Hair and taxes evade trimming
Seats of learning:THES reporters profile the key constituencies around the country where the votes of academics and students can make a crucial difference to the outcome of the election THE...
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Industry boss slates engineers rethink
THE ENGINEERING Council has been told to "go back to square one" with its review of engineering training and qualifications by the director general of the Engineering Employers Federation. Called...
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Students prefer bar to rally
THE FOCUS of students' lives has moved from the classroom to halls of residence, bars and clubs, according to a survey of students' lives and attitudes from the 1960s to the present. The size of...
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Robodon: machines may become more intelligent than man, says Kevin Warwick
(Photograph) - Robodon: machines may become more intelligent than man, says Kevin Warwick, professor of cybernetics at Reading University. Accompanied by his thinking dwarf robots, Professor Warwick...
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Teaching in decline, says study
EVIDENCE that undergraduate teaching is being damaged by the powerful research culture of British universities is emerging from new studies. Ian McNay, head of the centre for higher education...
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Euro threat to budgets
MORE money could be drained from further education on top of the crippling cuts to next year's budgets after a ruling by the European Court of Justice. It could mean that organisations, including...
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GMC attacks medics training
MORE emphasis must be placed on the education and training of young doctors in their year of transition from provisional to full registration, says a report by the General Medical Council. The New...
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Unions fight Inverness cuts
UNIONS at Inverness College were yesterday lobbying the board of management against cuts which they claim will see one in six staff lose their jobs, three outlying sites axed, and the curriculum...
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British Library calls for archive work
THE UNITED Kingdom's national libraries should join forces to ensure a more efficient system of collecting published works, according to the British Library. The library says it is no longer possible...
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Natfhe action wave
A WAVE of industrial action is spreading through further education as colleges prepare to bite the bullet on funding cuts. Staff at more than a dozen colleges are taking industrial action, according...
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Governors censure ex-head
FORMER Stoke-on-Trent College boss Neil Preston faces accusations of bullying, serious misconduct and wilful neglect of his duties in a damning governors' report. It says that Mr Preston was fired...
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Yeovil set to strike
LECTURERS at Yeovil College have passed a vote of no confidence in principal Richard Atkins and are set to strike over new contracts. Natfhe members are angry at the imposition of the contracts by Mr...
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Child data centre for Glasgow
The United Nations convention on the rights of the child is the most ratified human rights convention in the world. But intention and reality do not always coincide. The UN has criticised the United...
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Awards rivals trade blows over standards
A feud between two overseas education providers has been condemned by the British Council as "very bad for British education", writes Phil Baty. Alastair Somerville Ford, chief executive of the...
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Freemasons fume as Queen's bans jamboree
Queen's University, Belfast, has become embroiled in a row after cancelling a Freemason's dinner. Members of the two reported Masonic lodges at Queen's claim they have been "scapegoated" by the...