Ravensbourne gets rid of finance head
Ravensbourne College of Art and Design has dismissed its head of finance for persistent "communication failures". An external accountant from Deloitte Touche is running the Bromley college's finances...
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Take care in JIF bids, Wellcome warns
Universities have been warned not to rush bids for the Pounds 600 million joint infrastructure fund. In a letter to all vice-chancellors, the Wellcome Trust, which is ploughing Pounds 300 million...
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US eclipsed by UK, Australian franchises
More and more British universities are franchising overseas institutions to offer their degrees and other qualifications. The trade is now worth Pounds 250 million a year, says a report from the...
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Female medical first: kids and career
The first university-educated women to have a career and children were medics, according to study of graduates from Girton College, Cambridge. "Even in the 1920s, medics were much more likely to keep...
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Mona
Rex Nettleford, deputy vice-chancellor of the University of the West Indies, in Jamaica, has been appointed vice-chancellor in succession to Sir Alister McIntyre, who resigned this summer, Professor...
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Istanbul
The ruling authority for Turkish universities, YOK, has announced that it will recognise higher education qualifications from neighbouring Azerbeijan. This is part of a policy to increase ties with...
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Quality troubles for trainers
Half of work-based training providers have been criticised for "less than satisfactory provision" by the new Training Standards Council. An analysis of the TSC's first 100 inspection reports shows...
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Fairer deal for franchises is in pipeline
Rules to protect further education colleges from unscrupulous deals with higher education institutions were proposed this week by the Higher Education Funding Council for England. In October HEFCE...
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Art, design and engineering split
Most higher education courses provided by further education colleges will be funded at the same level as university courses, the Higher Education Funding Council for England said this week. But HEFCE...
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Colleges' finances in the red
Half of all colleges are operating at a loss, the Further Education Funding Council has revealed. The annual report figures were published this week just as the council called on government to...
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Doubts over who foots the bill for the University for Industry
Colleges may be reluctant to pay towards the government's University for Industry, the Association of Colleges has warned. An AoC policy paper out this week asked: "should colleges pay?" The question...
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New nurses may get L plates after review
The first major review of nursing and midwifery education since it moved into higher education a decade ago could result in newly-qualified nurses being issued with notional L plates. The United...
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Cure sought for medical ills
The perception that medical career paths are dissuading young doctors from entering academic medicine is to be investigated by the new Academy of Medical Sciences. A working party from the academy is...
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Contract lecturer campaign hots up
Lecturers are to step up their campaign against casualisation in universities after new figures revealed that more than two out of five academics are on fixed-term contracts. The Association of...
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Supply of degrees bigger than demand
Many job applicants need better qualifications than their predecessors, but a third of graduates remain in jobs where a degree is not required, according to research. Francis Green of Kent University...