Awards chief puts jon on the line
KEN MACRAE, chief executive of the Student Awards Agency for Scotland, this week told the House of Commons select committee on Scottish affairs that he would consider resigning if last year's grants...
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Dunstable college gets into bed with Herts
THE first full merger between a university and a further education college has been approved by the Further Education Funding Council's eastern regional committee. The national reorganisation...
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University to take over Catholic training
GLASGOW University and St Andrew's College, Scotland's only Roman Catholic teacher education college, agreed this week to submit merger proposals to Scottish Secretary Donald Dewar. They propose that...
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AoC board refuses to stand down over Ward
THE BOARD of the Association of Colleges is standing firm in the face of calls from more than 150 principals for it to stand down after the unresolved Roger Ward affair. Chairman Jim Scrimshaw said...
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Malcolm Dando
Malcolm Dando, professor of Peace Studies at Bradford, has been awarded Pounds 75,850 by the Joseph Rowntree Memorial Trust to work on strengthening the current international agreement on the control...
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Joining bonuses boost graduate prospects
JOB prospects for graduates are the best this decade, according to research from pay analyst Incomes Data Services. Large employers intend to increase graduate recruitment by 17 per cent this year,...
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Student takes Cambridge to High Court
A student is taking Cambridge University to the High Court to challenge its "old boys" disciplinary procedures. Kamran Beg, 26, was found guilty at a university tribunal of plagiarism and not awarded...
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THES survey of vice chancellors' pay
The THES survey of vice chancellors' pay (February 6) contained three errors and one omission. Geoffrey Copland, vice chancellor and rector of the University of Westminster, did not receive a pay...
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Lordly poker players sit it out
THE House of Lords could still strike down a fundamental element in the Teaching and Higher Education Bill. The opposition parties believe they may have the votes necessary to remove Clause 18, the...
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Experts to foster creative thinking
THE MAN who will head a government think-tank on creative thinking said its job was to look at the conditions under which innovative ideas thrive, not to teach them. Ken Robinson, professor of arts...
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It's official: grammar's gone downhill
POPULAR claims that graduates can no longer spell or present a coherent argument have some foundation, according to new research that has uncovered a decline in literacy among students, particularly...
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Good teaching carrot
How to reward universities financially for excellence in teaching is for the first time a subject of a new funding council committee study, chaired by Ron Cooke, vice-chancellor of York University....
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Euro-science infighting
Europe's Council of Ministers was meeting yesterday to consider the amended Fifth Framework Programme for science research. Debate was expected to focus on a legal threat to the European Commission's...
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Goodfella seduced by sin
A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese through American Movies
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Le roman c'est lui
Victor Hugo