The right to say no to the auditors
Many senior managers will have been surprised that Cambridge University does not wish to involve itself in the Quality Assurance Agency's continuation audit process (THES, January 30). The QAA...
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The right to say no to the auditors
THE apparent refusal of Cambridge University to acquiesce in its continuation audit by the Quality Assurance Agency must come as welcome news to all who believe, like me, that British higher...
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Bill amendments
Liberal Democrat amendments for report stage of Teaching and Higher Education Bill. Clause 16 Amendments by Lord Tope call for: * loans to be extended to part-time students on or before April 1, 2000...
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The right to say no to the auditors
As chair of the British Association for American Studies I have been pressing the Quality Assurance Agency to take account of the view of Americanists in their new plans for subject expert teams (...
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Fellowships
London School of Economics and Political Science The following were elected as honorary fellows of the school: Pat Barker, author and winner of the Booker Prize for Fiction; Nicholas Garganas, deputy...
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Chairs
University of Southampton W. Jenkins, formerly with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, chemical oceanography; T. Kendrick, former clinical coordinator of the South Thames General Practice Research...
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Clinton fuels R&D for jobs and progress
THE CLINTON administration is proposing to spend $170 billion (Pounds 106 billion) of government money on research and development in the next five years, billing its "21st Century Fund" as the new...
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Admission figures fall in teaching
PRIMARY teacher training courses have experienced a more than 15 per cent fall in applications, the latest figures show. Similar falls in the number of applicants for degrees or diplomas in social...
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MOD in health contract spat
THE MINISTRY of Defence has awarded Portsmouth University Pounds 600,000 to train its nurses just months after the National Health Service withdrew a similar contract. A spokesman for Portsmouth...
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Student nurse fraud detected
A STUDENT admissions fraud squad has uncovered evidence of a large number of bogus applications for places on nursing courses. It comes just as the verification unit of the Universities and Colleges...
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Child-proof
(Photograph) - Child-proof: pets help put Piaget to the test. Children aged two to five from Swansea University's creche and local primary schools are helping final-year psychology student Charlotte...
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Don's Diary
Sunday Arrive in Hong Kong. It has been three years since I returned to the United Kingdom after 18 years in Hong Kong and a year since my last visit. Red flags proclaim China's ownership. Later this...
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One-size tuition fee does not fit all
Someone once said that the difference between life and death is change. The person probably had the United Kingdom's system of higher education in mind. Nothing is ever quite settled or taken for...
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The price of market freedom
Universities around the world are increasingly enjoined to behave like businesses, and this trend is certain to continue. For one thing, public funding for further and higher education will continue...
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Tutors' research conflict 'inflated'
New research from Oxford Brookes University is re-opening the debate about the relationship between teaching and research. Universities have begun to re-examine whether it is necessary for good...