Ulster U appoints professor of women's studies
Ulster University senior lecturer Monica McWilliams, founder of the Women's Coalition, which had a prominent role in the Northern Ireland peace talks, has been appointed professor of women's studies...
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FEDA cuts costs ahead of Commons critique
Plans to make the Further Education Development Agency more cost-effective have been announced just weeks before the House of Commons education select committee is expected to denounce the agency as...
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AoC claims government funds will fall short
In a submission to the Commons education and employment select committee, which is looking at widening participation, the Association of Colleges has said "substantially greater investment" must be...
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University denies 'dumbing down' policy
Heriot-Watt University has rejected allegations that it has allowed students to pass courses with marks as low as 13 per cent to boost completion rates. According to principal John Archer, "Any...
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Student settles out of court over study aid
An Aberdeen University student who was suing his estranged mother for a contribution towards his living costs has reached a confidential out-of-court settlement. Patrick Macdonald, a third-year law...
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EPSRC to revise training
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council is planning to revolutionise its masters-level training programme with the introduction of new "training packages". The EPSRC supports about 1,...
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CBI reviews funding split
A new model for distributing university research funding to a narrower band of universities has been proposed by the Confederation of British Industry, writes Julia Hinde. The CBI has written to the...
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Unions in sackings row
Lecturers' union Natfhe has come under fire from staff at the University College of St Mark and St John, Plymouth, over its handling of a row over whistleblowing. One Natfhe member has quit the union...
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Portable credits a step closer
STUDENTS could find it easier to transfer between universities under a national qualifications grid that a government-funded steering group has hammered out. The Committee of Vice-chancellors and...
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Birthday bash
(Photograph) - Comedian Ben Elton flew off to the Cannes Film Festival after joining his father, Lewis Elton, at celebrations to mark the fifth birthday of the Staff and Educational Development...
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Queen's axe hangs over 100 lecturers
Academics at Queen's University Belfast are outraged by plans to lose more than 100 lecturers in a Pounds 25 million restructuring plan. Opposition to the plan to axe teaching in Italian, Semitic...
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Quality U-turn wrongfoots AUT
The decision by the Quality Assurance Agency to drop its original proposals that external examiners should report to it has pacified its most vociferous critics but aroused deep concern in some other...
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Pay offer put to the vote
BALLOT papers will go out to all higher education members of lecturers' union Natfhe asking for their response to this year's pay offer. A straw poll of branches taken in time for Natfhe's national...
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Principal's case goes to tribunal
Glasgow Caledonian University has been "in chaos" as a result of its former principal's restructuring plans, which were later jettisoned, an industrial tribunal heard. Brian Murphy, clerk to the...
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Figures reveal teacher shortage
Acute shortages of trained teachers have led to a 50 per cent increase in vacancies for primary teachers in inner London, figures released by the government last week reveal. The figures show that...