Bar may compel student support
The Bar Council could introduce a compulsory system of funding for student barristers. At its next meeting in February, the council will consider proposals for funding students on the Bar vocational...
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More pay lures lecturers away
Further education colleges are suffering from severe skills shortages because qualified lecturers are being lured into better paid jobs in industry and schools, a national survey has found. The...
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University mergers loom
Students will have fewer universities to choose from in future as growing pressures force institutional collaboration and merger, a senior vice-chancellor predicted this week. Sir David Watson, vice-...
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MPs warned of risk to quality from student funding squeeze
University standards are being hit by a lack of cash, higher education quality chief John Randall admitted this week, writes Alan Thomson. But Mr Randall, chief executive of the Quality Assurance...
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Correction
In The THES , January 12, we said the Quality Assurance Agency had criticised Exeter University for failing to appoint an external examiner to its BA in business studies and marketing delivered by...
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Latest UK news
Tories woo students with tax relief Graduates would not begin repaying their student loans until their salaries reached £20,000 a year under Conservative plans for higher education...
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Tories plan student loan shake-up
Students would start repaying their student loans once they were earning £20,000 a year - twice the current threshold - under Conservative plans for higher education. Undergraduates' loan repayments...
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From today's UK papers
FINANCIAL TIMES The government will issue advice to shareholders in drug companies to prevent animal rights activists obtaining information about their identities. The role of employers in...
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Glittering prizes
David Bates , Edwards professor of medieval history at the University of Glasgow, has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Caen for his contribution to medieval Norman and Anglo-...
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In the news: Gordon McVie
Canvassing cancer research staff at the University of Nottingham, which last year accepted funding from British American Tobacco, has placed Gordon McVie, director general of the Cancer Research...
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On the move
Colin Bell , vice-chancellor of the University of Bradford, has been appointed principal and vice-chancellor of the University of Stirling from September. Roger Brown , principal of the Southampton...
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Don's Diary
Monday Fly to Luxor: goodbye cold, wet Britain. Tuesday Final preparations for the Eastern Desert survey. As always, Ancient World Tours have the logistics well in hand. Our team of volunteers -...
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Net speaks your speak
The language of the internet generation has entered Ulster-Scots. Earlier this month, the University of Ulster and the Ulster-Scots Agency opened the world's first Institute of Ulster-Scots Studies....
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Moooving achievement
Scottish nursing degrees appear to be taking an increasingly specialist approach to potential health crises. A suburban Glasgow paper reports that a former local pupil "has graduated with a BSE in...
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Reflected glory
Make way, philosopher-footballer Eric Cantona, for rugby legend Francois Pienaar. Receiving an honorary degree from the University of Herfordshire last month, Pienaar marked the occasion by quoting...