Blunkett aims for 35% participation
LABOUR, which came to office last May committed to expanding higher education, has given the clearest indication yet of its first-term ambition. David Blunkett, secretary of state for education and...
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Sacked principal 'abused power'
Stan Mason, former principal of Glasgow Caledonian University, has been fired for gross misconduct following an inquiry into staffing practices. Professor Mason had been seeking an early retirement...
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Internet Expansion
This week THESIS, The THES Internet Service, is expanding to provide a new service for subscribers. A complete and fully searchable archive of The THES from October 1994 will be available to all...
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Benefits plea for learning
AN assembly meeting of the National Institute for Adult and Continuing Education heard calls for a reform of the benefits system to encourage lifelong learning, writes Alison Utley. Sue Cara,...
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Ex-champion boxer cleared of fraud charge
A FORMER champion boxer has been cleared of a charge of defrauding the university grants system by lying about his academic past. Terry Marsh, 39, a former IBF world light-welterweight boxing...
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Swindon University plans to go ahead
The death of Swindon College principal Clive Brain in the Southall rail disaster last week will not disrupt plans for a new University of Swindon and Wiltshire, his colleagues said this week. Mr...
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Ministry hears Dearing student complaints
The Department for Education and Employment met students and representatives from universities, colleges and the Higher Education Funding Council for England this week to discuss Sir Ron Dearing's...
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V-cs warned on Dearing hopes
A key civil servant behind the Government's forthcoming lifelong learning white paper indicated this week that Sir Ron Dearing's higher education report will have a lower priority than vice...
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Tax errors threaten timetable timetable
THE MEANS tests of hundreds of thousands of students for tuition fees next year could be inaccurate, the British Universities Finance Directors Group has warned. Miles Hedges, the chairman, said the...
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Department of Health announces that it will pay medical and dental students' tuition fees during the fifth and sixth year
The Department of Health announced this week that it will pay all tuition fees for medical and dental students during the fifth and sixth year of their study. Health secretary Frank Dobson said that...
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Master stroke
Robert Stevens, master of Pembroke College, Oxford, is a vociferous champion of top-up fees. "Quality comes at a price," he argued in The Guardian this week, and universities must be given autonomy...
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Rabbi rouser
The position of University of Ulster chancellor Rabbi Julia Neuberger is again under strain, after the university refused to confirm it had withdrawn a statement distancing itself from her comments...
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Spare the Rod
Another hotbed of top-up fees enthusiasm may have an incomplete understanding of who's who in higher education finance. "While universities have been expanding, they have had to do so while coping...
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Bang to rights
Has Robin Cook troubled to send David Blunkett and Tessa Blackstone a copy of the international convention on economic, social and cultural rights to which we have all agreed by the United Kingdom's...
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Down to Earth
Is a Godfather-type feud breaking out in the earth sciences? Earlier this week, vandals chucked a brick through the window of the normally placid Geological Society of London. But the truth is...