* The QAA has asked institutions to comment on plans for a revision of subscription levels. The agency wants to switch from a system with a banded structure based on full-time equivalent student...
* A network of 24 specialist subject centres is to be launched by the Institute for Learning and Teaching at a cost of Pounds 30 million over the next five years. English is the only subject area...
* London's latest academic institution is an affiliate of the private New York University. NYU in London has taken a long lease on a property in Bedford Square, Bloomsbury, and is applying for...
* Parliament's financial watchdog, the Public Accounts Committee, this week condemned a financial scandal at Gwent Tertiary College. Its report, Financial Management and Governance at Gwent Tertiary...
* Stirling University will next month introduce an annual entry point for students. The February entrants will be able to fast-track their way to an honours degree in three-and-a-half years rather...
* A move from a three to five-term year for schools is being considered by a Local Government Association commission launched this week. The proposal would reduce the summer break to four weeks and...
* Colleges will get double the money for educating people on the New Deal from this week, the government has announced. Further education colleges will receive 20 per cent of the cost of every New...
* Details of nearly Pounds 70 million funding for research were announced this week. Under the 1999 round of the Joint Research Equipment Initiative, 230 awards have been made to projects in 53...
* Sir Graeme Davies, principal of Glasgow University, has given four senior education staff until Monday to reconsider their resignations. The four tendered their resignations following growing...
* No longer content with the timeless but passe student pastime of stealing traffic cones and road signs, mischievous undergraduates at Liverpool John Moores University have gone a step too far. "In...
The percentage of eligible sutdents who took a student loan has more than doubled since their introduction. In 1990-91, some 28 per cent of those eligible took a loan. By 1997-98, the figure had...
Institutions must ensure that they are not hit by new laws governing human rights and the gathering of data, warns Alison Goddard If one of your students owes the university money, what do you do?...
The Data Protection Act could ban certain types of research in the social sciences. Research involving processing sensitive personal data could be halted. For example, if researchers wanted to follow...
The Times Higher Millennium Magazine was a magnificent effort (THES, December 24/31, 1999). I enjoyed the articles and found the chronologies very useful. May I draw your attention to an error in the...
I was very concerned to read a letter ("Imperial versus imperious", THES, December 24/31, 1999) from Nick Huismans critical of admissions procedures at Churchill College and the interview I had with...