Big Brother was initially touted as a social experiment, but Channel Four backed off when the notion came under attack. It is not a scientific experiment. There are no controlled conditions. But it...
A body is needed to remove the risk of pointing out unethical behaviour, say Herbert Arst and Mark Caddick. Suppose while reading a scientific publication you spot data that you have good reason to...
Funding chiefs are sitting on about £30 million allocated for university places that failed to materialise. The money will stay in the Higher Education Funding Council for England's coffers for the...
Charities back away from Nottingham The Association of Medical Research Charities has asked Nottingham University to delete a press release with the headline “Association of Medical Research...
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A merger between the two main lecturers' unions was back on the agenda this week after the Association of University Teachers lost its general secretary, David Triesman, to the Labour Party. Natfhe...
The Learning and Skills Council has its work cut out to rescue work-based education and training from mediocrity and often outright failure, according to a report by David Sherlock, chief inspector...
Universities cannot redress gender or ethnic imbalances among trainee teachers because they have too little choice about whom to take, a top educationist claims. Tables compiled by Alan Smithers and...
University leaders have won their war against the quality inspectors with a quality-assurance blueprint that strikes a blow for institutional autonomy and all but abolishes teaching quality...
THES reporters look at the distortions caused by the student finance system. The National Union of Students Scotland is stepping up its campaign for fees to be axed and grants reinstated across the...
THES reporters look at the distortions caused by the student finance system. Student finance is "socially regressive" and "complex, confusing and bureaucratic", say the left-leaning think-tank the...
THES reporters look at the distortions caused by the student finance system. Universities are being forced to deny opportunity bursaries to thousands of poor students because they do not live in the...
Newcastle University's plans to get into the top ten of Britain's elite universities are expected to cost up to 300 jobs. Confirming radical restructuring plans to raise £6 million a year for...
Academics and support staff at University College Northampton are stepping up a campaign to fight the threat of 22 compulsory redundancies, writes Tony Tysome. UCN managers have said the job cuts are...
Universities should concentrate engineering provision in a few centres of excellence, industry chiefs said this week after new figures showed graduate numbers down by a fifth. The Engineering...