Sir Ron backs ace regional research
The lion's share of cash for research should be ploughed into regional centres of excellence, Sir Ron Dearing's inquiry is to recommend. Most money currently distributed to universities according to...
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Part-time student wins benefit court case
The Court of Appeal rejected an appeal by the Department for Social Security this week that would have left some part-time students with no entitlement to student grants, loans or income support. It...
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Natfhe strike collapses after sacking threat
Lecturers at Southwark College, London, have returned to work after a 13-week strike. Lecturers' union Natfhe called off further education's longest dispute after members were threatened with...
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Colleges accept 13,000 GNVQ entrants
More than 13,000 students with General National Vocational Qualifications were accepted for higher education courses in 1996, according to figures from the Universities and Colleges Admissions...
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Estate cash to favour the cost-effective
Economically minded institutions will benefit most under a new programme allowing them to bid for cash to improve their estates, funding chiefs propose. The Higher Education Funding Council for...
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Ulster peace campus proposal revived
The Government has revived hopes of a new "peaceline" campus for the University of Ulster. The Springvale dream in Belfast faded last year when the university put it on ice. But last week education...
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Sport academy site to be named soon
The long-awaited decision on the location of the National Academy of Sport can be expected in August or September, sports minister Tony Banks said last week. Mr Banks said he had decided to proceed...
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Tecs register Pounds 33m surplus, but 16 post a loss
Sixteen Training and Enterprise councils made a loss in the financial year 1995/96, including the Merseyside TEC which showed a deficit of Pounds 2,868 for the year, lifelong learning minister Kim...
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Scots query help for troubled college
The Association of Scottish Colleges is questioning Pounds 166,000 extra government funding for Clydebank College, which has been facing redundancies because of a substantial deficit. Tom Kelly,...
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Prize energises biochemist's listless study
Cambridge University biochemist Guy Brown is the first winner of a new Pounds 25,000 popular science writing award from the Wellcome Trust. The award will allow him to complete his book Living Energy...
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Report pinpoints crisis in governance
UNIVERSITY governance is in crisis and is likely to worsen after the Dearing report, a conference for senior higher education staff heard this week. A paper by Peter Scott, director of the centre for...
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Staff slam Lancs regime
Lancaster University was in the midst of another crisis this week as around 100 academics said in a straw poll that they had lost confidence in senior management and that some should consider their...
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Leyland bows out after calls for resignation
David Leyland, Southampton Institute's controversial director, has agreed to take early retirement at the end of August. The news was announced to staff by governors at a meeting last Friday. It...
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Bid to make student work placement universal
Newly employed graduates with no work experience cost British business up to Pounds 2 billion a year, according to research which has been passed to Sir Ron Dearing in a bid to make work placements a...
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'Ease medic squeeze'
The training of the nation's doctors and dentists could be under threat unless action is taken now to ease pressures on clinical academics, says a report published this week. Commissioned by the...