Minister spells out reforms
Education minister Tessa Blackstone blamed the press and the annual "scaremongering" about clearing for misunderstandings around the Government's response to Dearing's proposals in her speech to the...
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Hodge asks for cash answers
THE GOVERNMENT came under more pressure this week to explain what it is going to do about the Pounds 900 million short-term funding crisis faced by universities. Margaret Hodge, who is chairing the...
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Standing order
Never let quality chiefs be accused of favouritism towards the people for whom they are policing standards. When postgraduates wrote to the new Quality Assurance Agency to suggest that one of the...
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Metal courses lose their lustre
Metallurgy's shine is tarnishing FALLING enrolments in the low-profile subject of metallurgy are causing concern for some British companies. According to the Universities and Colleges Admissions...
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Money worries top list of Dearing concerns
The consultation period for Sir Ron Dearing's report ends on October 6. Alan Thomson examines some of the responses so far Further Education Funding Council COLLEGESmay have to restrict the number of...
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Bank raid
The latest development in the new Quality Assurance Agency's search for a headquarters may say something about its policy leanings. Determined not to venture far from his Gloucestershire home, QAA...
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Economising on time
Amid the stormy discussions taking place at the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals' annual conference this week, one voice was conspicuously absent. After being one of the noisiest...
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Bending in public
Desperation in the quest to counter the crisis in teacher recruitment appears to have reached new depths. The Commons education and employment select committee, already on its second inquiry into...
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Rebooted out
A student who will not be invited on to any bodies concerned with raising standards is at the University of Queensland, which has taken the big stick to one for persistent "computer misconduct". The...
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Paisley pattern
What do they know that we don't? Politics pundits David McCrone of Edinburgh University and Bill Miller of Glasgow University, who were much in demand by the media during Scotland's devolution...
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That's enough eds
The conviction that the Government has fortune as well as the opinion polls on its side can only be reinforced by the sight of the remaining members of the loyalist Conservative press tearing each...
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Scots look into their crystal balls
THE DEBATE on the place of higher education under a Scottish parliament begins next week at a conference organised by the Association of University Teachers Scotland and the Scottish Trades Union...
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Reform reject keeps rectors in their chairs
THE SCOTTISH Office has pre-empted consultation on the Garrick report, the Scottish arm of the Dearing inquiry, by rejecting its proposal to reduce the rights of university rectors. The Garrick...
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Cash boost for Highlands and Islands
SCOTTISH education minister Brian Wilson has pledged Pounds 3.6 million for the University of the Highlands and Islands project, but has hinted that there will now be closer Government scrutiny of...
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Hornucopia: Abbots Bromley Horn Dance
(Photograph) - Textile students at the University of Derby designed the costumes for the ancient pagan Abbots Bromley Horn Dance performed last week by 12 villagers. The dance, featured in...