Complaints code only an 'interim measure'
Uncertainty over the future of the visitorial system for the resolution of disputes in old universities has led the Quality Assurance Agency to concede that its long-awaited code of practice on...
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Audit reveals some Welsh colleges still ignoring best practices
Conflicts of interest, secret decision making, unaccountable leadership and poor control of public money continue to blight college management, according to a report on further education in Wales by...
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Britain to get wider access to digital art
Britain could soon follow the United States in a groundbreaking deal between librarians and copyright societies to make digital images of 20th-century art more widely available to universities and...
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Scottish artists are being sold short
An art college principal accused Scottish funding chiefs of selling young artists and designers short, challenging the Scottish executive to recognise art and design as a higher education priority....
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New arts qualifications set to attract funding and recognition
Dance and drama students will have the chance to join new courses leading to nationally recognised qualifications and possibly attracting financial support. The six new courses, known provisionally...
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To win, Nesta must dare to fail
If the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts is to succeed overall, it must dare to fail on specific projects. So recommended the House of Commons select committee on science and...
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Unidentified fellows
Another senior academic has made false claims about prestigious academic qualifications. Kurt Ziebeck, former head of physics at Loughborough University, has been falsely describing himself as a...
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Cricklade College chief sacked
Cricklade College has sacked its principal Richard Evans for "bringing the college into disrepute". But the troubled Hampshire college stands by its decision to dismiss the whistleblower who brought...
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Middlesex unfair dismissal claim settled
Suzi Clark, the communications chief sacked by Middlesex University after a row over freedom of speech, has settled her claim for unfair dismissal. Ms Clark fell foul of vice-chancellor Michael...
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In the news
Helena Kennedy's trip to Macedonia this week in advance of the Sarajevo stability pact conference will have been a good challenge for the QC's celebrated sense of fairness. Ensuring that the British...
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Don's diary
Sunday It is not every day that a Swiss mountain-resort hotel becomes home to Iranian ayatollahs, mullahs and members of the judiciary and prison services. Heads turn as the ayatollahs and mullahs...
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On the move
Sir Robin McLaren, former ambassador to China, becomes chairman of the college council of Royal Holloway, University of London, in August. He succeeds Sir Robert Andrew. Stephen O'Brien, chief...
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Glittering prizes
The Royal Academy of Engineering has given fellowships to: Anthony Ball, director of materials engineering, University of Cape Town; Yvonne Barton, chairman of British Gas Asia Pacific Pte Limited;...
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The THES diary
Old verbs gotta go We seem to be losing something of our sense of obligation, according to research on changes in grammar since 1961. A database being compiled at Lancaster University shows striking...
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Eyewitness
Next month the Rising Sun, indelibly associated with Japan, is likely to be finally recognised as the country's flag despite anxiety that it smacks of 1930s' nationalism, which peaked in the second...