Jobs market will not keep pace with graduates
Government plans to make students pay more for higher education are based on false assumptions about graduates' job prospects and earnings, Anthony Hesketh, lecturer in management learning at...
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Russell bursaries to aid just 2,500
Elite Russell Group universities could help only about 2,500 students through bursary schemes should differential fees be introduced, a THES survey reveals. A number of Russell Group universities...
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Threat to 2,000 research jobs
Up to 2,000 research jobs across the UK are under threat despite an injection of cash in this week's spending review, the Association of University Teachers has said. Cuts will go ahead in the autumn...
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Cut the red tape, report tells QAA
A raft of measures designed to cut the burden of accountability faced by academics and university managers is being proposed by a government task force. The long-awaited report, by the Cabinet Office...
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'Support hard-up foreign students'
Universities should use overseas student fees to support more scholarships and hardship funds for foreign rather than home undergraduates, a conference heard this week, writes Tony Tysome. About a...
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Tables show 'small is beautiful' in teacher training
Universities continue to provide the best teacher training in England, according to the latest league tables. But there is evidence that big providers are losing ground to smaller specialist...
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Clark makes ILT exit
The head of the Institute for Learning and Teaching is leaving amid a shake-up that raises questions about the agency's future. Chief executive Paul Clark is returning to the Open University as pro...
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Externals set to bow to Hefce's scrutiny
External examiners face accreditation by a new national college as part of a plan to increase central control over degree standards. Under the proposals, seen by The THES , external examiners would...
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Leeds to lead NHS training initiative
Leeds Metropolitan University has teamed up with a private training provider to offer courses to National Health Service staff. It is the first commercial-academic partnership in the UK aimed at...
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Teeth may hold key to identity of child Titanic victim
Scientists have collected DNA from two British sisters and a Swedish family in a bid to identity an unknown child victim of the Titanic tragedy. The experts will try to match it with genetic material...
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Rome
A 26-year-old student from Rome has been arrested for murdering his parents last March after they discovered he had failed exams.
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Bogotá
A survey by Colombia's Fulbright scholarship commission has revealed that 89 per cent of Colombian graduates lack sufficient English to carry out postgraduate research at US universities.
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Update: 12:35
Student expansion target under threat, warn Tories Shadow higher education minister Alistair Burt today warned that student numbers are falling "well short" of the government's target. Mr Burt said...
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Posh splice
Manchester University vice-chancellor Sir Martin Harris is "not slow at coming forward" in his fundraising attempts, according to higher education minister Margaret Hodge. She told last week's...
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Degrees of influence
Gordon Brown was due to receive an honorary degree from the University of Edinburgh last Friday. But he had to postpone the ceremony as he concentrated on finalising the details of this week's...