Iran renews educational links with west
Iran is planning to boost hospitality and tourism through a ground-breaking agreement between its main hotel and tourism training centre, INSTROCT, and Strathclyde University. This is the first...
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Highlands university gets Pounds 2.5 million boost
Scottish education minister Brian Wilson has pledged a further Pounds 2.5 million for the University of the Highlands and Islands project following a Scottish Office evaluation of its work. The bulk...
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Queen Margaret gains full university powers
Edinburgh's Queen Margaret College has won the right to confer its own research degrees from Monday. The decision makes Queen Margaret the first Scottish higher education college to make the same...
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OU wins CHUMS support for fast-track medicine
The Open University's plans for a medical foundation course for non-science graduates wanting to become doctors this week took a major step forward. A meeting of the Council of Heads of University...
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Foreign Office launches SE Asian student fund
The Foreign Office this week announced a Pounds 6.6 million scholarship fund to help South-east Asian students at British universities following the region's financial collapse. Higher education...
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Ulster U appoints professor of women's studies
Ulster University senior lecturer Monica McWilliams, founder of the Women's Coalition, which had a prominent role in the Northern Ireland peace talks, has been appointed professor of women's studies...
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FEDA cuts costs ahead of Commons critique
Plans to make the Further Education Development Agency more cost-effective have been announced just weeks before the House of Commons education select committee is expected to denounce the agency as...
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AoC claims government funds will fall short
In a submission to the Commons education and employment select committee, which is looking at widening participation, the Association of Colleges has said "substantially greater investment" must be...
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University denies 'dumbing down' policy
Heriot-Watt University has rejected allegations that it has allowed students to pass courses with marks as low as 13 per cent to boost completion rates. According to principal John Archer, "Any...
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Student settles out of court over study aid
An Aberdeen University student who was suing his estranged mother for a contribution towards his living costs has reached a confidential out-of-court settlement. Patrick Macdonald, a third-year law...
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EPSRC to revise training
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council is planning to revolutionise its masters-level training programme with the introduction of new "training packages". The EPSRC supports about 1,...
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CBI reviews funding split
A new model for distributing university research funding to a narrower band of universities has been proposed by the Confederation of British Industry, writes Julia Hinde. The CBI has written to the...
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Unions in sackings row
Lecturers' union Natfhe has come under fire from staff at the University College of St Mark and St John, Plymouth, over its handling of a row over whistleblowing. One Natfhe member has quit the union...
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Portable credits a step closer
STUDENTS could find it easier to transfer between universities under a national qualifications grid that a government-funded steering group has hammered out. The Committee of Vice-chancellors and...
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Birthday bash
(Photograph) - Comedian Ben Elton flew off to the Cannes Film Festival after joining his father, Lewis Elton, at celebrations to mark the fifth birthday of the Staff and Educational Development...