Lecturer faces jail term for fraud
A LECTURER convicted of defrauding Reading University out of Pounds 200,000 faces jail. Soraya Yuksel who also faked her qualifications was sacked from her Pounds 30,000 a year job last year after...
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Lecturers fall into benefit trap
CONTRACT staff are being caught in a benefits trap because of some universities' use of waiver clauses. Under these clauses, employees on fixed-term contracts waive their rights to claim unfair...
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Entry grades to be forced up
ADMISSIONS officers could be forced to raise university entry requirements in response to A-level grade inflation and persistent claims of dumbing down. The Qualifications, Curriculum and Assessment...
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Means tests delay cash
UNIVERSITIES could be substantially out of pocket this autumn because of delays in means-testing students for tuition fees, writes Alan Thomson. Local authorities, which carry out initial means-...
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Study set to probe course choices
YOUNG people who will learn their A-level results next week are to take part in a major national study attempting to discover why school-leavers decide what higher education courses to study and...
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Fury over flunk figures
DROP-OUT rates for every institution in England and Wales will be published next year in a new effort to plot students' progress through university. Data on non-completion, compiled by the Higher...
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Howler competition
Running a competition for the best howler might seem somewhat superfluous in the year that brought us the Scottish anomaly. But in the absence of a nomination for H.M. Government and its advisers,...
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Ambassador 'called police to beat students'
STUDENTS from the West African Republic of Benin studying at the Hassan II Royal University in Rabat, capital of Morocco, were beaten by police after occupying their country's embassy, their leaders...
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Private offshoot for state university
AUSTRALIA's second oldest university, Melbourne, has broken new ground by establishing a private offshoot, which it hopes will generate enough income for it to join the world's top-rank institutions...
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Iraq fears for lost generation
UNIVERSITY lecturers are heavily represented among the two million professionals officially estimated to have left Iraq since the Gulf war and the imposition of United Nations sanctions. Unofficially...
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Fight for doctorate blocked
A CALGARY researcher who is claiming unfair treatment by the Italian university authorities following a failed doctorate examination seven years ago is left with no apparent international recourse....
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Business elite head abroad
Gerard Valin has the task of steering France's top business school in an increasingly multinational direction into the new century. He arrived as the new director-general of Groupe ESSEC in January...
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Russians mug up on Latvian to gain status
THE citizenship dispute between Latvia and its former ruler Russia over rights for Soviet-era immigrants mean little to Gennady Ambalov and others like him working in a university system where, seven...
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The right to criticise
Janet Finch's rendition of "Stand by Your Man (and/or Woman)" ("In defence of CVCP", THES, August 7) is unconvincing. She is right to draw attention to the undoubted fact that some CVCP members lack...
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More RAE kickabout
Comparisons are frequently made between the football transfer market and the movement of top research staff between universities (THES, July 31), but the analogy should not be taken too far. Football...