Cutting edge: Sally Martin
Archaeology does not limit itself to the past in Albania. The Butrint site lies in the south of Albania, just inland from the Straits of Corfu. Humans first settled there in the Middle Palaeolithic...
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From today's UK papers
Open University popularity increasing Growing numbers of school-leavers are choosing to earn while they learn, by taking Open University degrees at the same time as holding down full-time job rather...
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For the record
Scotland scraps ILAs amid fears of fraud Wendy Alexander, Scotland's minister for enterprise and lifelong learning, has axed the individual learning account scheme in Scotland after fraud...
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Next week
News Oxford and Cambridge race to reform their governance . Features Museum pieces: what will tomorrow's museum's look like? Academic hurdles: the politics of sports at universities and the rise and...
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Geographers shown the way to the classroom
Geography departments are being urged to join a national scheme promoting a teaching career to their students in a bid to combat dwindling higher education intakes. The Royal Geographical Society-...
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Sizer urges respect for parliament
John Sizer retired this week as founding chief executive of the Scottish higher and further education funding councils full of praise for devolved Scotland, writes Olga Wojtas. He said he took the...
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Scientists fail to tackle fraud
Universities must take research fraud more seriously and help lead the fight against unscrupulous scientists, according to the Committee on Publication Ethics. The fourth annual report from Cope, a...
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UCL cultural mission is music to the ears
University College London researchers in fields as diverse as literary tragedy and quantum mechanics have acquired a shared resource - a resident orchestra. The college has signed up the New London...
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Dropout rate is in hands of colleges
The quality of teaching and good course design are the most significant factors affecting student retention and achievement in further education, according to a study. They are more important than...
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Scots reform met Iron Lady resistance
A Scottish Parliament may have been unimaginable 30 years ago, but there were devolutionary rumblings over the impact of raising the school leaving age to 16 in 1972, writes Olga Wojtas. Scotland...
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Best foot forward for farm colleges
Agricultural colleges have accelerated moves towards diversification and rationalisation in the wake of the foot-and-mouth crisis, which was officially declared over this week. Steps that college...
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Papers reveal Thatcher's persuasive powers
The year after ending free school milk, Margaret Thatcher was dethroning yet another apparently immovable feature of the landscape of British education - Lord Robbins. The cabinet papers for 1971,...
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Hardship rejig leaves post-92 campuses smiling
New metropolitan universities have been the biggest winners under a shake-up in the way government access and hardship funds are distributed. Statistics from the Department for Education and Skills...
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QAA wary of China ambitions
Quality chiefs have warned universities not to over-exploit the Chinese student market by expanding too quickly without proper controls over standards, or by glossing over cultural and language...
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Slaps on the back all round
Scotland's international lead in developing a qualifications framework has helped underpin its success story of almost one in two young people taking up higher education, according to Wendy Alexander...