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THESIS, The THES Internet Service, now has a new service for subscribers. A complete and fully searchable archive of The THES from October 1994 is available to all subscribers to the newspaper, who...
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Call for twin quality watchdog
COLLEGES should adopt the same quality assurance regime as schools, Sir Robert Gunn, chairman of the Further Education Funding Council, has told the government. Sir Robert has urged education...
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Wellcome Trust raises infrastructure grants
The Wellcome Trust is raising by more than 30 per cent the amount it ringfences for spending on research infrastructure and equipment in universities and institutes in the United Kingdom despite its...
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Europe aims to match degree quality data
The European Union council is aiming to agree on quality assurance in higher education this year to aid the movement of students and academics across Europe. There will be no common European standard...
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MPs probe into educational access
MPs are to investigate access to education in the light of Sir Ron Dearing's report and government plans to change student funding and introduce tuition fees. The education and employment select...
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SNP calls for equal student treatment
THE Scottish National Party says it would cost the government at most only Pounds 250,000 a year to end the anomaly whereby English, Welsh and Northern Irish students will pay more to study in...
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Warning against New Zealand 'Lego'
Britain should learn from the mistakes New Zealand has made in modularising qualifications for 16 to 19-year-old education, says Alan Smithers, director of Brunel University's centre for education...
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Private finance for London hospital merger
One of the largest estate deals involving the private sector in higher education has been struck with London's King's College and the United Medical and Dental School of Guys and St Thomas's...
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Remorse and the psychopath
A study into the emotions of psychopaths has won Medical Research Council support. Researchers at University College, London, will try to understand why psychopaths are aggressive and feel no remorse...
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Chemistry lecturers offered cash carrot
THE Royal Society of Chemistry is offering three awards worth Pounds 250 each for outstanding teaching and/or developing innovative materials or teaching methods in chemistry higher education....
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Plea to amend Nolan misconduct law
THE statutory offence, misuse of public office, proposed by the Nolan committee on standards in public life in July last year, should exclude members of further education corporations, the...
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Wake up and toughen up, Lib Dems tell v-cs
Vice chancellors came under a surprise attack this week from Liberal Democrats urging a tougher high-profile stand against the Teaching and Higher Education Bill. Phil Willis, the Liberal Democrat...
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Call to punish race bias
COLLEGES should have their teacher training accreditation withdrawn if they fail to tackle ethnic discrimination, the Commission for Racial Equality has said. Sir Herman Ouseley, chairman of the...
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Flexible course starting in offing
AN OVERHAUL of university admissions is in the pipeline to allow students to start courses at different times of the academic year. Officials at the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service have...
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Primary training numbers plummet
Applications for places on undergraduate primary teacher training courses have dropped by almost a quarter, it emerged this week. Latest figures from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service...