PFI database registers 200-project increase
The number of universities registering formal interest in the Private Finance Initiative has grown by 19 per cent in the past three months. A total of 75 institutions have put forward upwards of 200...
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Shephard stands by appointment procedures
Gillian Shephard, the secretary of state for education and employment, has defended the practice of appointing heads of institutions to the funding councils and of retaining Training and Enterprise...
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Eight selected for quality agency board
Eight directors have been named for the new single quality agency for higher education: Ian Graham-Bryce, principal, University of Dundee; Haydn Ellis, pro-vice chancellor, University of Wales,...
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Labour will end maintenance grants - Blunkett
Labour will abolish maintenance grants for students and reform the student loans scheme, shadow education and employment secretary David Blunkett told BBC Radio 4's Analysis programme set to be...
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BSE eclipses other dementia research
Government money allocated for BSE research would be "infinitely more useful" if it were ploughed into investigating other more common dementia conditions such as Alzheimer's, according to Bob...
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Project to tempt talented foreigners gets Pounds 11m
All four UK higher education funding bodies have agreed to continue funding the Overseas Research Students Awards Scheme designed to attract the best research students from abroad. They will...
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Excluded RAE lecturer sues Westminster
A LINGUIST has won the right to take Westminster University to an industrial tribunal over claims that it unlawfully discriminated against him by withholding his work from the research assessment...
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Closer higher education and TEC links needed
Higher education institutions should be working in closer partnership with their local Training and Enterprise Councils, a report from the Higher Education Funding Council and Department for...
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Ex-editor to take over at Kingston
FORMER THES editor Peter Scott has been appointed as the next vice chancellor of Kingston University. Professor Scott's appointment was confirmed by governors on Monday afternoon. He will succeed...
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Is ET on Europa?
Julia Hinde reports from the annual American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Seattle Scientists looking for extra-terrestrial life are turning their attentions to Jupiter's moon...
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Sector fears Shephard's course intrusion
The new teacher training national curriculum is not only an inappropriate electioneering ploy but an intrusion into the autonomy of higher education, vice chancellors, principals and higher education...
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Students see red over green masters
FOUR GRADUATES are suing the Victoria University of Wellington over a masters course they believe was substandard. The claim, filed in the High Court last November, relates to an MA (applied)...
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Belfast call to go alone
NORTHERN Ireland needs its own strategic development plan for higher education backed up by separate funding, Sir Ron Dearing was told this week. Sir Ron was chairing a one-day conference in Belfast...
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Libraries prepare for digital century
Public libraries should prepare to help people get to grips with the digital revolution, the Government declared this week. In its review of public library policy for England, the Department of...
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Strong words expected on full-time fees
A GRADUATE tax system and some version of Australia's Higher Education Contribution Scheme are options that the Dearing committee is exploring to raise higher education funding, according to a...