Vegging out
(Photograph) - Vegging out: Benjamin Monk from Blackpool and the Fylde College won the advertising category in the Fujifilm student awards with this photograph. This year's awards were set around the...
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Moment of peace in a war-torn country
(Photograph) - Moment of peace in a war-torn country: a student at the University of Zaire, Kinshasa. Photograph by Reuters
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Chelsea first
UNIT 26, the "new art democracy", has organised the first online degree show for Chelsea College of Art and Design. Graduate students of the college are displaying and offering their works for sale...
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V-c's 'plea for firsts' fuels quality fears
A vice-chancellor has been accused of pressurising external examiners to award more first-class honours degrees to his students, increasing fears that competition among universities is artificially...
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Damning report for basic skills
Further education colleges are being harnessed to an increasingly prescriptive central government drive to improve workforce skills, it emerged this week. Education secretary David Blunkett said it...
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Eleventh-hour asset control amendments attacked by TEC
The government has come under fire from Training and Enterprise Council leaders over proposals to give ministers unprecedented powers over the assets and reserves of TECs, writes Tony Tysome. The...
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Ucas says that early 'lack of direction' is OK
Students who include a mixture of courses on their university application form should not be penalised for lacking direction, according to the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service. The new...
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Semantic debate over PM honour
Only at Oxford could the word "now" cause so many problems. The reply "no, not now" by Oxford's chancellor, Lord Jenkins, to a question posed in last week's Spectator about the chances of the prime...
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Merger wrangle delays rector job
Sir Richard Sykes's expected appointment as rector of Imperial College, London, has been delayed by wrangling over the merger of Glaxo Wellcome - the pharmaceuticals giant that he currently heads -...
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Retailers: 'don't sell us short'
The "uneasy and uncertain" relationship between higher education and the retail industry must be resolved if Britain is to maintain a competitive advantage, according to a consultation paper released...
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'Progress files' to highlight failures
Graduate "records of achievement", which are expected to replace traditional degree classifications, are likely to include details about exam resits, dropped courses and failures. A consultation by...
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Honours degree classifications
* Honours degree classifications will be remembered as "quaint relics of academic indulgence" long before the children of current graduates come to university, said Jeffrey Sanderson, vice-principal...
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Sacking investigated
Lecturers at Southampton Institute's faculty of media arts fear a staffing crisis and are calling for an audit of lecturers' departures. The call from the local branch of lecturers' union Natfhe...
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It's tough at the top for Britain's research elite
Birmingham is one institution fighting to remain competitive in a global age. Tony Tysome reports Birmingham University has become one of the first of the Russell Group institutions to face up to the...
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Student number targets raised
Further education funding chiefs are raising the growth targets that colleges must achieve if they are to avoid having money clawed back from their budgets. The move comes as a growing number of...