Students angered by tuition fees success claims
Student leaders were angered this week after a government minister used small rises in student numbers as proof that its policy on tuition fees policy and scrapping grants is working, writes Alan...
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Fears as skills bill debate is planned
MPs look set to debate the role of universities amid fears that the government is wrong to exclude higher education from its Learning and Skills Bill. Lifelong learning minister Malcolm Wicks...
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Degrees boosted by apprenticeships
Students will be offered the chance of work-based apprenticeships from this autumn in a bid to produce employees who combine university-level knowledge with business sense and generic key skills,...
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Abolition of tuition fees leads to rush of applicants for Scottish places
Henry McLeish, Scotland's minister for enterprise and lifelong learning, has welcomed the dramatic rise in the number of Scottish higher education applications as stemming from the Scottish Executive...
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Deadline extension gives students time to get it right
University applicants would be given more time to apply for places under proposals being considered by admissions tutors. At their annual conference in Aberystwyth last week, admissions officers...
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Is social work becoming an outcast?
Poor pay, stressful working conditions and a bad press are deterring would-be social workers. Claire Sanders discovers a profession in crisis Applications to study social work have more than halved...
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High-flying girls show late fall-out
High-flying female pupils in Scotland are less likely to go into higher education than high-flying males, despite being equally likely to apply, Edinburgh University researchers have found. Teresa...
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Scots examine sex inequality
Amid national concern over gender and racial discrimination in pay and appointments, Edinburgh University is publishing what it believes is the most thorough and wide-ranging analysis of staff in any...
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ACCA embarrassment
'Mr Carr conducted the appeal without a copy of the disciplinary procedure when the applicant was raising numerous breaches of it' A second major embarrassment has hit the Association of Chartered...
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Newi staff voice 'harassment' distress
Funding council officials investigating allegations of mismanagement at the North East Wales Institute on behalf of the Welsh Assembly may wish to consider the findings of the college's own senior...
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Natfhe investigates fears of falling standards
Lecturers' union Natfhe is to conduct a wholesale audit of teaching and working conditions at the University of Lincolnshire and Humberside, following The THES's revelations that external examiners...
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Nationwide overhaul on the cards as spotlight focusses on training
The education of social workers is undergoing radical changes, with a number of bodies seeking to define what social workers do and to set standards: The Care Standards Bill will strengthen...
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Rover's rebuff
Imagine the shock of thousands of devoted Coronation Street fans, desperate to discover whether bar owner Natalie is to be charged with the murder of her son, and who, instead of connecting with the...
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Hefce responsibilities
A wall of folded arms greeted Sir Michael Partridge, chair of governors of Middlesex University, when he addressed the Higher Education Funding Council for England's annual conference in Birmingham...
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Twice as vice
A reminder that entries are still sought for our competition to help the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals find a new and funkier name. Suggestions so far concentrate on apt acronyms -...