Scientists call for five-year RAE cycle
THE research assessment exercise should be undertaken every five, not four years, says the pressure group Save British Science. This would give adequate funding stability to help bridge gaps in more...
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Masterly dispute
A SET of minimum standards to check quality in the burgeoning market for the masters of business administration qualification will be launched by the Association of Business Schools in May. The move...
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Staff need experience
COLLEGES should find more work experience for lecturers, according to a report from the Further Education Development Agency. The report, Learning with Business, said that staff secondments to...
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Lack of drive identified
SMALL businesses say that graduates "lack motivation and drive", according to research from London's Training and Enterprise Council. Almost 90 per cent of London's small and medium-sized enterprises...
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Cash for business ties
Ten universities in Yorkshire and Humberside have clinched a deal worth more than Pounds 10 million as part of a joint bid for European Union business support. Combined with money raised locally,...
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It's good to win
NAPIER University has won a Pounds 48,000 BT University Development Award for its work towards quantifying students' part-time work into accredited units of degree courses. Work such as part-time bar...
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TV-struck president aims for political stage
Harriet Swain looks at the candidates vying to be president at next week's NUS conference Things have happened around Douglas Trainer. His election as president of the National Union of Students in...
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Quality plans are up AUT's street
PLANS for a new quality assurance system have won a cautious welcome from university heads and lecturers. They have signalled their support for replacing the teaching quality assessment regime with a...
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V-cs may steer students away from UK
Vice-chancellors are considering redirecting some European students away from Britain to universities in other countries that also teach in English. The move comes in response to government concerns...
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Sadness slows athletes down
THES reporters on the British Psychological Society's annual conference held in Brighton this week DEPRESSION can trigger a complex psychological mindset that leads to poor sports performance,...
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Lectures
Goldsmiths, University of London The following inaugural lectures have been arranged: April 28, Nick de Ville, professor of visual arts "Ways of seeing and the pleasures of the visual"; May 5, Martin...
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Select schools lead to best jobs
Schooling is a predictor of student choice of subject, as well as of university, a new study has found. Destined for Success? Educational biographies of academically able pupils looked at the...
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History man in jail
Akinjide Oshuntokun, head of the history department at the University of Lagos, has been held without charge for eight weeks by Nigeria's State Security Service. Professor Oshuntokun was intercepted...
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Scottish student leaders defeat grants demand
The leadership of the National Union of Students Scotland has fought off an attack on its student support campaign. An amendment by Glasgow Caledonian University, which accused the union of betraying...
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Universities could face annual shortfall warns NUS
Universities could face an annual shortfall of up to Pounds 31 million through parents not supporting their children's education, NUS has warned. Its figures are based on estimates of parents'...