Spurned wife goes public in cause of fair play
The abandoned wifeof a lecturer is planning to set up a support group for people whose husbands have left them for students, writes Phil Baty. Her husband, a lecturer at Southampton Institute who has...
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Oxbridge MAs in danger
OXBRIDGE graduates may lose their automatic right to a master of arts degree under plans being considered by a qualifications working party. Special arrangements by which bachelors of arts from...
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Research preserve of rich or sponsored
A benefactor is fast becoming more essential than a first-class degree for a PhD. The number of PhD students at British universities has fallen, according to the latest figures from the Office of...
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Worthington falls in reshuffle
NORTHERN Ireland's education minister Tony Worthington has been sacked amid protests from the United Kingdom's biggest lecturing union. Mr Worthington (Clydebank and Milngavie), a former further and...
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Access plans 'fail bottom 20%'
GOVERNMENT may struggle to widen participation in further and higher education for the fifth of all children failed by the schools system, the Liberal Democrats have said, Alan Thomson writes....
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Exams staff face deletions
STAFF struggling to correct computer blips that threatened to jeopardise A-level results have said their jobs are under threat. Managers at the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate...
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Early fee payers get discounts
Some universities are offering discounts and vouchers to students who pay the new Pounds 1,000 tuition fee in full at the beginning of next term rather than by instalments. At the University of Essex...
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Cambridge rejects don's grievance
A Cambridge don has accused the university of a "disgraceful failure to observe the principles of justice and fairness to all", after the university rejected a grievance case over his rights as a non...
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Media studies deserves more cash, group says
COSTLY media studies courses should get more money, says an advisory group reviewing this year's new funding method for teaching. The group, set up by the Higher Education Funding Council for England...
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Number of nurses in training declines ...
The number of nurses in training has fallen by 15 per cent in the past four years, says the English National Board for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting. About 45,000 nurses are in training,...
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... as drop in social work students accelerates
The fall in the number of social work students is continuing and seems to be accelerating, says Jennifer Bernard of the Central Council for Education and Training in Social Work. She blames the drop...
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Hadlow governors dressed down by FEFC
Governors at Hadlow College in Kent have been condemned by the Further Education Funding Council for "poor provision, which has many weaknesses" - the worst inspection grade. The governing body,...
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Museums commission opens consultation
The Museums and Galleries Commission has begun a consultation exercise on a government proposal to merge the MGC with the Library and Information Commission. The Department of Culture, Media and...
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14 Welsh colleges share Pounds 3.5m for training
WELSH colleges have recieved Pounds 3.5 million of the Pounds 13 million they bid for to expand work-orientated education and skills training. About Pounds 3.15 million of the Education for Industry...
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Labs seek students to test toxic dangers
Students are being used as human guinea pigs to test pesticides. The Medeval laboratory in Manchester's science park pays students Pounds 600 to test the toxicity of pesticides used in pet flea...