Student can sue for low grade
A graduate with a third-class degree has won the right to sue her former university for compensation after she lost most of her final-year course work during a computer failure. Joanne Clark, who in...
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Cash increases as Scots overhaul college spending
Scotland's 47 further education colleges have won an 8 per cent increase on last year's funding for teaching and bursaries. This is the first settlement under the Scottish Further Education Funding...
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Adam Ingram
Northern Ireland minister Adam Ingram has announced an 11.8 per cent funding increase for the province's 17 further education colleges. Core college recurrent funding has risen by 4 per cent, while...
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Grants rise but Welsh HE deficit persists
Almost half of Wales's higher education institutions have fallen into deficit despite increased public funding, putting teaching and research quality at risk, the funding council has warned. Six of...
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E-learning could widen the social divide
Initiatives such as the e-university could further exclude students from the poorest backgrounds, a conference heard this week. Leigh Keeble, a research fellow at the community informatics research...
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Sex and dismissal claims for Edinburgh
A former academic from Edinburgh University's social anthropology department is taking legal action against the university, while a senior staff member has been suspended following allegations of...
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MPs to look at top-up fees
MPs look likely to add top-up fees to their inquiry into higher education. Members of the influential Commons education sub-committee indicated this week that differential undergraduate tuition fees...
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Mature students get more mature
The average age of mature students is increasing, according to latest analysis by the Higher Education Statistics Agency. Based on work used to inform a government-sponsored research project, the...
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Scots told to give scientists a boost
Scotland should give contract researchers a better deal in a bid to boost the science base, a review group has told Henry McLeish, Scotland's minister for enterprise and lifelong learning. Mr McLeish...
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Industry cuts academic ties
A lack of cash and the constraints of quality assessment mean that business schools will no longer be able to deal directly with business, according to Ray Wild, principal of the Henley Management...
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All shook up
Never one to say nay to a good idea, De Montfort University has built up what it believes to be the biggest database in the world on headshaking in horses. This frustrating summertime condition,...
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Going underground
Not satisfied with the opportunity to reduce undergraduates to quivering wrecks in seminars, three academics at the universities of Durham and Teesside have ventured further afield to conduct...
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A dying Eco
It's a good job that Umberto Eco, Italy's most famous intellectual and director of the department of semiotics at the University of Bologna, is a philosophical sort of chap. One of his academic...
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The name game
More suggestions for the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals' new moniker come from Dick Leigh, chair of lecturers' union Natfhe at the University of Westminster. He proposes Top HE Staff...
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David Hargreaves
When he was chief inspector of the Inner London Education Authority in the 1980s, David Hargreaves referred to teaching as "a grumbling profession". His attacks on teacher trainers, educational...