Maureen Nash was unfairly dismissed
A lecturer who suffered "belittling and humiliating treatment" by her line manager at Skelmersdale College, Lancashire, was unfairly dismissed, a tribunal found. Maureen Nash, a part-time...
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Colleges back landmark tribunal
College managers are to fund an employment tribunal that could test the legitimacy of further education college staff contracts across the country. The case, Ms S. Ralton and others vs Havering...
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Graduate jobs predicted to rise
Demand for graduates and those with vocational skills will continue to rise over the next few years while the long-term decline in blue-collar, manual occupations continues. In its annual review of...
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Student data restricted
The number of applications that prospective students make to each institution will be published just three times each year, the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service has decreed. UCAS had...
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Private colleges compete
Private institutions are trying to recruit local students by undercutting university education costs. Robert Taylor, vice-chancellor of the University of Buckingham, said: "The university is...
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Entry by postcode could fall foul of law
Data protection registrar Elizabeth France has warned institutions that basing admissions on student postcodes could fall foul of the Data Protection Act 1998. She told members of the Universities...
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Institute's ventures fuel Commons debate
Higher education needs to put more effort into recruiting the right governors and training them properly, Michael Bichard, permanent secretary of the Department for Education and Employment, said...
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College empires named
Hundreds of colleges are poaching students in turf wars far outside their local catchment areas, despite a government policy urging them to stick to their localities. Figures released for the first...
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Government exam plan wins mixed response from universities
University admissions tutors have given a cautious welcome to government plans to broaden the sixth-form curriculum. But some institutions warn that depth must not be sacrificed to breadth, writes...
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MPs slam college 'oligarchies'
Colleges were attacked as unaccountable "self-perpetuating oligarchies" by an influential committee of backbench MPs this week, as ministers began a fundamental review of lifelong learning, writes...
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RAE can 'corrupt' research
The research assessment exercise is damaging in both practical and philosophical terms, delegates to a conference on the RAE's intellectual consequences argued this week, writes Harriet Swain....
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Wellcome fights for campus
The Wellcome Trust sought for the second time this week to convince government that its plans to double the size of its genome research facility in Cambridgeshire deserve the go-ahead. The trust...
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The search for cover
Behind closed doors and using sealed bids, Wolverhampton University is choosing a new insurer for its Pounds 100million estate. By the start of the new academic yearthe university wants to have...
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How to Assess student groupwork
WHAT Mike Heathfield describes a method of measuring individual effort without losing the benefit of teamwork. WHY Lecturers need to find a fairer way to allocate grades that reflects the different...
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Poppleton's cash call
Poppleton's v-c, Professor Lapping, (Laurie Taylor, THES, March 19) is quoted as saying that, "At 50 pence per minute this (an 0845 number for students to listen to pre-recorded tutorials) represents...