QAA warns about quality overseas
Quality inspectors have warned against the rapid expansion of lucrative franchise arrangements in India by Thames Valley University and have expressed concerns about "serious weaknesses" in the...
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Training body says give bosses lead on TECs
Employers should have more say in planning further and higher education by taking the lead in the strategic development of training and enterprise councils, national training organisations have told...
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Principal attacked for rape case comments
Struther Arnott, principal of St Andrews University, has been condemned for comments that seem to question a former student's account of her rape during an exchange trip to Odessa in Ukraine. Erin...
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UfI name is 'outdated and in need of change'
The University for Industry name is "misleading" and too reminscent of "old-style socialism", says the Professional Association of Teachers' further and higher education committee. The committee,...
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OU faces shame as Ofsted finds PGCE unacceptable
The Teacher Training Agency began the process of withdrawing accreditation from the Open University's teacher training programmes this week following publication of a damaging Ofsted report. The...
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Selected responses from The THES Survey
Q Are you happy with the current inspection regime? A "If I tell you we've had approximately 15 inspections since I came here three years ago, that will answer your question. No other group is...
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Queen's staff vent fury at planned job cuts
More than 150 academics have spoken out in opposition to radical restructuring at Queen's University, Belfast, initiated by the new vice-chancellor, George Bain. Fifty-three academics from Queen's...
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HE urged to take more poor students
All universities must find new ways to attract young people from disadvantaged backgrounds into higher education, a report on a national survey has concluded. Disadvantage is "one of the last...
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US threat to Euro defence firms
Europe's defence industries are heading for their second big post-cold war shakeout in the face of stiffening competition from firms in the United States, according to a report for Brussels by a...
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China in satellite deal with Surrey
The University of Surrey has established a company with Tsinghua University in Beijing to build small satellites for the Chinese market. The Chinese require about 100 small satellites over the next...
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Group's call for a 'third way' towards PhDs based on the European experience
A third way of getting a PhD should be introduced, according to the United Kingdom Council for Graduate Education. At present, British students submit a dissertation for a traditional PhD while...
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Industry told to get more adventurous
A study of venture capital in the United States over three decades estimates it now accounts for 20 per cent of total innovative effort and the impact of every venture dollar on patenting is five...
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DTI puts farming research to test
Biologists fear that agricultural research is under further threat. The Department of Trade and Industry has asked the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council to examine whether its...
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Power of the keys
(Photograph) - Tom Wickens, who is autistic, performed part of a Beethoven work and one of his own compositions at a conference at the University of Hertfordshire on educating children with autism...
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Why I ... think couples should have children
The current trend is to choose not to have children. All over the West birth rates are falling. And I am asking why. I have two different worries about this fall in population. My first anxiety is...