The end of turning a blind eye to need
America's Ivy League universities are fee-driven, with significant funding supplements from private donors. These provide the source for the aid packages that enable these private universities to...
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Non-participation extends far further than Oxbridge
All top universities in the United Kingdom must overhaul their admissions systems to give pupils from poor backgrounds a fair chance, a report from the Sutton Trust will say next week. Drawing on...
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Admission impossible?
As the furore over the government's attack on Oxford elitism rumbles on, THES reporters gauge reactions and ask what universities can do to improve access The furore surrounding Laura Spence is a...
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Advice for nice Natfhe
It seems David Melville, chief executive of the Further Education Funding Council, has taken up with enthusiasm the idea of closer cooperation in the sector. Paul Mackney, general secretary of...
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No O level, lots of nous
Lifelong learning minister Malcolm Wicks was in confessional mood at Natfhe's annual conference last week, admitting that he had reached his elevated government post in spite of failing an O level in...
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The elitists exposed
Recent performance indicators published by the Higher Education Funding Council for England show Oxford and Cambridge clearly lagging behind in the proportion of young full-time first-degree entrants...
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Bristol's Dimmock MA
Charlie Dimmock has a lot to answer for. The University of Bristol has seized on the television-fuelled public demand for everything greenfingered by offering a new master of arts in garden history....
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On the move
Michael Grade, chief executive of First Leisure Corporation and former chief executive of Channel Four, is to hold the first chair of television production at the National Film and Television School...
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Glittering prizes
Golfers Seve Ballesteros and Colin Montgomerie will receive honorary degrees of doctor of laws from the University of St Andrews in July. Warwick University is to award honorary degrees to: Baroness...
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In the news
Change is afoot in the post-16 inspection regime - always a worrying time for those involved. But Stephen Grix, 43, the man responsible, recently appointed head of Ofsted's post-compulsory education...
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Don's Diary
Sunday Enjoy catching up on the week's newspapers - they are full of scandal on the selling of exam scripts in the law faculty at Charles. As a colleague points out, on an average salary of Pounds...
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Paris
Philippe Meirieu has resigned as head of France's National Institute of Pedagogical Research. Mr Meirieu was appointed by former minister for education and research Claude All gre to renovate the...
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Turin
The rector of Turin University, the dean of its medical school and a hospital doctor have been accused of a breach of professional secrecy and of violation of privacy after a student with HIV and...
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Lome
The vice-chancellor of the Universite de Lome has been ordered to expel 50 Angolan students said by the Angolan government to be diamond dealers acting for Jonas Savimbi's Unita opposition group....
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A poor way forward for SA
South Africa's v-cs have good cause to reject a proposed restructuring of higher education, writes David Woods South Africa's vice-chancellors have unanimously rejected proposals from the Council on...