MPs hear harsh loans truth
Student debt may be causing people to drop out of university, MPs heard this week. Claire Callender, professor of social policy at South Bank University, told the education select committee on...
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Whistleblowers: LIPA must sharpen act
Funding chiefs have demanded a number of improvements to ensure that the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts can account properly for the public money it receives. Meanwhile, a series of high-...
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£50m project to relocate art college
The London Institute will spend £50 million relocating the Chelsea College of Art and Design to the former Royal Army Medical College next to Tate Britain. Sir William Stubbs, rector of the London...
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Royal Academy of Arts criticised over moving postgraduate students to the Museum of Mankind
Graduates of the Royal Academy of Arts have criticised its decision to move 60 postgraduate students to the Museum of Mankind building. They said the studio light conditions would not be as good as...
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Calls to scrap Shefc funding proposals
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council is facing calls to withdraw "ludicrous" proposals on funding for teaching that critics fear could destabilise the sector. Universities have accused Shefc...
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Institute will back science spin-offs
A £10 million enterprise initiative, involving a consortium of eight West Midlands universities, has been launched by science minister Lord Sainsbury. The Mercia Institute of Enterprise aims to...
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Surveyors cull 15 to 'safeguard standards'
Fifteen higher education institutions accredited by the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors have failed to be accepted on new partnership arrangements. The institute has announced partnerships...
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Funding rumblings in valleys
Underfunding of universities and colleges in Wales is the key issue that needs to be addressed by the Welsh Assembly's higher education review, a national survey has found. A preliminary report...
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Macho dons get equality training
All Cambridge University managers are to have compulsory equal opportunities training after a staff audit found that the university's predominantly white, male leaders are propagating a "macho" and "...
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Employers prepare to cave in over staff pay
Employers are ready to give in to key trade union demands, raising hopes for an end to the industrial action that is paralysing the new universities, according to a letter to vice-chancellors. The...
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Natfhe has launched a full "academic boycott" of Sheffield Hallam University
Natfhe has launched a full "academic boycott" of Sheffield Hallam University and will ballot for strikes over a threat by vice-chancellor Diana Green to dock pay from any lecturer taking part in any...
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Intrepid toddler
(Photograph) - Cameron Munro, who sparked a massive police search in the Highlands when he went on an overnight dinosaur hunt last October, has launched Glasgow University's 'Walking with Dinosaurs'...
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Analysis: Private lives of public places
Labour is strongly in favour of public-private initiatives, but what are the implications for institutions? The commission on public-private partnership (PPP) set up by the Institute for Public...
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International advisers get ethics code
Universities and colleges are adopting a code of ethics for international student advisers. The code, drawn up by the UK Council for Overseas Student Affairs and the Association of International...
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Three in four nursing trainees in debt
Three out of four nursing students are in debt, with average debts of £3,400, according to a Royal College of Nursing survey of 800 student nurses. The RCN is campaigning for higher, non means-tested...