Spending cuts narrow access
Government cuts are preventing Britain's top universities recruiting more people from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds, funding chiefs said this week. Brian Fender, chief executive of the...
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Top institutions need more cash to scout for state school students
Top universities need more money to fund teams of professional talent-spotters targeting state-school and poorer pupils, MPs heard this week. Peter Lampl, chairman of the Sutton Trust, told the...
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Extra money needed to tackle a 'stark' inequality of access
Ian Johnston, principal of Glasgow Caledonian University, has invoked Martin Luther King's words about American blacks in the 1960s in describing disadvantaged young people in Glasgow. "He said: '...
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Anglia uncovers education divide
A deep divide between neighbourhoods where very few young people go into higher education and more privileged areas was revealed this week. Researchers at Anglia Polytechnic University have...
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The Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals
* The Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals this week announced that Peter Lampl of the Sutton Trust would join the steering group for the second phase of its "from elitism to inclusion"...
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The death of 'real' drawing and painting skills
(Photograph) - Reports of the death of 'real' drawing and painting skills are grossly exaggerated, according to Dundee University's Duncan of Jordanstone College. Its degree show demonstrates a shift...
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Funding changes create instability
Further education leaders have warned that colleges are turning down funding incentives to grow because they fear they may be penalised by sudden policy changes. Constant "tinkering" with funding...
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Science under scrutiny
(Photograph) - The public understanding of science will be a central issue tackled by the government's forthcoming science white paper. Scientists will be encouraged to take up the public debate on...
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Contents for free
Universities and colleges will have free access to the British Library's Electronic Table of Contents from September, saving individual institutions more than Pounds 1,000 per year. Etoc lists the...
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Law course criticised
The new Lord Chief Justice, Lord Woolf of Barnes, has criticised a new legal practice course set up by Nottingham Law School, the BPP Law School and the Oxford Institute of Legal Practice for eight...
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Lancaster murder
Lorraine Roseanna Price, a 44-year-old single mother and mature student whose body was found on Sunday morning at Lancaster University's Furness College, had recently completed a degree and was ready...
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Anderson apologises
Oxford University scientist Sunetra Gupta has received an undisclosed sum of money, her legal costs and a full apology from Roy Anderson. Professor Anderson admitted making a false allegation about...
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Natfhe accepts offer
College lecturers have accepted their annual pay offer for the first time in six years. Lecturers' union Natfhe's national executive has accepted this year's 3.3 per cent deal by 13 to eight, after...
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Dons warn over constitution
The tradition of open discussion by Cambridge academics on all matters of university policy and topics of concern is under threat. The university council wants to cut the length of individual...
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Staff paid to retrain
Lancaster University is to investigate the learning needs of its staff as part of the Department for Education and Employment's campaign to promote the benefits of lifelong learning in the workplace...