Degrees shunned by GNVQ students
The government's lifelong learning ambitions may be thwarted as college students on vocational courses shun university because of perceived financial obstacles and a lack of confidence. Research...
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Mature scholars suffer isolation
The majority of mature students suffer from social isolation, according to a survey. Most of the 300 mature students questioned for the Manchester University survey were failing to get to know fellow...
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Analysis: Expedite your expeditions
The Expedition Advisory Centre helps students plan successful research trips, writes Olga Wojtas. "I am approached by a lot of people who want, for one reason or another, to go on expeditions but...
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Unison ponders tactics for industrial action
Strike tactics, planning, publicity and organisation are top of the agenda at a Unison higher education seminar that begins today. The seminar, in Leeds, is a warning to university heads of looming...
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FEFC calls for diligence, not just quality
Further education college governors need to be more active in seeing that managers take action to address weaknesses and raise standards, further education quality watchdogs said this week. Colleges...
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Hurdles hold back Welsh credit system
Wales is pushing ahead in developing a full credit and qualification framework across further and higher education, but it needs to overcome some barriers that have slowed progress in the initiative...
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MSP calls for Dundee centre of excellence
Andrew Welsh, Scottish National Party MSP for Angus, has called for the creation of a centre of excellence based around Dundee University research on nuclear test veterans. Sue Rabbit Roff of Dundee'...
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Northern Ireland needs 'better sex education'
More cash and reforms are needed to improve sex education for young people in Northern Ireland, according to an Ulster University academic. Dorothy Whittington, a health psychologist, said that...
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Fighting inequality isn't cheap
New Labour's social security reforms fall short of helping the most needy, says Hartley Dean Social security accounts for about a third of public "spending". However, there is a view that money...
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Get oil off our hands
Fossil fuel research gets more cash than the green options. Universities could alter that, says Greg Muttitt This week saw the start of the United Nations climate summit in the Hague. Government...
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Why we ... need to promote the understanding of politics
Political studies have come a long way in the past 50 years. When the Political Studies Association was founded, then chairman Norman Chester, circulated a letter that was a masterpiece of limited...
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QAA revises framework
The Quality Assurance Agency this week caved in to pressure from the higher education sector and is to rethink its national qualifications framework. Criticism from groups representing university...
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Scots extend bursary right
Almost half of Scottish students will benefit from a new support package, according to Wendy Alexander, Scotland's minister for enterprise and lifelong learning. The Scottish Executive is set to...
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'Sir' José woos Latins with dodgy degrees
Universities in South America have been alerted to the activities of the self-styled England and Wales University, which has attempted to engineer exchanges of its honorary degrees with legitimate...
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What's in a name?
Relief all round at victory for the Ivy League in its long-running trademark battle against a New Zealand company. Pacific Dunlop Asia tried to launch a range of "Ivy League" fashion accessories, but...