Health framework drawn up
The first framework for a core curriculum for health professionals has been published by Quality Assurance Agency benchmarking groups. The two groups responsible for setting minimum standards in...
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Transfer blueprint
A "new kind" of transfer deal between De Montfort University and the University of Lincolnshire and Humberside should act as a model for the rest of the sector, De Montfort chiefs have claimed. De...
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Unions fight use of private contractors
Universities and schools are pushing London manual workers into poverty as they farm out services to private-sector partners who drive down pay and impose poorer conditions, according to research by...
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Whistleblowers: Nord Anglia in race row
Government ministers are likely to receive a rough ride from union leaders at the Trades Union Congress in Brighton next week over plans to increase the private sector's role in education and other...
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Credits turn burger flips into work fillips
Flipping burgers could become a positive part of a student's curriculum vitae under plans to accredit work experience. Crac, the Careers Research and Advisory Centre, is to pilot a scheme in 15...
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Mr Randall points out the 'fallible'
Former quality supremo John Randall has listed a catalogue of weaknesses threatening standards at some of Britain's top universities. When he resigned as chief executive of the Quality Assurance...
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Scots loans found to have sting in the tail
Scotland's post-Cubie student support system is not as rosy as generally believed, with both poorer and better-off students facing financial hardship this year. The warning came from John Martin,...
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Student jobs may be cause of failure
Students with term-time jobs are more likely to fail their degree than those who are not employed, according to a large survey of students. Researchers from Northumbria University discovered that...
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Reality show
Big Brother contestant Helen Adams joined education and skills secretary Estelle Morris at Villa Park to launch a campaign encouraging adults to 'Get On' to basic skills courses. Get On is the...
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Dem bones
Cambridge University palaeontologist Leslie Noe examines a rib bone from a Jurassic crocodile, a Steneosaurus, excavated from a site near Ely.
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Access plan that totally backfired
Government policy aimed at widening participation has had the opposite effect. Instead of raising poorer youngsters' aspirations, it has deepened their reluctance to consider studying for a degree,...
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Analysis: Stretched system set to snap?
Vice-chancellors are meeting next week to decide the future of a sector pulled in different directions by a new Labour government that wants universities to do it all. UK higher education is not "fit...
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Student loans: godsend for rich
The Labour government has got almost everything wrong in the changes it has made to higher education and failed to put right the previous government's mistakes, according to one of the government's...
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Analysis: 'I've a deck chair in physics'
Harriet Swain finds that academics at summer conferences are just as likely to pack swimming trunks as a trunk full of books. It is a perfect blue-skied Venetian morning in August and you have just...
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Don's Diary
April The survey crew assembles on the dive boat and makes the long ocean run from Florida to Haiti. The time is spent poring over old charts and accounts of the wreck. As we enter the Gulf of Gonave...