Bretton Hall under inquiry
Daniel Stone, financial director of Bretton Hall College in Wakefield, has been suspended while an inquiry is carried out for the Higher Education Funding Council, putting pressure on the college's...
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Gambling rise a lottery legacy
The number of households gambling more than 10 per cent of their weekly income has quadrupled since the introduction of the National Lottery, a new study has found. Analysis of official data by Paul...
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Sheffield College set to axe 180 jobs
Lecturers' union leaders have condemned as "educational vandalism" plans to axe 180 jobs at Britain's biggest further education college, writes Tony Tysome. Representatives of Natfhe, the college...
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Voices unite against top-up fees
Controversial proposals for the introduction of top-up fees were condemned this week by economists, students, headteachers, lecturers' unions and further education leaders, while vice-chancellors...
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Plan for 'instant' degrees abandoned
Oxford Brookes University has pulled out of a deal to award "instant" degrees to part-qualified professional accountancy students without requiring them to do any additional work at university....
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Rio de Janeiro
Professors and students at Rio de Janeiro's state universities are using lecture rooms to hold concerts and dance sessions to promote cultural activities pending the conclusion of a strike by...
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Petaling Jaya
A growing number of Malaysian students are appealing against expulsion from their universities on non-academic grounds. Offences include "attitude problems" and "indecent dressing". It has been...
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Abuja
Despite anxieties over its potential as a training ground for fundamentalists, the Nigerian federal government has signed an agreement with the Kano state government to build a $300 million (Pounds...
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New York
Human Rights Watch has awarded one of 28 annual Hellman/Hammett grants to Serbian professor Svetlana Slapsak. Professor Slapsak was active in the peace movement and, when the Bosnian war broke out,...
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Rome
The Vatican has approved the Ex corde Ecclesiae, setting down rules for Roman Catholic universities in America. Professors of theology will now require approval from their local bishops before they...
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Sources for research funding
LEVERHULME TRUST www.leverhulme.org.uk Research Interchange Grants Aim: to support visits with the objective of fostering a research project, or developing a field of research or a highly-specialised...
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Don's Diary
Tuesday Wait for my flight to South Korea, where I meet David, a PhD student. I ponder on how Korea will compare to the other Southeast Asian countries I know. As an anthropologist and historian, I...
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On the move
Nick Reilly, chairman and managing director of Vauxhall Motors and vice-president of General Motors, is to be chair of the Adult Learning Inspectorate. Bob Boucher, vice-chancellor of UMIST, is to be...
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University to run failing school
Newcastle University is to create Britain's first research-led community school. About 900 pupils will enrol at the school, which will be jointly run by the university and the local education...
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Fees report sparks Russell rift
Vice-chancellors of Russell Group universities are divided over a report they commissioned. It is published today and calls for the introduction of top-up fees in all universities. Economists who...