Adviser warns of sub-degree peril
SUB-DEGREE qualifications could come under threat from Government plans to charge students up-front tuition fees, a leading adviser to the National Committee of Inquiry has warned, writes Harriet...
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Commons inquiries home in on big issues
THE PARLIAMENTARY education and employment committee will carry out an inquiry into issues arising from the Dearing review of higher education, including tuition fees, in the autumn. It is due to...
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Luton appoints finance director
THE UNIVERSITY of Luton has appointed a new finance director, a year after discovering a surprise Pounds 1 million hole in its budget. Philip Harding, director of finance and information at the...
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British Council rubbishes Indian court order
THE BRITISH Council has dismissed a court order to restrict British institutions' work in India as "paranoid" and "misinformed". The Madras High Court has asked Leeds University, Durham University...
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Lawyers should train for life, says advisory team
ALL LAWYERS should be forced to have formal training throughout their careers, according to the Lord Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct. It wants the Law Society and the...
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Dobson issues health warning on fees
HEALTH secretary Frank Dobson is understood to have warned education officials that plans to charge Pounds 1,000 annual university tuition fees might undermine attempts to attract students into the...
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Nolan sets sights on higher education
FURTHER and higher education funding councils and representative bodies of universities and colleges are to be quizzed by the Nolan Committee on what they are doing to become more open and...
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Ulster vice chancellor set for House of Lords
HIGHER education is to win another voice in the House of Lords, with Sir Trevor Smith, vice chancellor of Ulster University, set to receive a peerage next month. Sir Trevor, who will be a Liberal...
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Laptops cost piles on agony
THE GOAL of a laptop computer for every student by 2006 will put financial burdens on undergraduates and institutions, technology experts have warned. Delegates to a conference last week on "IT and...
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Retirement row rages
COLLEGE employers have blamed trade union campaigning for ending early retirement options for hundreds of lecturers, writes Alan Thomson. The Association of Colleges said it was "extremely...
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16-19 curriculum is 'misunderstood'
Higher education institutions have a "depressing" understanding of developments in the 16-19 curriculum, especially in their relationship with the Advanced level General National Vocational...
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Government introduce "beefed-up" criteria for NVQs
* The Government introduced "beefed-up" criteria and a tougher quality code of practice for National Vocational Qualifications this week, in a bid to meet criticisms of the qualification. Education...
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Big brother tracks porn addicts
BIG brother is watching out for students using pornographic web sites or playing games on the computer network when they should be studying, writes Harriet Swain. Most institutions have the software...
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On the job beats enrolment
Britain's "expensive and incomprehensible" education system, with too many students in full-time schooling and mass higher education, is failing to met its economic and social needs, according to a...
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Clapping at the end
Sir Ron Dearing may well have been quaking in his boots when he met over 100 student activists just two days after announcing plans to sting their successors for thousands of pounds in tuition fees....