V-c's FE appointment fuels merger talk
Further education's top job is to go to David Melville, vice chancellor of Middlesex University, who will take over as chief executive of the Further Education Funding Council, writes Alison Utley....
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Brian Fender
(Photograph) - Enough is enough: Brian Fender, chief executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England told gloomy vice chancellors this week at the council's annual conference in Telford...
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'Racist' IQ book withdrawn
A major publisher made the unprecedented move of withdrawing a book the day before publication this week following controversial comments by its author about IQ and race. A statement from Wiley said...
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Fungi happening at the forum
An estimated 1.5 million species of fungi could greatly benefit medicine, industry and pollution control, according to the British Mycological Society, which held its centenary symposium at Sheffield...
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Asia-Pacific push
Nottingham Trent University has created a Centre for Asia-Pacific Studies to develop research, teaching, community and commercial links with the region. NTU has franchised degree courses in Malaysia...
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Loans change
Ken Young, chairman of the Students Loans Company, is to leave in July after four years. Colin Ward was recently promoted to chief executive.
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It probably won't be you
Mathematician Ian Stewart explains why the National Lottery will almost certainly be won by somebody else. As a mathematician I have an ambivalent attitude towards that instant British institution,...
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Labour group deserts student interests
National Union of Students president Jim Murphy has done his utmost to undermine the NUS policy of free education policy over the past year. And at the annual conference in Blackpool last week, he...
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Universities for what?
The few clues as to how Sir Ron Dearing expects his forthcoming review of UK higher education to shape up include strong indications that he will be looking to see what contribution new technologies...
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The battle for quality
If news of plans emerging from the joint planning group for Britain's new higher education quality agency are correct - and if wiser counsels do not prevail before they are finalised - a hard-won...
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Universities feed religious divide
The Lebanese government, under pressure from powerful religious lobbies, is licensing six new universities, three of them directly run by religious organisations. The decision has led to fierce...
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Kabul campus countdown
It is springtime in Afghanistan where Kabul University has been de-mined and is ready to open. Christine Aziz reports There is very little left of Kabul University. Destroyed and mutilated buildings...
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Don's Diary
MONDAY. Here I am in berserkly Berkeley. After two sabbatical months, I can find my way around at least geographically. My office in the Center for Studies in Higher Education is at the heart of the...
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Greens help consumers beat the meat habit
Slowly but surely Britain is becoming a nation of vegetarians. According to a new study from the University of Manchester, the greatest decline in meat buying has been among women, who were the...