Scots face 2.75% cut in funding
SCOTTISH higher education faces a 2.75 per cent cut in real terms for next session under Scottish Office plans. This compares to a real terms cut of almost 6 per cent under the Tories' public...
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Brian Wilson instructs SHEFC to be "flexible" next session
Scottish education minister Brian Wilson has instructed SHEFC to be "flexible" if institutions under-recruit next session. Mr Wilson said concern about tuition fees and maintenance grants had been "...
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Principals rule out own debt collection agency
SCOTTISH principals have abandoned plans to set up their own debt collection agency to recover fees from students next session. A working group chaired by Martin Lowe, secretary of Edinburgh...
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Heads predict fees toll
secondary school headteachers in Scotland believe the government's student support proposals will undermine equal access and lead to a drop in applications to higher education. University student...
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V-cs fear government power over fees
MINISTERS will have the power to control fees charged to post-graduate and part-time students unless wording in the new teaching and higher education bill is changed, vice chancellors have warned....
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Door open to privatisation of student loans
Student loans could be privatised under the bill, according to Nick Barr, economist with the London School of Economics and joint architect of radical proposals to privatise loans. The bill gives the...
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No provision for humanities research council
Heads of art and design schools and colleges are concerned that the bill gives no indication that the government intends to establish a research council for the arts and humanities. Such a council,...
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Cambridge creates senior lecturer post
Cambridge University intends to promote 40 per cent of its lecturers to a new post of senior lecturer, at an initial cost of Pounds 750,000, to quell protests over its record for promoting academic...
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Applications decline
With just a weekend to go to the deadline for applications to the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service, numbers are understood to be down by about 8 per cent. The Committee of Vice...
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Facing harsh reality
Photography. The way we conceptualise pictures, the media's use of disturbing images, and surreal selling A MANCHESTER Metropolitan University researcher has defended hard-hitting documentary...
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Oxbridge eyes deal on access
OXFORD and Cambridge universities may enter a gentlemen's agreement to increase their numbers of state school students as a condition of keeping part of the Pounds 35 million subsidy for college fees...
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Euro award
Middlesex University MA students Amanda Clarke, Tania Hurst and Flora Pereira won second prize in the further and higher education category of the EC Multimedia Awards for Choke, a combined CD-Rom...
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Deadlock
(Photograph) - A mock funeral was one of several events staged last week by students across the country protesting against government plans to levy tuition fees. In Bristol, students marched from the...
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Bullies give birth
A rare insight into the weird and wonderful word of bullying in university law departments came from the Birmingham Industrial Tribunal this week. Justifying its award of record damages to Manchester...
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Leader in a pickle
Student union members worried about their national president, Douglas Trainer's, lack of commitment to the NUS's official policy of an outright rejection of government plans for student tuition fees...