Experienced staff Patrick Bailey , professor of organic chemistry, Manchester University Philip Barker , professor of applied computing, Teesside University Colin Beard , senior lecturer, Sheffield...
Managers at London Metropolitan University and officials of lecturers' union Natfhe have agreed to hold talks over industrial action at the institution. Natfhe has agreed to "an indefinite suspension...
Swansea University announced this week that its decision to restructure five departments had been vindicated by its visitor, after an investigation lasting more than a year. A report from Philip...
Steven Schwartz, vice-chancellor of Brunel University, is to take up the top post at Macquarie University in Sydney. Professor Schwartz, the author of a government-commissioned report on fair...
The Higher Education Funding Council for England appointed three new board members this week - David Eastwood, vice-chancellor of the University of East Anglia, Tim Wilson, vice-chancellor of...
Barry Sheerman, Labour MP for Huddersfield, is likely to resume his seat as chairman of the influential Education and Skills Select Committee. It is unclear whether Ian Gibson, Labour MP for Norwich...
One of the first tasks faced by Scotland's new Lifelong Learning Minister and Deputy First Minister will be to set the new level of tuition fees in response to top-up fees in England. Nichol Stephen...
The Rootstein Hopkins chair of drawing, held by Stephen Farthing (Times Higher, June 10), is an appointment made by the University of the Arts London across the whole institution and is not just a...
A website urging graduates to refuse to repay their student loans in protest at the Government's student funding policy has been branded irresponsible by the Higher Education Minister. The anonymous...
Two universities have sought official permission to improve the bursaries they will offer undergraduates in 2006 amid signs of market forces at work in higher education. Three months after their...
There is no need for a "great moral panic" if university courses close in future, funding chiefs declared this week as they ruled out creating a "central command-and-control" system to protect...
Evidence of a link between research ratings and course closures was included in the Higher Education Funding Council for England's report to ministers about strategically important subjects. Hefce...
Derby University has written to all applicants holding an "insurance" place on its diagnostic radiography course this September to tell them it cannot honour the offers and that they should seek...
Helen White , who teaches on an early childhood studies degree course at Stockport College, thinks lecturers will be more involved in the development of foundation degrees validated nationally. She...
College lecturers and heads have given a mixed response to the launch of a national validation service for foundation degrees. Some believe that the service, offered by the University Vocational...