Quality chiefs are concerned about Bournemouth University's rapid expansion of collaborative provision, casting doubt over its ten-year business plan, writes Phil Baty. A Quality Assurance Agency...
Cambridge University might allow top medical academics to moonlight in the private sector to prevent a potential brain drain. The university's general board wants to change the regulations and allow...
Further education's second biggest subject area, business, is facing a recruitment crisis as facilities and staff training fall behind industry needs, inspectors have found. The number of full-time...
St George's and Kingston University From next month, 187 medical students, 35 biomedical science students, 40 physiotherapists, 40 diagnostic radiographers, 12 therapeutic radiographers and 30 nurses...
Universities are misrepresenting whistleblowing laws to try to discourage staff from speaking out to regulatory authorities or to the press, according to experts. They think the attempts will...
They are a canny lot in Leeds Metropolitan University's publicity department - and refreshingly modest about the kind of things going on in their institution. Their latest newsletter carried a plea...
Football mania swept the government's press briefing last week on the scheme to boost the pay of top researchers. Bob May, the chief scientific adviser, kicked off with a remark about recruiting the...
Thinking of setting up an OxfordUniversity.com website? Think again. The university has a tough new strategy to protect its name and logo and has been buying up Top Level Domain codes, including .edu...
Prisoners in Tuscany who are enrolled on a degree course can seek a transfer to a new "university" section at the Prato prison just outside Florence. There they will have single cells, and lecturers...
Banks have agreed to keep running the federal student loan programme for seven more months after the Canadian government asked for more time to transfer the scheme to a private company. The...
Take a second look at the portrait of higher education minister Tessa Blackstone hanging in the council rooms of Birkbeck College, London, where she was formerly master. Artist Peter Edwards has...
Friday The aircraft door opens and the heat hits you - welcome to Antigua. Time is tight and I worry that I will not get through passport control in time to board the helicopter to my final...
The University of Bradford has awarded honorary degrees to: Richard Gregory, managing director of Yorkshire Television (DLitt); Geoffrey Richmond, chairman of Bradford City FC (DLitt); Pam Liversidge...
Universities are usually delighted to provide speakers at school events (Letters, THES, July 21), and Schools and Colleges Liaison staff try to give students the best possible advice. Schools should...
What is unethical about arms production and trade? According to the Campaign against Arms Trade, Manchester University is doing something wrong by holding shares in BAE Systems ("College pension...