Unions seek assurance over Derby merger
Union leaders have called for assurance from Derby University that there will be no compulsory redundancies following the university's announcement that it is to merge its schools of engineering,...
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Female graduates lose out in the pay stakes
Male graduates are paid significantly more than their female counterparts just three and a half years after graduating, a pan-European study has found. The European Commission-funded research found...
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No single solution for FE dropouts
There is no universal remedy for student dropouts in further education and each college is likely to take a unique approach to the problem, according to a report by Norah Fitzcharles of Cumbernauld...
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Engineers join forces in learndirect network
The engineering industry has agreed a training-centre merger that would create the largest sector-wide training network under the University for Industry's learndirect service. The National Training...
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Fee protesters are banned from lectures
Six Oxford University students who object to tuition fees and have refused to pay them have been banned from lectures. The students must pay up by the middle of February or risk flouting university...
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Luton's courses must pay their way
Luton University is drawing up radical survival plans under which it will slash traditional academic disciplines in favour of more popular vocational courses. Politics, history, sociology, English,...
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Whistleblowers: Minority medics probe
Exam failure rates for ethnic minority students at Sheffield University are being investigated by the Commission for Racial Equality. The commission was alerted to allegations of race discrimination...
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Elite bias threatens UK research base
Further concentration of government research funds in top universities will damage Britain's research base, a Royal Society working group has warned. In a report sent to the Higher Education Funding...
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AoC in threat to audit control
College heads fear the government is planning to take responsibility for financial checks out of their hands, despite funding chiefs dropping the proposal in the face of protests. The Association of...
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QAA rules tally climbs to 168
The number of rules that institutions must now conform to under the quality assurance framework has been raised to 168 with the publication of ten new rules in the ninth code of practice. The number...
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Don's Diary
Monday Arrive in Arusha in northern Tanzania to conduct a survey of high mountain forest catchments in an area suffering from a two-year drought. Meet with Richard Minja, a long-time colleague....
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On the move
Pam Ackroyd , formerly of the University of Central Lancashire, has been appointed academic registrar at Goldsmiths College , London. Sir Peter Hall has been appointed director of the Institute of...
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Glittering prizes
Roger Coleman , co-director of the Helen Hamlyn Research Centre, and Paul Ewing , of the department of mechanical engineering at Imperial College, London, have won Royal College of Art Innovation in...
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In the news: David Alton
David Alton, a man who has been described variously as "the Cliff Richard of political life" and as "limp and clammy as a flannel dipped in holy water", this week failed in another of his attempts to...
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A man of many talents
Goronwy Tudor Jones, of the University of Birmingham, has attracted international attention by his sheer breadth of scholarship. He has been named Renaissance Researcher of the Month in the...