Don's diary
Saturday Must get up. Haystacks of work. Better idea. Do a wallaby, Australian slang for climbing back into the same cosy hole you have just clambered out of. Read through the 28 applications for the...
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Lifelong learning ace in Treasury poker game
UNIVERSITIES will be asked to throw their weight behind the government's lifelong learning agenda as part of the battle to secure more funding from this summer's comprehensive spending review. Vice-...
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Equal Opportunities, Access and Lifelong Learning
A group set up to guide the Higher Education Funding Council for England on widening participation wants a "substantial increase" above the Pounds 2 million set aside to tackle access issues next...
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Wealthy few hide colleges' distress
The financial fortunes of English higher education institutions are highly polarised with 43 operating at a deficit while just three hold a quarter of the sector's operating surplus and eight hold...
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New wave
(Photograph) - Colchester Institute art student Elena Apperson, with her stainless-steel sculpture featuring a wave, a fish and a man, which will stand on a new 400-home housing development at...
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Iran renews educational links with west
Iran is planning to boost hospitality and tourism through a ground-breaking agreement between its main hotel and tourism training centre, INSTROCT, and Strathclyde University. This is the first...
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Highlands university gets Pounds 2.5 million boost
Scottish education minister Brian Wilson has pledged a further Pounds 2.5 million for the University of the Highlands and Islands project following a Scottish Office evaluation of its work. The bulk...
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Queen Margaret gains full university powers
Edinburgh's Queen Margaret College has won the right to confer its own research degrees from Monday. The decision makes Queen Margaret the first Scottish higher education college to make the same...
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OU wins CHUMS support for fast-track medicine
The Open University's plans for a medical foundation course for non-science graduates wanting to become doctors this week took a major step forward. A meeting of the Council of Heads of University...
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Foreign Office launches SE Asian student fund
The Foreign Office this week announced a Pounds 6.6 million scholarship fund to help South-east Asian students at British universities following the region's financial collapse. Higher education...
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Ulster U appoints professor of women's studies
Ulster University senior lecturer Monica McWilliams, founder of the Women's Coalition, which had a prominent role in the Northern Ireland peace talks, has been appointed professor of women's studies...
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FEDA cuts costs ahead of Commons critique
Plans to make the Further Education Development Agency more cost-effective have been announced just weeks before the House of Commons education select committee is expected to denounce the agency as...
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AoC claims government funds will fall short
In a submission to the Commons education and employment select committee, which is looking at widening participation, the Association of Colleges has said "substantially greater investment" must be...
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University denies 'dumbing down' policy
Heriot-Watt University has rejected allegations that it has allowed students to pass courses with marks as low as 13 per cent to boost completion rates. According to principal John Archer, "Any...
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Student settles out of court over study aid
An Aberdeen University student who was suing his estranged mother for a contribution towards his living costs has reached a confidential out-of-court settlement. Patrick Macdonald, a third-year law...