College launches financial inquiry
AN INTERNAL inquiry into the financial crisis at Matthew Boulton College of Further and Higher Education in Birmingham is under way. It is looking at previous management and governance. In an...
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Statute shake-up on cards
OLD universities are set for a wholesale change in statutes due to recommendations on governance in the Dearing report. Most pre-1992 institutions have governing bodies larger than the 25 members...
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HEFCE clears Anglia
THE Higher Education Funding Council for England has ruled that managers at Anglia Polytechnic University did not try to cover-up allegations of nepotism, bullying and mismanagement at the business...
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Union accuses Middlesex of creating 'climate of fear'
NATFHE has attacked the executive at Middlesex University for creating a "climate of fear and despair" and destroying free speech at the university, writes Phil Baty. A newsletter, from the Middlesex...
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Liquor licence
Peers must have been sober as judges on Tuesday when they ended their repeated opposition to the government on Scottish tuition fees, if we are to believe home office minister Lord Williams of Mostyn...
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Short goodbye
Some see him as the Trojan Horse sent to infiltrate the enemy before the troops storm in. Or perhaps he is more a Helen, whose defection to the enemy drew her jealous clan in hot pursuit. Either way...
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Dewar's cut
Censorship or charity? Scotland's hacks were treated to a live broadcast of Gordon Brown's comprehensive spending review speech at the Scottish Office in Edinburgh. But when the chancellor finished,...
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Bad deal
The Association of Colleges fought hard to ensure that the long-term unemployed would not be denied places on higher education access courses under the New Deal. Naturally it was horrified to...
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Big whack
What David Blunkett taketh away - in the form of Pounds 1,000 tuition fees - Ronald McDonald giveth. The firm is offering up to 50 grants of Pounds 1,000 each to students who have worked for them for...
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Honorary degrees
Lancaster University DLitt: James Deardon, curator of the Ruskin Collection at Bembridge and Brantwood until 1996. LLD: Elizabeth Robins, justice of the peace and chairman of the Education Trust Ltd...
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Chairs
University of Wolverhampton Ilana Crome, of the university's school of health sciences department of addiction studies, has been appointed professor of addiction psychiatry. John Moores University...
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Appointments
Henley College George Laverty, deputy principal of Newbury College, has been appointed principal. University of Nottingham Keith Jones, academic secretary at the University of Liverpool, will succeed...
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Randall honour
The efforts of John Randall, chief executive of the Quality Assurance Agency, have finally won recognition in the sector - but not in the field of quality assurance. He is to receive an honorary...
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Spokes man
Last week's visit by Tory education spokesman David Willetts to The THES involved no demands on our car parking space. He arrived on his bike, in training for riding 199 miles, starting today, from...
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Well drilled
Alumnus to be proud of No 181 is outback driller Stephen Hindley, praised in the public prints this week for using a rusty brace and bit to save an Australian Rules football player from death,...