Sussex students consider NUS split
Students at the University of Sussex have begun moves to break away from the National Union of Students after a close vote at their annual general meeting last week. The students will now hold a...
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Viva guide advises the orally challenged
Postgraduates! Want to fail your viva? Then be defensive, get angry, throw questions back to examiners, show reluctance to engage in debate about your work or fail to pick up on examiners' cues to...
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Secret life of serial hoaxer
The amateur antiquarian whom many blame for the Piltdown man forgery has been exposed as a serial hoaxer whose creations fooled palaeontologists, archaeologists, geologists, naturalists and...
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St Hilda's to vote again
For the second time this year, Oxford University's last remaining women-only college, St Hilda's, will vote on whether to admit men. A statement by the college governing body says: "The governing...
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Story leak 'inaccurate'
Dame Judith Mayhew, provost of King's College, Cambridge, has rejected claims that bursar Roger Salmon was suspended last week because of the college's financial position. She told The THES that much...
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Scoping group set up
Consultants are to investigate the strengths and weaknesses of the degree classifications system and the new student transcripts that might replace it. A "scoping group", set up to consider possible...
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NI minister unlikely
Northern Ireland is unlikely to regain its higher and further education minister despite elections next week. The Stormont Assembly will probably not be recalled in the short term, even after voters...
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New recruit to 50% goal
Students studying short courses will count towards the government's manifesto promise to get 50 per cent of young people into higher education by 2010, it emerged this week. The government is to...
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Tough on bad trainers
The Learning and Skills Council should be "really tough" with the worst providers of training courses, the Adult Learning Inspectorate said this week. Launching Ali's annual report on training...
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Worries over reliability delay results of satisfaction survey
Results from the first national student satisfaction survey are unlikely to be available until summer 2005, almost two years later than promised by the government, amid continuing concerns about the...
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UUK backs students' rights
Students have every right to call their universities to account, the chief executive of Universities UK said this week. Speaking at a "Students' complaints" conference, Baroness Warwick said: "Long...
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Booming subject outstrips funding
Biological sciences are booming in UK universities, but the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council warned this week that research funding might be unable to keep up. According to...
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US may lure UK bioscientists
Britain's burgeoning bioscience sector will ship out to the US unless there is urgent action to improve funding and coordination, a government and industry report warns today, writes Anna Fazackerley...
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Solo saboteurs take the rap for torpedoing language drive
The government's national languages strategy is being undermined by a "free for all" in higher education that ignores national and regional needs, the government's languages advisory body warned this...
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V-c blames foundations plan for scuttling honours
The government policy of expanding foundation degree places needs to be re-examined, as it is stifling the growth of honours degrees, says the vice-chancellor of Newcastle University. Christopher...