Universities have accused schools' and teacher training inspectorate Ofsted of being unaccountable, inconsistent and possibly irrelevant to the quality of newly qualified teachers. Their attack was...
The government needs to think more about its green paper pledge to ensure that all college lecturers become fully qualified teachers, education minister Tessa Blackstone said this week, writes Phil...
Strikes and protests will blight this year's university exams and admissions rounds if employers do not agree within weeks to pay higher salaries, lecturers have warned. Agreeing a 10 per cent pay...
Blackwell Science has become the first publisher to sign a deal to provide university libraries with cheaper access to electronic journals. The National Electronic Site Licence Initiative (Nesli) has...
Liberal Democrat education spokesman Don Foster may run for party leader in the wake of Paddy Ashdown's decision to stand down. Mr Foster, MP for Bath, said last week: "I am neither ruling it in nor...
A nationwide survey of academics has revealed that women conduct more interdisciplinary research than men. The findings come from independent consultancy Evaluation Associates, and form part of the...
The success of specialist subject centres hinges on their getting proper recognition and finance. Alison Utley reports The drive to raise the status of university teaching, long perceived to be the...
Confidential details of the decision-making process behind Cambridge University's last controversial round of staff promotions have emerged. Minutes and reports from the 1998 promotions round, which...
The lecturer at the centre of allegations of nepotism at Anglia Polytechnic University will not be returning from sick leave, his trade union has told staff. Jonathan Jenkins, a lecturer at the...
Sunday Work on the emails that accumulated over the last week while my colleagues and I were preparing the school's academic plan. Lunchtime: start reading a doctoral thesis I am externally examining...
A man with homely hobbies - he lists "my family (including sundry cats)" and cooking as his interests in Who's Who, along with golf and rugby union - Tony Higgins, chief executive of the Universities...
Brice Dickson, a barrister and professor of law at the University of Ulster for the past eight years, has been appointed the first human rights commissioner for Northern Ireland. He will head a team...
Adrian Bird, Buchanan professor of genetics at the University of Edinburgh, has been awarded the 1999 Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine - Pounds 0,000 towards further research and a personal award of...
German foreign minister Joschka Fischer (Green) has suggested a Frankfurt School of Economics should be set up in the European financial capital. He told the Frankfurter Rundschau newspaper that such...
The production methods and marketing policies of Tuscany's most celebrated Chianti producer, Marquis Vittorio Frescobaldi, are attracting the attention of Harvard economists, who have decided to...