Diversity plan is 'depressing'
Market forces should help determine the future shape of higher education in England, according to higher education minister Margaret Hodge. Ms Hodge, who has been touring campuses up and down the...
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Hodge orders probe into v-c pay
Higher education minister Margaret Hodge has ordered an investigation into vice-chancellors' pay. A survey by The THES , published a fortnight ago, identified that the highest-paid vice-chancellors...
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Hopkin vows to focus on teaching
South Bank University will scale back on research so it can concentrate on teaching, writes Alison Goddard. Vice-chancellor Deian Hopkin will no longer allow teaching to subsidise research. Combined...
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UUK speaks out against bill that 'curtails freedom'
Academics may have to ask the government's permission before publishing work or appointing foreign research students under the Export Control Bill, now in its final stages of passage through the...
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'Academic freedom threat from Gats plan'
Higher education in the United Kingdom will be threatened if it is included in global moves to liberalise service industries, Universities Scotland has warned. Scotland's principals say that bringing...
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News in brief
V-cs shun 'Mickey Mouse' and elite tag Vice-chancellors have hit back at claims that universities are purveyors of "Mickey Mouse" degrees and elitism. Universities UK launched its Employability and...
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Fury as Hodge calls the shots
The higher education quality watchdog has revealed that ministers, not vice-chancellors, are dictating the blueprint of the new quality assurance regime, raising questions about universities' right...
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V-cs: do not penalise flexible study
Universities that offer students flexible learning routes are being unfairly penalised, according to vice-chancellors. Students who take time out, switch between full-time and part-time study, drop...
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Admissions policies 'create divisions'
University admissions policies are creating divisions between "standard" and "non-standard" students, according to research published today. It claims that widening participation policies are...
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'Bewildering' red tape stops students claiming full childcare support
The new system of grants for childcare introduced last autumn is so complex that many students eligible for financial help are put off claiming the whole package, says a report published this week....
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Crisis in college staffing looms
Inadequate funding and a skills and qualifications shortage are fuelling a staff recruitment crisis in further education, a national study has found. Colleges face significant problems recruiting...
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Shock for campus as deficit hits £9.8m
Cambridge University is almost £10 million in the red, millions more than it predicted. Control over its finances is still in disarray two years after the bungled implementation of a new financial...
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Toxic Avenger finds way home
Film distributors and a television production company have come to the rescue of a cult film archive at Northampton University College that was hit by burglaries last year, writes Tony Tysome. OPI...
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GCSEs are route to HE expansion
The importance of broadening participation in higher education is not in doubt but how to achieve it is. Alan Thomson reports. Higher education must recruit an extra 400,000 people by 2010 to meet...
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Further education plays crucial role in Scottish recruitment
The Scottish Executive's latest figures for the proportion of young Scots going into higher education show another rise in 1999-2000, from 47.2 per cent to 47.6 per cent. But there is no single...