The government has confounded critics who feared the new General Teaching Council would be little more than a government lapdog by confirming the body's independent status. The Department for...
Scottish colleges are relishing the chance to prove their independent mettle. This summer is a watershed for Scottish further education, according to Bob Kay, chairman of the Association of Scottish...
Gillian Raab and Kirsteen Davidson of Napier University's applied statistics group were commissioned by the Scottish Office to investigate the distribution of further education courses, writes Olga...
Lecturers have warned university chiefs and the government that the gloves are about to come off in the fight over pay. The warning from the Association of University Teachers affirms members'...
Lecturers in Northern Irish colleges may strike over their 3 per cent pay offer after chief executives were awarded rises that were nearly five times greater. Lecturers' union Natfhe is to consult...
The once obscure world of British higher education is revealed with the opening of a new archive of detailing the machinations of yesteryear's vice chancellors, writes Alan Thomson. The Modern...
IT is coming of age in higher education. As Kam Patel writes, it is no longer just for email, it is the backbone of an electronic academic community Within just a few years, computers have quietly...
Sunday I am away for the next five weeks on a placement at The THES to find out more about how the media works and how academics can bridge the gap between the press and universities. It has been a...
Teachers must be happy to know that before they became the chief professional concern of Carol Adams, newly appointed chief executive of the General Teaching Council, it was the crown jewels....
Drink-tank The Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals has learned a thing or two about targeted lobbying and is putting it into effect at this year's party conferences. Its fringe meeting at...
Phil Harris, joint director of the centre for corporate and public affairs at Manchester Metropolitan University, has been elected chair of the Academy of Marketing. He succeeds David Carson. Deborah...
The Royal Anthropological Institute has awarded a patron's medal to James Woodburn, senior lecturer in anthropology at the London School of Economics; the Rivers Memorial Medal to Caroline Humphrey,...
Turkmenistan has two main resources - fossil fuels and the tourist potential of the ancient Silk Road. But both have their down side. Until new (and politically controversial) pipelines are built,...
Time magazine has selected the University of Southern California as its "College of the Year" for 1999. Time said the university, often seen as a second choice for students who failed to get into...
About 500 students from the francophone west African state of Guinea staged a peaceful demonstration outside the country's embassy in Tunis claiming their grants have not been paid for five months....