Review of NI institute sparked by £1.4m loss
A hit squad will tackle the financial crisis at Northern Ireland's North East Institute after the college failed to produce a recovery plan demanded last year, writes Phil Baty. The Department for...
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Part-time courses spared axe
The University of Sunderland is to take over the running of lifelong learning programmes offered by Newcastle University, writes Alison Utley. The collaboration will secure part-time courses under...
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Principal salaries enrage lecturers
New figures for further education college principals' salaries have fuelled anger among lecturers' unions. The results of the Association of Colleges' annual senior post-holder survey show that the...
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Online venture stalls
Fathom, the online provider of lectures, seminars and performances, founded three years ago by New York's Columbia University and others including the London School of Economics, has folded. Some...
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Union backs pay strike
More than 600 staff at the Scottish Agricultural College were expected to strike yesterday in a dispute over pay. The college management said it was "disappointed" that Prospect had advised its...
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Libraries enjoy growth
The number of staff in higher education libraries has continued to rise in contrast to public libraries, according to new figures from the Library and Information Statistics Unit based at...
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Spin-off finds investor
Technology commercialisation company BTG will invest in Senexis, a biotechnology company that will develop treatments for ageing-related diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Huntington's....
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TUC sponsors chair
The first TUC-sponsored chair has been taken up at Cardiff University. David Walters has become the TUC chair of the working environment, thanks to a three-year renewable partnership agreement...
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Edinburgh demolition
Demolition of Edinburgh University's School of Informatics, devastated in a fire before Christmas, has begun. The department, where about 200 people were based, has moved to another building.
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Whistleblowers: Review to make Pimlott 'more accountable'
A review team has called for a new tier of senior managers at Goldsmiths College after complaints that the management style of warden Ben Pimlott is "autocratic". The team, set up last year following...
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Canny flag-waver for desktop democracy
How do we get people interested in democracy again? That's the question exercising the world's first professor of e-governance, Ann Macintosh, director of Napier University's International...
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Review sparks youth bias fear
Mature students fear the government's forthcoming review of student finance could drive tens of thousands of older learners away from higher education. As education secretary Charles Clarke gave his...
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Go online to take off weight
Desperate to shed the kilos piled on over Christmas? Round-the-clock help will soon be available from the University of Leeds, where researchers are setting up an interactive website. The nutrition...
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Analysis: The great fee debate
Tony Blair, prime minister "Are we to have a flat fee for all universities, or will there be a variable fee, with different universities charging different fees? "Secondly, if we have a variable fee...
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Will rich ideas tackle a very poor show?
With a new strategy for HE imminent, Geoff Layer kicks off four pages on issues it will address with a look at efforts to recruit more working-class students. Forty years on from the Robbins report,...