Taxing questions for NUS leaders
I was disappointed to see the democratically elected president of the National Union of Students refusing to promote democratically decided policy on the funding of students in further and higher...
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Taxing questions for NUS leaders
Jim Murphy welcomes the publication of the Institute for Public Policy Research Commission on Social Justice on behalf of the National Union of Students. His organisation has made some impressive...
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Squabbles break out on training
Training and Enterprise Council chiefs have challenged further education college leaders to provide them with hard evidence of TECs running courses in direct competition with further education...
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Yellow cards in action
University departments that fail any aspect of new quality assessment gradings will face funding council sanctions unless they can show an improvement within a year. This week the Higher Education...
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Quality chief condemns drain on resources
A Higher Education Quality Council director has condemned the sector's so-called quality industry as a drain on vital resources which "is itself threatening quality." John Bull, vice chancellor of...
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Miller's house
(Photograph) - Miller's house: Queen's Building, at the University of East Anglia, has just won a Royal Institute of British Architects regional award. The building combines schools of occupational...
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Head found
The long-awaited appointment of a chief executive to head the new Teacher Training Agency was announced by the Department for Education this week. The post has been filled by Anthea Millet, director...
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Extra funding
Universities have been invited to bid for extra funds for special library collections and the Computers in Teaching Initiative. The four national funding bodies plan to add two new CTI centres to the...
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Boucher at UMIST
The new principal and vice-chancellor of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology will be Bob Boucher, now pro vice chancellor of the University of Sheffield. He is a...
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In the Spink
Another engineer on the up is Robert Spink, newly appointed parliamentary private secretary to Ann Widdecombe, secretary of state for employment. Now MP for Castle Point in Dorset, he has a first in...
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Top microbes
Britain's collection of over 42,000 microbe cultures is a "world-class national collection in embryo" which should be more centrally administrated and better exploited commercially, says a report...
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Hot metal
Rolls Royce is investing more than Pounds 1 million in a new technology centre at the University of Cambridge. The facility will be based at the department of materials science and metallurgy and...
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Islamic group accuses SOAS of `cowardice'
Supporters of an Islamic group barred from promoting its views in the School of Oriental and African Studies responded by accusing the school of "hypocrisy" and "cowardice" this week. "SOAS has...
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Teleworking thrives in Surrey study
Two Surrey-based researchers this week predicted that the rise of teleworking in the county will lead to less traffic congestion, better job prospects for women and the disabled and a revival of the...
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Lang to boost Scots training links
Ian Lang, Secretary of State for Scotland, plans to boost training links between further education colleges and local companies as part of Scotland's strategy following the White Paper on business...