Natfhe strikes ahead
Lecturers' union Natfhe has pledged more industrial action as it seeks local agreements at further education colleges after the breakdown of national contracts talks. The union refused a last-minute...
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New university scrapped
Plans for an independent University of Lincolnshire have been scrapped after a struggle for academic control. The University of Humberside has wrested power from rival bidder Nottingham Trent...
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Loans bite
The British Dental Association has joined the campaign urging the Government to increase student loans to medical, dental and veterinary students. Katy Clarke, association student liaison officer,...
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On the Internet
Teaching quality assessments made by the Welsh and Scottish higher education funding councils will be on our Internet service today together with the results of the 1992 research assessment exercise...
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GNVQ4 could replace HNDs
Higher level General National Vocational Qualifications which could replace Higher National Diplomas and provide a new professional training route are proposed in a consultation paper to be issued to...
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Housework
(Photograph) - Housework: Dana Arnold of the department of fine art at the University of Leeds is director of the new MA in country house studies, whose first intake of 15 students will arrive in...
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Agreement on quality assurance
Vice chancellors and the Higher Education Funding Council for England reached agreement this week on the future of quality assurance in English universities. But there is still concern about details...
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Bees knees
(Photograph) - Bees knees: James Hamill, actor and beekeeper, has won a Queen Elizabeth Scholarship worth Pounds 6,000 to study ways of tackling the disease threatening to wipe out Britain's wild...
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Darned mystery
Fifty years after the Red Army fought its way into Hitler's bunker the manner of the Fuhrer's death and the identification of his body remain in dispute. John Erickson recounts the tales of those...
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Hawaii KO
Rick Perlstein explains why the death of Captain Cook in the Pacific islands in 1779 has triggered an academic storm. It is a quintessential historian's whodunnit. It is also, says Berkeley's Stephen...
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Frogs spawn a research success
In the first of an occasional series John Habgood, Archbishop of York, tells Martyn Kelly about his first academic publication in 1950 in the Journal of Physiology. One of the tasks of moral...
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Partners for better not worse
Phil Walkling wants improved quality control of HE in FE colleges. The English higher education funding and quality councils have each recently produced reports on the relationship between higher...
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It's over to you, Maureen
Letter to Maureen for Professor Lapping, University of Poppleton. Please send Ms Williams along to us at the University of Central Lancashire. She might be interested in applying for our Winifred...
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When a refugee is stranded in funding limbo
Changes to overseas student fees and awards rules will exclude asylum seekers, warns Michael Brophy. Given the number of stories and reports in the media about the plight of Rwandan, Bosnian and...
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Derby day for student funding
Students give up fight for free education", is the headline some would have us believe of the National Union of Students education funding review. But a much more considered process is going on...