Man charged with degree forgery
Police have arrested a man for selling counterfeit degree certificates through the internet. After a ten-month inquiry, Merseyside police seized computer equipment and fake exam certificates from a...
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Recruiting drive for 700,000 extra students
Colleges are expected to recruit almost as many extra students in 2000 as in the previous three years. The Department for Education and Employment has told the Further Education Funding Council that...
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Expansion gives rich pickings to colleges
Further education colleges have added to last week's Pounds 725 million windfall by becoming beneficiaries of a Pounds 776 million cash boost for higher education. Education secretary David Blunkett...
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Councils act to level research field
The funding councils are to modify the research assessment exercise yet again - this time to ensure that interdisciplinary research is fairly treated. Half of university researchers think that the...
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Picasso and peace
(Photograph) - The Bernal Picasso, the only mural Picasso drew in England, was unveiled at Birkbeck College this week to mark the start of the college's 175th anniversary celebrations. The work,...
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Green high-tech wins awards
Proposals for green alternatives to cement and ice skates are among the 18 winners of the new government Foresight Link awards. The awards, which were launched at the end of last year, are the first...
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Engineers furious as faculties face axe
At least two civil engineering departments at London universities face closure, with the loss of five or more academic jobs. Falling student numbers in the subject and new regulations from the...
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Huddersfield silences modern languages
Students in Huddersfield University's department of modern languages were shocked to discover this week that they would be forced to transfer to another university to complete their degree....
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Scottish unions clash over pay bargaining positions
Scotland's two leading higher education unions have clashed over the future of pay bargaining after devolution. Delegates from the two unions attended a "People's Assembly on Education", called by...
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FE ombudsman plan dismissed
The government has rejected calls by an all-party committee of MPs for a further education ombudsman, Phil Baty writes. The House of Commons' Select Committee for Education said in its report on...
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Action at Cricklade
Industrial action is imminent at Cricklade College as staff protest against the sacking of whistleblower Andrew Murray and two union colleagues. Members of lecturers' union Natfhe last week voted for...
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Halton pays lecturer over sex discrimination
Troubled Halton College, already facing a claw-back of funds after an investigation into the misuse of public money by the Further Education Funding Council, has just paid Pounds 30,000 in...
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Leicester logs up five tribunal cases
Lawyers for Leicester University are very busy. According to the employment tribunal central register, at least five industrial tribunal cases are logged against the university. They include claims...
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Top colleges can seek light inspection regime
The Further Education Funding Council has invited high-performing colleges to apply for a special status that would lessen the burden of regular quality inspections and reward them as role models....
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'Oh little gas giants of Bethlehem...'
The Birth of Christ