Visa hurdles cost UK millions
British higher education is losing millions of pounds a year thanks to "intimidating" and "mystifying" visa procedures that have put off thousands of fee-paying overseas students. A nationwide survey...
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Colleges shamed after the praising
Ministers stepped up their get-tough stance on failing colleges this week, taking the unprecedented step of "naming and shaming" troubled colleges. College leaders warned that the move could harm...
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Scottish Further Education Funding Council
The chairman of the new Scottish Further Education Funding Council has promised that a review of college management will be "neither a whitewash nor a witch-hunt". A steering group will develop a...
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ILT to revise unwieldy membership plan
The Institute for Learning and Teaching is to scrap its proposed membership scheme, which many academics have criticised as unscholarly. Roger King, vice-chancellor of Lincolnshire and Humberside...
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UfI will take cut of brand revenue
Universities and colleges will have to sacrifice 20 per cent of revenues earned through the University for Industry if they sign up as an accredited UfI Learning Centre, writes Phil Baty. One expert...
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Staff at TVU expect to hear next week what redundancy packages will be offered
Staff at TVU expect to hear next week what redundancy packages will be offered as part of the restructuring following its dismal QAA report.
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Winnipeg
Czech president Vaclav Havel has received an honorary degree from the University of Manitoba during a three-day visit to Canada.
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Australian students rush to pay for university places
Melbourne Enrolments of students opting to pay full fees for university courses in Australia have increased sharply this year. The conservative administration has slashed spending on universities and...
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Dakar
Students from the Central African Republic have peacefully occupied their country's embassy in Dakar, capital of Senegal, and ten have begun hunger strikes. They are protesting because their...
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Next week
News Is there a new pecking order for universities? Lecturers hold crunch meeting for the ILT Books Richard Overy takes an intimate look at the history of killing. Books focus: economics Features...
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Abi Duncan O'Meara
Abi Duncan O'Meara, featured last week on page 3 of The THES, "Younger students opt to go part-time", came to London after she had matriculated, aged 18, not 16 as stated.
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DTI urged to promote Britisheducation
The Department of Trade and Industry is thinking of taking a new role in promoting higher education. Michael Wills (below), a junior minister in the DTI, promised to look into the issue at a...
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Don's Diary
Thursday Today sees the launch of TV Living, a book based on a study funded by the British Film Institute that takes a long, hard look at the UK television audience. The BFI has booked a lunchtime...
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Graduates slam elite teaching as 'outdated'
Paris The most recent graduates of the Ecole Nationale d'Administration have written an open letter to French prime minister Lionel Jospin, criticising the prestigious college for its outdated...
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Uproar in Italy over cut-down philosophy
Rome Italy's philosophers are up in arms over plans to close faculties of lettere e filosofia and include scaled-down teaching of philosophy, with other subjects, on shorter humanities courses. Many...