Fears over supply of design trainees
The Engineering Council has expressed "grave concerns" over the government's failure to address a severe shortage of teacher trainees in design and technology and its plans to "considerably dilute"...
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Disabled claim victory
Two disabled vice-principals dismissed from Stratford-upon-Avon College have won an out-of-court payment, six months after Whistleblowers exposed their treatment. John Holland, who is registered...
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Bidders battle for bits 'n' bobs
The government is tightening its grip on what universities do with their money. Alison Goddard reports Two months ago, the Higher Education Funding Council for England wrote to all institutions...
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Abidjan
A court in Cote d'Ivoire has sentenced ten students to five years in jail with hard labour and no option of a fine for damage to state property, arson and wilful disturbance of public order during...
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Freedom for the fittest
In Scotland, there is a general expectation that higher education will come under the Scottish Parliament's close scrutiny. But many educationists believe this will lead to a greater understanding of...
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Lampeter plugs Welsh
Students can now learn Welsh on the internet from the University of Wales, Lampeter. Designed as a pathway to higher education in Wales, the course enables beginners to progress to the fluency...
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Next week
Francis Fukuyama on The Great Disruption caused by feminism. His book is reviewed by John Dunn. RESEARCH Unesco World Science Conference in Budapest BOOKS Desmond Tutu celebrates a life of Trevor...
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Bett report ready for publication
The Bett report on staff pay and conditions in higher education is expected to be published on June 23. A final meeting of committee members agreed a number of amendments, thought to be minor.
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Governors take the punches
Public spending watchdogs worried about imbalance between university autonomy and accountability are under pressure to give the Higher Education Funding Council more powers to intervene, writes Phil...
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The watchdog gets a sharper set of teeth
The short-lived experiment with college autonomy has largely failed, ministers appear to have concluded. Barely six years since colleges were incorporated - liberated from the control of local...
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Glittering prizes
Journalist and broadcaster Beatrix Campbell has been awarded a doctorate of the Open University. Roger Falconer, Hyder professor of environmental water management at Cardiff University; Michael Kelly...
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In the news
As only the second director general of the research councils, John Taylor has been in the job just six months. But he is enjoying it, as befits someone in charge of the biggest ever cash injection...
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On the move
David Drewry, 52, visiting scholar at the Scott Polar Research Institute at Cambridge and former director general of the British Council and president of the International Arctic Science Committee,...
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The THES Diary
Banned practice Penpushers at the Department for Education and Employment have been pondering problems caused by a groovy course at Accrington and Rossendale College - Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in band...
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Rome
Two law faculty researchers at La Sapienza University convicted of the manslaughter of Marta Russo, a student killed by a pistol shot as she walked through the campus in 1997, have been released...