Graphic complaint
The "For the record" graphic (THES, March 17) is a "stacked area chart", and the rising lines for full and part-time student numbers suggest both contribute to the growth. But close inspection...
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Hefce auditors demand changes after slatin QAA over governance and accountability
Funding council auditors demanded urgent improvements to management and governance at the Quality Assurance Agency after its first audit. The Higher Education Funding Council demanded immediate...
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Budget brings limited benefits
The budget offered little hope of extra cash for universities, which are already being tempted into closer links with the private sector. In what was clearly a pre-election vote-winning budget,...
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Flea circus at University of Hertfordshire
(Photograph) - It might not be the greatest show on earth, but it might just be the smallest. Richard Wiseman, a psychologist at the University of Hertfordshire, acted as ringmaster for a flea circus...
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Awards for teaching excellence
A score of academics will each be Pounds 50,000 richer by summer, when the results of the first National Teaching Fellowship Scheme are announced. Backed by Pounds 1 million from the Higher Education...
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Plea for cash to tackle racism
Universities are under mounting political pressure to tackle racism, yet vice-chancellors are failing to appreciate this, according to David Triesman, general secretary of the Association of...
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Colleges to play key role in regeneration
Universities and further education colleges in the Midlands have been called upon to play a key role in regenerating the region in the wake of BMW's decision to offload Birmingham-based Rover cars....
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FEFC set to ignore its ombudsman
College funding chiefs were set to defy their ombudsman this week, with a plan to reject his recommendation that they apologise for a "breach of natural justice". John Bevan, the Further Education...
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Arts board to review museum funding
The Arts and Humanities Re- search Board has launched a review of its Pounds 9 million annual funding scheme for university museums and galleries, a move that is likely to reveal chronic underfunding...
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Learning and skills bill sails into storm
The learning and skills bill has sailed through its report stage in the House of Lords and straight into a storm over the anti-homosexuality rule section 28. It took just two days for the 85-page,...
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Parents' fees case collapses in court
A High Court judge dealt a serious blow to a bankrupt couple when he refused to intervene in their case against the Department for Education and Employment over their children's tuition fees. Lawyers...
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Audit Office raps Ulster over credit card scheme
A corporate credit card scheme for senior staff at the University of Ulster has been severely criticised by the Northern Ireland Audit Office. It said there had been a "surprising degree of laxity"...
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Nord Anglia race finding
The millionaire entrepreneur leading the government's private education revolution, Kevin McNeany, encouraged and instigated race discrimination, an employment tribunal found. Mr McNeany's company,...
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Blunkett calls for Derby investigation
Education secretary David Blunkett has asked the Quality Assurance Agency to investigate revelations in The THES that Derby University enrolled students to its courses in Israel without minimum entry...
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Don's diary
Monday A bright morning in New Cross, London. Since September I have been acting head of the Centre for Urban and Community Research. The centre is based in an ornate old building in Laurie Grove...