Manchester University has been ordered by an industrial tribunal to pay Pounds 44,880 damages for loss of earnings and injury to personal feelings to law lecturer Asif Qureshi. In July the university...
THE UNIVERSITY of Wales Cardiff has withdrawn two film production postgraduate diploma courses after paying out Pounds 24,000 in compensation to dissatisfied students. The university admitted its...
Will education control be local, regional or national? THES reporters monitor moving battlelines An increase in student grants fraud is possible if local authorities' awards role is replaced by a...
Will education control be local, regional or national? THES reporters monitor moving battlelines The government's proposed new regional development agencies appear to have lost the fight to control...
Will education control be local, regional or national? THES reporters monitor moving battlelines SEVEN regional consultants have started work under a new structure introduced by the Higher Education...
Will education control be local, regional or national? THES reporters monitor moving battlelines Ulster University has hailed a Pounds 1.5 million award from the Millennium Commission as the first...
Will education control be local, regional or national? THES reporters monitor moving battlelines EXCELLENCE in teaching is to be rewarded through a new strategy announced by the Higher Education...
Naturally, a goodly proportion of the 28 peers who spent four hours discussing the future of Oxbridge college fees last week had been to Oxford or Cambridge. But three had been to the same school....
Should Oxford college fees go, the university may have to persuade the bigger players to share a few more pennies with the poorer ones. But one or two will be left out of the game altogether....
Institutions within Oxford are showing variable form in the struggle to gain power and influence among new Labour's top dogs. St John's is still havering about the fellowship that colleges usually...
Recent recollections of the British Library's former Reading Room suggest readers' eyes frequently strayed from their books. But some perhaps had more to see than others - or thought they did. One...
Aristocratic body-part artist Anthony-Noel Kelly will not be looking forward to Christmas. On December 11 he and colleague Neil Lindsay are due in court to answer to the charge that he nicked a few...
Mary Rice will not have enjoyed the industrial tribunal against the Medical Research Council (page 2), which found that the MRC was justified in dismissing her for sceptical remarks about its...
A Glasgow University round-table discussion "Adult learners: always the afterthought?" lived up to its name when Brian Wilson, Scottish education minister, cancelled due to a starring role on...
Alumnus to be proud of no 148 has provoked a rare outburst of new Labour dissent. An Early Day Motion asking whether Martin Taylor's treatment of his staff at Barclays Bank makes him the ideal person...