Go east young man
While some papers resound with stories of ex-ministers still looking for work, there is evidence that having worked for the last government is not automatic death in the job market. Conservative...
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Slippery circumstances
The alternative Dearing report? The Big Issue in Scotland has produced a special student guide that includes the low-down from an unnamed "leading tutor at one of Scotland's universities". It begins...
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Moving on up
"Power off. Leaving network." After the election Bryan Davies, once favourite to become higher education minister, said he felt like the message his mobile phone displays at the end of a call....
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Missing in action
Sad goodbyes this week to Peter North, replaced by Colin Lucas of Balliol as Oxford University's vice chancellor. But what of the long-awaited North report?Its whereabouts remain unclear, as North...
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Going down
Glasgow Caledonian University, under investigation following allegations of mismanagement, seems set to drop in at least one league table. Its former principal, Stan Mason, who has just been fired...
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Hard lives
This week's alumni to be proud of, numbers 140 and 141, are living proof that we may have overestimated the cultural effects of education. Norman Tebbit, became a pilot, trade union activist and...
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Durham calls for the doctor
DURHAM University has appointed the chief medical officer, Sir Kenneth Calman, to take over as vice chancellor next year following the retirement ofEvelyn Ebsworth, writes Alison Utley. Sir Kenneth,...
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Group has good chemistry
THE GROUP implementing the new concordat to improve career management for university contract research staff identified key themes for investigation when it met for the first time this week. Sir...
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Skylight
(Photograph) - Artist Kyffin Williams (left), with principal Derek Llwyd Morgan, launch a year-long celebration of 125 years of higher education at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. The launch...
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Checkland aims to open access
THE NEW chairman of the Higher Education Funding Council for England has vowed to make promoting access the key theme of his three-year appointment. Sir Michael Checkland, 61, former director general...
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Alliance to approach Blunkett
Employers and union forge new coalition for cash as further education collges plunge deeper into debt COLLEGE employers have forged an unprecedented alliance with Britain's biggest union to fight for...
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Harlow denies 'record deficit'
Employers and union forge new coalition for cash as further education collges plunge deeper into debt RATIONALISATION and redundancies left Harlow College with the biggest deficit in the English...
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People's short fall cuts reserves
Employers and union forge new coalition for cash as further education collges plunge deeper into debt The oldest college in the country is also the lowest-funded in its region. People's College,...
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Success from a historic miss
The failure of Inverness to win its own university in the 1960s may be seen historically as "very good news" for the north of Scotland, according to Brian Duffield, chief executive of the University...
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Franchise role impresses lifelong learning authors
Universities would be "turned inside-out" and become semi-privatised franchisers of work and community-based education under plans that have impressed the authors behind the government's forthcoming...