Ulster peace campus proposal revived
The Government has revived hopes of a new "peaceline" campus for the University of Ulster. The Springvale dream in Belfast faded last year when the university put it on ice. But last week education...
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Sport academy site to be named soon
The long-awaited decision on the location of the National Academy of Sport can be expected in August or September, sports minister Tony Banks said last week. Mr Banks said he had decided to proceed...
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Tecs register Pounds 33m surplus, but 16 post a loss
Sixteen Training and Enterprise councils made a loss in the financial year 1995/96, including the Merseyside TEC which showed a deficit of Pounds 2,868 for the year, lifelong learning minister Kim...
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Scots query help for troubled college
The Association of Scottish Colleges is questioning Pounds 166,000 extra government funding for Clydebank College, which has been facing redundancies because of a substantial deficit. Tom Kelly,...
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Prize energises biochemist's listless study
Cambridge University biochemist Guy Brown is the first winner of a new Pounds 25,000 popular science writing award from the Wellcome Trust. The award will allow him to complete his book Living Energy...
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Report pinpoints crisis in governance
UNIVERSITY governance is in crisis and is likely to worsen after the Dearing report, a conference for senior higher education staff heard this week. A paper by Peter Scott, director of the centre for...
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Staff slam Lancs regime
Lancaster University was in the midst of another crisis this week as around 100 academics said in a straw poll that they had lost confidence in senior management and that some should consider their...
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Leyland bows out after calls for resignation
David Leyland, Southampton Institute's controversial director, has agreed to take early retirement at the end of August. The news was announced to staff by governors at a meeting last Friday. It...
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Bid to make student work placement universal
Newly employed graduates with no work experience cost British business up to Pounds 2 billion a year, according to research which has been passed to Sir Ron Dearing in a bid to make work placements a...
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'Ease medic squeeze'
The training of the nation's doctors and dentists could be under threat unless action is taken now to ease pressures on clinical academics, says a report published this week. Commissioned by the...
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Leeds staff win redundancy pay
Research staff on fixed contracts at Leeds University will be entitled to redundancy money when their contracts cease, in a "breakthrough" which the Association of University Teachers hopes will...
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Natfhe makes lone strike threat
Further education colleges could face another summer strike wave following the breakdown this week of pay talks between lecturers' union Natfhe and the Association of Colleges. Natfhe said it was...
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Postgrad bottleneck warning
students who want to progress to postgraduate level could encounter significant financial barriers if the Dearing committee's funding proposals go ahead, a member of the inquiry team has warned,...
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Scots' flexible credit to go nationwide
Sir Ron Dearing's committee is to recommend that a flexible qualifications system based on the Scottish higher education model be introduced nationwide, writes Tony Tysome. The system would allow...
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Leaky ship sails off
Media speculation over the contents of the Dearing report appears to have reduced members of Sir Ron's committee to a state of paranoia. Tales of what Sir Ron will recommend have been so accurate (...