Theft alert after 'gang' strikes
Universities and colleges have been warned to be on their guard after thieves broke into Edinburgh University and stole expensive computer hardware. The Higher Education Funding Council for England...
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Derby follows merger trend as FE awaits learning and skills councils
One of further education's biggest institutions will be created next year under new proposals to merge three colleges in Derby. Funding chiefs say the move reflects a trend towards the development of...
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Diana is back in the frame at Kingston
Andre Durand marked the end of his tenure as artist-in-residence at Kingston University with the unveiling of his controversial allegorical posthumous portrait of Diana, Princess of Wales, as the...
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Part-timers cut pay bill by Pounds 50m
Universities are saving about Pounds 50 million a year by illegally exploiting an army of hourly paid lecturers, trade union Natfhe says. A Natfhe survey extrapolates that more than 15,000 part-time...
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Don in Swansea sex harassment case resigns
Swansea University's head of philosophy, Laurence Goldstein, has resigned in the face of charges of sexual harassment and the intimidation of colleagues. The university has confirmed this week that...
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Probability points to fraud
Statisticians have devised a simple model for detecting cheating in multiple-choice exams. The system scans through test results to identify copying. George Wesolowsky, a management scientist at...
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Agony aunt
I always face a sea of new student faces at the start of term. Any tips on how I can remember their names and identities? * Lorraine Stefani, Reader in academic practice, University of Strathclyde It...
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Running man
(Photograph) - David Howe, a lecturer in the anthropology of sport at Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education and a cerebral palsy sufferer, will run in the 5,000 metres for his native...
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Doors still closed to ethnic minorities
If qualifications and experience are anything to go by, Rajinder Mann should now be one of further education's rising stars. In a sector that has been urged by education secretary David Blunkett to...
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Victim wins protection
Whistleblowers can be protected against victimisation even if they raised the alarm before public interest disclosure laws came into force last year, a tribunal chair has ruled. Setting a precedent...
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Mind you don't get caught in the act
Will the Human Rights Act spell the end of the visitor system and herald a host of lawsuits from aggrieved students? Alison Utley finds out University registrars are divided over what the Human...
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Glittering prizes
Zhengxiao Guo, reader in materials at Queen Mary and Westfield College, has been awarded the Beilby Medal by the Society of Chemical Industry. The University of Wolverhampton has awarded an honorary...
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On the move
The UK Council for Graduate Education has set up a working party to examine research training in creative and performing arts and design. It has been convened by Elaine Thomas, director of the Surrey...
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In the news
Simon Schama, professor of art history and history at Columbia University, New York, admitted to feeling "sheepish" at the launch earlier this month of his ambitious BBC television series, A History...
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Law of the sea
What is it about rowing and the law? James Cracknell, a member of the coxless four who paddled to gold in the Sydney Olympics, is due to start a law conversion course at the College of Law on his...