Pakistani coup casts UK shadow
Almost 2,000 Pakistani students studying in the United Kingdom could face problems following last week's military coup. Self-funding students are experiencing difficulties in getting money out of the...
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Scots funding council to get its WSUMs right
The Scottish Further Education Funding Council has unveiled radical plans for distributing funds. Colleges have been unhappy with the retrospective Scottish Office funding system that was based on...
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'The Church of Christ manipulated me through guilt and fear'
Chaplains warn of abusive sect A former student at Birmingham University, Susannah was in her second year when she bumped into Sophie. "At the time I was feeling lonely and vulnerable. Through Sophie...
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Sources for research funding
Each week this section lists funds available for academic researchers. Items for inclusion should be submitted to research@thesis.co.uk JOINT INSTITUTE FOR LABORATORY ASTROPHYSICS http://jilawww....
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Hidden costs in home working
Universities are accused of passing the costs of online learning on to staff and students in a study which has found that up to 90 per cent of academics use their own computers to work from home....
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Labour is selling old ideas as new, claims Willis
Liberal Democrats this week accused the education department of a "smoke and mirrors" approach to policy presentation that could have misled voters into thinking existing initiatives and money were...
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Swindon's wish comes true
Swindon is to have a campus offering degree and postgraduate programmes run by Bath University. It will be based in the town centre with a second site at Oakfield School, where teaching is due to...
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Two-year vocational degrees expected to win support from employers
Employers may back the introduction of two-year associate degrees amid claims that higher education churns out too many of the wrong sort of graduates. The national council of the National Training...
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Disabled people could be denied opportunities
Some disabled people could be denied opportunities available in other parts of the country under the Learning to Succeed proposals, says Skill, the national bureau for students with disabilities, in...
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Starry-eyed
(Photograph) - Debbie Baines, a physics and astrophysics student at Leeds University, with one of two state-of-the-art computer-controlled telescopes named in honour of oil merchant Scriven Bolton, a...
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For the record
* A public policy centre for Wales opened last week at the University of Wales, Swansea. Under director Mike Sullivan, the centre brings together Swansea staff and healthcare managers from the...
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Dexter denies bias over X-ray site
Wellcome Trust director Michael Dexter has sought to assure employees at Daresbury Laboratory in Cheshire of the charity's impartiality over the location of the United Kingdom's new Pounds 200...
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Lib Dems call elite to account
The Liberal Democrats' new education spokesman, Phil Willis, has called on top universities to account for the hundreds of millions in taxpayers' cash they receive for research. Mr Willis issued his...
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Herts aims to fly high on airfield
The University of Hertfordshire is to relaunch itself as a singlecampus more selective university, combining a new building programme with higher student entrance requirements. Planning permission...
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New rules will scrap 'negative' awards
Tony Tysome and Alison Goddard on the QAA's qualifications blueprint A new definition of degrees and strict rules on how they are described are to be ushered in by the Quality Assurance Agency, which...