UCL 'gobsmacked' by grants sweep

University College London scooped a third of the grants announced in the latest round of Joint Infrastructure Fund awards. Of the 28 successful research applications to share the £125 million, nine...

Union motion to abandon ILT

The Association of University Teachers is set to withdraw cooperation with the Institute for Learning and Teaching and launch an alternative. A motion to be put to the AUT's winter council next week...

On the march to fight tuition fees

Parents feel so strongly about their children's higher education that they have started carrying placards on protest marches. At the National Union of Students' demo in London last month, mothers...

When parental power becomes overbearing

Inflation busting boost for Scotland

Core funding for Scotland's higher education institutions will rise next year by 3.5 per cent, 1 per cent higher than the government's inflation assumption. The Scottish Higher Education Funding...

Prince is given special favour

An associate college of Oxford University has admitted that the Crown Prince of Brunei received special treatment during the two years he studied at Oxford. The Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies said...

Welsh to conduct review into student support

The Welsh Assembly is to conduct a Cubie-style review into student support alongside its wider Dearing-style inquiry into Welsh higher education. Advisers have urged the assembly to remove student...

Whistleblowers: LJMU initiates inquiry

Michael Brown, new vice-chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University, is clearly not happy with what he has found in some key areas. He is trying to fulfil his pledge to meet all staff in all...

In the news: Richard Wiseman

Richard Wiseman, reader in the public understanding of psychology at the University of Hertfordshire, is on a mission to promote scepticism. His mammoth telepathy experiment in London yesterday,...

On the move

Chris Humphries , director-general of the British Chambers of Commerce and former chairman of the National Skills Taskforce, has been appointed director-general of awarding body City and Guilds . He...

Don's Diary: Michael Phillips

Saturday Installation at Tate Britain. It is two years since being invited as a guest curator to recreate Blake's life and work in Lambeth during the 1790s. We have been lucky, obtaining more than...

Cast into the pit

Cheltenham ladies and gentlemen have been yelling fire and brimstone over the conversion of a former Baptist church into a student pub. They have been incensed not so much by the transformation of a...

Cabinet told to study

Seventy-five senior Ethiopian government staff graduated from the Open University this week, after being ordered to study for an OU master of business administration degree by prime minister Meles...

Clinton for chancellor?

Rumours that President Clinton is interested in becoming chancellor of Oxford University have surprised Oxford, as a vacancy will only arise if the present chancellor Lord Jenkins dies or...

Offering Ikareer advice

Five Dundee University medical students who won a competition run by Ikea in Edinburgh to live in the store showroom for a weekend found themselves advising a customer on more than assembling shelves...