We're all Domed
The London Business School has hit on a novel idea - getting the former chief executive of the Millennium Dome, P. Y. Gerbeau, to teach its students about managing successful entertainment...
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Campaign for sale
A begging letter has arrived from the "Education is not for sale" campaign. The group is concerned that once private money has been put into education, "the things we learn are increasingly the...
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Naked ambition needed
A university college has received a glut of applications from nude models after a local Jobcentre banned its advert for people to pose for life drawing classes. Staff at the Jobcentre told lecturers...
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To ensure our survival, we must band together
In the aftermath of the research assessment exercise, a number of university education departments are questioning whether high-quality research is compatible with quality initial training - and...
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Canny way to a degree
Scotland gives pupils an option-filled path to higher education; England weeds them out of the school system, says Jenny Rees. The government's target to increase participation in higher education in...
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What are we thinking about?
Brenda Gourley says shallow soundbites have replaced considered opinion when we need it most. We are at a serious time in our history - a time when we should be thirsting for the considered, informed...
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Why I... am <i> so </i> proud to be a 'learning provider'
It is not that managers love language too little but that they love it too much. And love can be destructive. The endless care expended on words, the endless redrafting just to produce sentences such...
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EU plan to deflect scholars from UK
A proposed European Union directive aims to divert international students away from the UK to smaller member states. Two-thirds of the 400,000 foreign students in the EU attend courses at...
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Student attacks widening access
The scale of the task facing Conservative reformers was made apparent in Bournemouth this week when a student delegate revealed the antipathy of some party members to the realities of widening...
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Universities next on Tory reform agenda
Universities will be the next target for Conservative education reforms, party spokesmen said this week. The Tories took on Labour on its home ground as it unveiled an agenda for reform that saw...
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FE crisis hampers HE growth
Further education colleges' ability to expand their higher education work is being hampered by a worsening staffing crisis. An Association of Colleges survey shows that the number of unfilled...
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Beatles give students a little help
Archivists at Dundee University have uncovered a hoard of 500 photographs of The Beatles taken while they filmed Help! in 1965. The images were taken by Hungarian-born photojournalist Michael Peto...
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Tutors continue to run axed courses
Tutors made redundant when their courses were axed by the University of Gloucestershire in June have established themselves as a group of independent lecturers. Some 44 part-time and full-time staff...
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Call for education grants for over-55s
The government should introduce education grants for over-55s. These would cut healthcare and social-service bills as well as redress a serious imbalance in education policy, according to a report....
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Rift over pay threatens expansion
Conflicting priorities within Whitehall in the run-up to the government's strategic paper on higher education are threatening to produce a logjam in academic salaries that could hamper ministers'...