soviet bloc have ripened in a decade. Ten years ago this month, Lithuania declared independence, triggering a process that within...
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Baltimore
A court has upheld the right of Johns Hopkins University to withhold a diploma from a student who was convicted of murder after he completed the requirements for his degree. Robert J. Harwood Jr is...
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Messina
Two lecturers at Messina University are under investigation for alleged links with the Calabrian Mafia, the 'Ndrangheta. More than 50 arrest warrants have been issued for suspected Mafia members....