NAO call for ombudsman
Swansea scandal prompts action. The National Audit Office has called for the establishment of an ombudsman for higher education after reviewing events which led to "a breakdown in both governance and...
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Dean of art and design at University College Newport is suspended
* The dean of art and design at University College Newport was suspended indefinitely by the governing body this week. Faculty staff sent the college a letter of no confidence in Peter Sayers last...
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Quanca leap for Tate
Schools curriculum advisor Nick Tate is to be chief executive of the new qualifications authority, it was confirmed this week. The Qualifications and National Curriculum Authority will replace the...
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Business chief predicts local, vocational future
Universities would become local vocational training institutions under a higher education model which is expected to hold great sway with Sir Ron Dearing. Chris Humphries, representing the 81...
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Bone of contention
(Photograph) - Bone of contention: half a pint of milk a day keeps the doctor away, or so believe researchers at Sheffield University's centre for human nutrition. They have completed an 18-month...
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Scientists tackle the brain strain
SCIENTISTS from across Europe have announced a collaborative initiative to promote brain research, with mental health problems expected to escalate as we enter the next century. The European Dana...
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AUT sends strike signal
THE ASSOCIATION of University Teachers has condemned the Labour party's threatened public sector pay freeze and warned that a fledgling Blair government could face industrial action unless the...
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Glaxo-Wellcome shifts overseas
A LEADING British pharmaceutical company now undertakes more than five times as much university collaborative research overseas as it did eight years ago. Poor infrastructure in British institutions...
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Cambridge campus
Cambridge University unveiled its masterplan for a West Cambridge campus this week. Vice chancellor Alec Broers said that development on the 150-acre site would "allow the university the space and...
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Temp shake-up
Educating Lecturing Services, which offers self-employed lecturers for short courses or part-time work, is being used for the first time in Scotland at two further education colleges, Aberdeen and...
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Postgraduate rise
The numbers of students gaining postgraduate qualifications rose 17 per cent last year compared with 1994/95, according to the Higher Education Statistics Agency. 105,500 students gained postgraduate...
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Nest case
A Sunderland University environmental research lecturer has been found guilty of deliberately disturbing protected rare birds in their nests. Andrew Dixon, 31, was given an 18-month conditional...
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Subjects object to funding banding
Geographers, psychologists and archaeologists are protesting over plans to place their disciplines in the lowest funding band. Professional groups representing the three subjects were due to meet...
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Economists call for top tax hike
LABOUR's decision to freeze the top income tax rate at 40 per cent for its first term in power, should it win the general election, would sharply reduce its chance of cutting unemployment and...
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Digital scholars defend IT record
THES reporters examine the fall-out from the research assessment exercise now that funding weightings are known ACADEMICS engaged in digital scholarship have called for greater recognition of their...