Call to scrap degree classes
Traditional degree classifications of firsts, seconds and thirds should be scrapped, a government-backed review group has concluded, writes Phil Baty. The final draft of the report of the Burgess...
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LEARNING IN THE EAR AND NOW Our ICT supplement delves into how the iPod, BlackBerry and BuddySpace are changing higher education Also Intellectual gossip: Isaiah Berlin's letters reviewed by Alex...
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Delayed funding impact
Welsh higher education institutions will suffer a real-terms cut in funding next year before the extra £56 million allocated by the Welsh Assembly this week makes a difference. The draft budget for...
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Cash fillip for women
The Department for Education and Skills has stumped up £200,000 to help universities retain female students of science, engineering and technology and to encourage them to take up careers in the...
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Privatise Oxford? It's 'not on my horizon'
Oxford University's new vice-chancellor, John Hood, insisted this week that a move towards privatisation of the ancient university was "not on my horizon". In an interview with The Times Higher , he...
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Head teachers back shake-up of A-level grading
Plans to introduce a new A** at A level to help universities distinguish between the brightest candidates won the backing of Britain's biggest head teachers' association this week. Just days before...
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V-c row puts jobs in peril
A row between the vice-chancellors of Glamorgan University and the University of Wales Institute Cardiff that led to the collapse of merger talks could now cost lecturers their jobs, lecturers' union...
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Quality report attacks APU management standards
Quality inspectors have "limited confidence" in management standards at Anglia Polytechnic University, according to a report due to be published this week. The Times Higher has learnt that the...
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Soton to blaze a trail with pay plan
Staff at Southampton University are set to be the first employees to move to the new national pay structure hammered out by unions and employers earlier this year. The university believes its swift...
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Good practice should lead to a lighter touch
A code of conduct for university governors should lead to less external monitoring, says Andrew Cubie University governors have never had higher obligations and responsibilities and, in his report...
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Nancy Rothwell
A lack of interest in science is contributing to a crisis in UK industry, and it can be traced back to what children do in class Schoolchildren today are faced with many more choices than I ever had...
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Sitting on a fortune
It seems that the drive for universities to be more transparent in the way they cost their research is likely to be particularly probing in Scotland. A letter from the Scottish Higher Education...
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No aides to recovery
News that Labour MP and top-up fees rebel Ian Gibson had suffered a stroke during a political trip to Israel last month prompted some opportunism in his Norwich constituency. Rumour has it that while...
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Dead satisfied
After years of painstaking discussion about who should be included in next year's flagship national student satisfaction survey, the group developing the poll has finally reached a consensus. An...
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You don't say...
Science minister Lord Sainsbury this week delivered yet another speech about the knowledge economy, this time at the British German Forum on Thursday. But on being asked for an advance copy of his...