Degree standards dog lighter inspection
Some universities cannot guarantee the standard of their degrees and this will undermine plans for "light-touch" inspections, a quality assurance expert warned this week. Roger Brown, who was chief...
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LJMU faces re-audit
Liverpool John Moores University must prepare for a funding council audit while struggling with finances and possible industrial action over redundancies. The Higher Education Funding Council for...
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Call for universities to get tougher with student unions
A Conservative MP has called for tougher measures to make universities ensure student unions are keeping to the law. Introducing a debate on student unions in the House of Commons, Julian Lewis, MP...
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Row erupts over vote to break from NUS
The National Union of Students has been accused of barring attempts by a local student union to disaffiliate, in an attempt to hold on to hefty membership fees. Students at Southampton University who...
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Complaints code only an 'interim measure'
Uncertainty over the future of the visitorial system for the resolution of disputes in old universities has led the Quality Assurance Agency to concede that its long-awaited code of practice on...
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Audit reveals some Welsh colleges still ignoring best practices
Conflicts of interest, secret decision making, unaccountable leadership and poor control of public money continue to blight college management, according to a report on further education in Wales by...
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Britain to get wider access to digital art
Britain could soon follow the United States in a groundbreaking deal between librarians and copyright societies to make digital images of 20th-century art more widely available to universities and...
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Scottish artists are being sold short
An art college principal accused Scottish funding chiefs of selling young artists and designers short, challenging the Scottish executive to recognise art and design as a higher education priority....
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New arts qualifications set to attract funding and recognition
Dance and drama students will have the chance to join new courses leading to nationally recognised qualifications and possibly attracting financial support. The six new courses, known provisionally...
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To win, Nesta must dare to fail
If the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts is to succeed overall, it must dare to fail on specific projects. So recommended the House of Commons select committee on science and...
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Unidentified fellows
Another senior academic has made false claims about prestigious academic qualifications. Kurt Ziebeck, former head of physics at Loughborough University, has been falsely describing himself as a...
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Cricklade College chief sacked
Cricklade College has sacked its principal Richard Evans for "bringing the college into disrepute". But the troubled Hampshire college stands by its decision to dismiss the whistleblower who brought...
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Middlesex unfair dismissal claim settled
Suzi Clark, the communications chief sacked by Middlesex University after a row over freedom of speech, has settled her claim for unfair dismissal. Ms Clark fell foul of vice-chancellor Michael...
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In the news
Helena Kennedy's trip to Macedonia this week in advance of the Sarajevo stability pact conference will have been a good challenge for the QC's celebrated sense of fairness. Ensuring that the British...
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Don's diary
Sunday It is not every day that a Swiss mountain-resort hotel becomes home to Iranian ayatollahs, mullahs and members of the judiciary and prison services. Heads turn as the ayatollahs and mullahs...