Call for inquiry into Gwent principal's pay-off
The anger at Wirral comes as MPs urge a government inquiry into the pay-off and lucrative new job of Sue Parker, the former principal of Gwent Tertiary College, another college in trouble. A report...
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Governors attempt to claw back money
Governors at Halton College are seeking legal advice regarding the recovery of cash from former principal Martin Jenkins and his deputy, Jenny Dolphin. Mr Jenkins, the highest-paid college principal...
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Scapegoat vindicated
When Kate Schroder blew the whistle on a widespread qualifications fraud at the training provider Sight and Sound Education in 1996, the firm took what it celebrated as "swift action". It held its...
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20:20 physics vision
Physics departments must have more than 20 staff to prosper, the University of Wales, Cardiff, has concluded. Its physics department is raising staff numbers from 20 to 25 by establishing an...
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'Devolution will affect how science is done'
The Welsh Assembly could take the lead in attracting top scientists to Wales by financing personal university chairs, says Plaid Cymru, the Welsh nationalist party. The Conservatives in Wales want to...
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Bravehearts, high hopes
Scottish and Welsh higher and further education are staking claims with their new political masters. Olga Wojtas and Jennifer Currie survey the ground. Scottish further and higher education...
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Head to head on the hustings
Take a snarling audience, add politicians and stir it up with a chairman who half-jokingly compares himself to Jerry Springer, and you have a recipe for a US chatshow. Although the accents were...
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'We have an active role to play'
Higher education may not come under the Welsh Assembly's remit, but institutions are regarding its advent with a mix of optimism and worry. "It will be an opportunity and a challenge," said Adrian...
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'If we do not make our mark now...'
Joan Stringer, principal of Queen Margaret University College and vice-convenor of the Committee of Scottish Higher Education Principals, served on the constitutional steering group on the Scottish...
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Glittering prizes
Robert Hawley, chairman of the Engineering Council, has been awarded the Order of Diplomatic Merit, Kwang-ha Medal (First Degree) by the Republic of Korea for his promotion of friendly ties between...
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Heard but unsaid
Surprise all round at Senate House last week at the inaugural lecture of one of Britain's best-known historians. With the bold words "I have never been afraid to speak my mind", David Cannadine...
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Don's Diary
Monday. Start of the second and final week of a course I am delivering to 12 hardened CID men who now have to struggle with the academic demands of essays and group presentations. Most claim the last...
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On the move
Jacqui Johnson, a lecturer in communications and media studies at Bracknell and Wokingham College, has been elected vice-president of university and college lecturers' union Natfhe. She will take up...
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Mirjana Markovic
The name Mirjana means peace. But Mirjana Markovic, wife of Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic, has never really known any. She was born in 1942 in a forest when her teenage mother, Vera, was a...
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UK inventors not cashing in
Of 371 US patents citing UK neuroscience papers, 13.1 per cent of the inventors named are from the UK but only 3.4 per cent of the owners are UK-based companies and individuals. Wellcome said: "There...