Principal's wife gets her job on merit alone
An Edinburgh University inquiry has dismissed allegations that a post was "conjured up" for Sheena Sutherland, wife of the university principal, Stewart Sutherland, as a precondition of his accepting...
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Watchdogs criticise GNVQ standards
As the CBI meets in Birmingham, Simon Targett reports on the latest developments in training. A Government watchdog this week issued a stinging indictment of the progress of the new vocational A...
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NHS funds to be streamlined with `broad strokes'
The streamlining of National Health Service research money into a single funding channel, as recommended in a major report last month, will have to be a "broad brush" exercise because of the...
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Quality must note technical advances
John Sizer, chief executive of the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council, this week warned that quality assessments must soon begin to take greater account of the use of novel teaching and...
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Islamic group accuses SOAS of `cowardice'
Supporters of an Islamic group barred from promoting its views in the School of Oriental and African Studies responded by accusing the school of "hypocrisy" and "cowardice" this week. "SOAS has...
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Hot metal
Rolls Royce is investing more than Pounds 1 million in a new technology centre at the University of Cambridge. The facility will be based at the department of materials science and metallurgy and...
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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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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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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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Don't even think it
The embezzling organiser of a fund for philosophers portrayed in Tibor Fischer's The Getaway Lunch provides Sideswipe no 89: "There are those who will say I was blocking those with talent from...
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Applied truths
Feedback, the newsletter of Dundee University's department of applied physics and electronic and mechanical engineering, has been plundering the American journal Manufacturing Engineering for one-...
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Teesside tee hee
Never ones to miss out on a craze, the University of Teesside -- the people who brought you adverts in Viz and the peculiar exploits of Teesside Ted and his toilet duck -- have sent out a "Magic Eye...
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Mixed message on vocational parity
The campaign to win parity of esteem with A levels for vocational qualifications was in jeopardy this week after an international audience of educationists in Brighton. Ministers from different...
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Light relief for star gazers
Cambridge astronomers, who have been battling with the sports fraternity over proposed floodlights at the university's new athletics track, have reached a compromise. But a further battle looms over...