Sudden staff redundancy queried
A governor of Portsmouth University has asked the Higher Education Funding Council to investigate the college because of concern over the sudden redundancy of the deputy vice chancellor, whom staff...
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East End job plan launched
Unemployed graduates in London's East End will soon be able to enrol on an innovative job-seeking scheme run by the local Training and Enterprise Council. Gradplan is being offered by London East TEC...
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Fulbright killers get 18 years
Three black South Africans who stabbed, stoned and bludgeoned American exchange student Amy Biehl to death in a Cape Town shanty town last year have each been sentenced to 18 years in jail for what...
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Trojan horse mired in A-level mud
Vocational and academic. You might have thought we would have learned by now. But no. With the millennium fast approaching, these remain poles apart, like chalk and cheese. Worse still, there are few...
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Remember, remember November
The current debate about the university year, provoked by the move towards modular courses and semester-based teaching, has focused on an early September start. But why is nobody taking seriously the...
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Past Masters
David Weatherall pays tribute to the man who asked him to eat asparagus in the name of research, Cyril Clarke When I obtained my medical degree from Liverpool University in 1956 I was, as cell...
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First and last
(Photograph) - First and last: the launch of Inter-Arc, an electronic media network that forms part of the Arc Atlantique project promoting tourism, maritime communications and the environment, took...
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Squabbles break out on training
Training and Enterprise Council chiefs have challenged further education college leaders to provide them with hard evidence of TECs running courses in direct competition with further education...
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Yellow cards in action
University departments that fail any aspect of new quality assessment gradings will face funding council sanctions unless they can show an improvement within a year. This week the Higher Education...
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Quality chief condemns drain on resources
A Higher Education Quality Council director has condemned the sector's so-called quality industry as a drain on vital resources which "is itself threatening quality." John Bull, vice chancellor of...
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Miller's house
(Photograph) - Miller's house: Queen's Building, at the University of East Anglia, has just won a Royal Institute of British Architects regional award. The building combines schools of occupational...
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Head found
The long-awaited appointment of a chief executive to head the new Teacher Training Agency was announced by the Department for Education this week. The post has been filled by Anthea Millet, director...
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Extra funding
Universities have been invited to bid for extra funds for special library collections and the Computers in Teaching Initiative. The four national funding bodies plan to add two new CTI centres to the...
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Boucher at UMIST
The new principal and vice-chancellor of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology will be Bob Boucher, now pro vice chancellor of the University of Sheffield. He is a...
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In the Spink
Another engineer on the up is Robert Spink, newly appointed parliamentary private secretary to Ann Widdecombe, secretary of state for employment. Now MP for Castle Point in Dorset, he has a first in...