Funding carrot to aid teaching
SOME departments and institutions are to be encouraged to opt out of the research assessment exercise in a bid to halt the "devaluation" of teaching in higher education. The report says too many...
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Major role for Quality Assurance Agency
DEARING has stopped short of recommending a national curriculum for higher education programmes - but only just. A compulsory code of practice and "threshold" minimum standards for degree programmes...
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CVCP relief on standards
THE broad thrust of the "qualifications and standards" recommendations have been welcomed. Diana Warwick, chief executive of the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals, was relieved that Sir...
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A new binary divide?
RESPONSES to Dearing's recommendations on teaching focused on plans to move some institutions' missions from research. They were interpreted as the start of a new binary divide and the emergence of...
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Cash dose could aid lab health
THE CREATION of an arts and humanities research council, a Pounds 500-million loan scheme for buying laboratory equipment and an extra Pounds 110 million for research councils are among Dearing's...
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Fears of lost opportunities for emerging talent
Industry support for setting up a Pounds 500-million loan scheme for supporting top university laboratories is less than enthusiastic. Paul Leonard of the Chemical Industries Association says its...
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AUT calls for pay national review body
THE ASSOCIATION of University Teachers is disappointed by Dearing's failure to recommend a pay review body, claiming it reveals a contradiction in his plans for academic and related staff. AUT...
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Shift in professional identity
Dearing says that staffing issues are central to higher education's success over the next 20 years. "An effective, fairly remunerated, professional and well-motivated workforce lies at the heart of...
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Reform plan for province
NORTHERN Ireland's anomalous position within the United Kingdom of having only an advisory higher education body, and a dramatic undersupply of university places, has been boldy tackled by Dearing's...
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Three-year degree call
DEARING'S Scottish committee, chaired by industrialist Sir Ron Garrick, stresses the distinctiveness of Scottish higher education while firmly retaining it within the United Kingdom system. It has...
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Welcome for proposals
JOHN Andrews, chief executive of the Welsh Further and Higher Education Funding Councils, welcomed the endorsement of two sectoral funding councils sharing a chief executive and staff and Dearing's...
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Mixed reaction to Scottish recommendations
SCOTTISH education minister Brian Wilson has pledged careful consideration of how tuition fees will apply to the four-year Scottish honours degree, and said he strongly endorsed Sir Ron Garrick's...
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Praise for Welsh system
THE DISTINCTIVE pattern of relationships built between the further and higher education sectors in Wales has been strongly endorsed in a largely descriptive section of the Dearing report. It firmly...
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NI gives nod
HIGHER educationists in Northern Ireland havewelcomed proposals for the province. Sir Trevor Smith, Ulster University vice chancellor, praised the recommendation to end the cap on student numbers....
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Governors get code
BETTER money management and a governors' code of practice will be needed to keep institutions running smoothly, says the report. The committee recognises that higher education has been through a...