Principal statement
A statement is expected today over the future of a college principal found to have discrepancies in his employment records. Duane Arnold has been on leave of absence from St Chad's College, an...
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Longer but fewer days for healthy working
Spending longer hours at work for fewer days in the week is better for your health than eight-hour shift work spread over five days, according to a study on the implications for shiftworkers of a...
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Students demand a say
STUDENTS lobbied MPs and funding chiefs this week to demand a greater say in further education policy and more cash for colleges. Theirs were among the loudest voices expressing grievances to a...
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Morale slips as professors feel strain
HARD-PRESSED professors are becoming demoralised as workloads increase and pay declines, according to a new survey. The National Conference of University Professors found that 91 per cent of the 150...
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Teaching formula to await Sir Ron
THE INTRODUCTION of a new funding system for teaching in English higher education has been set back a year. Funding council chiefs say most institutions would prefer to delay wide-ranging changes...
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Leeds savings plan set to axe 100 jobs
UNIVERSITIES facing severe budget cuts have been forced to shuffle academic administration in a bid to save cash, writes Harriet Swain. Leeds University, which expects to lose more than 100 staff...
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Top up fees under attack
RAYMOND Robertson, Scottish Office minister for education, has condemned top-up fees as deplorable, but has acknowledged that universities are entitled to introduce them. In a House of Commons debate...
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Students are paying more than Pounds 170 million
Students are paying more than Pounds 170 million in hidden course costs, according to a survey by the National Union of Students. The survey shows that the average undergraduate pays out more than...
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Principal accused of working in pub
GOVERNORS at a further education college are investigating allegations that the principal has spent his sick leave helping out in a pub. Neil Preston, who earns Pounds 90,000 a year, took sick leave...
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Brand claims he was censored
The Edinburgh University lecturer suspended following his comments on paedophilia has accused the university of censorship by cutting him off from departmental Internet and email. Psychology lecturer...
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Government made tax error
The Government has admitted there were more than 1,600 faults in a computer system which has led to many new graduates being overtaxed. The problems were first discovered by Tommy Docherty, a...
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Days of innocence
Even people who live alongside a university may, it seems, sometimes have little idea of what goes on there. Managers at one new university were baffled recently by a call from a local resident...
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Not so forthright
Michael Forsyth, Secretary of State for Scotland, is building up a reputation for his caring, listening approach which only a cynic would attribute to the slimness of his 703-strong electoral...
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Wind it up
So who says that management education occasionally does strange and disturbing things to the English language? It was quite an achievement for Warwick Business School to explain the functions of...
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Bagged by Oxford
Nearly half a century on from independence, you might hope that Britain could be spared from blame for the continuing chaotic state of Pakistani politics. No such luck however, as the Pakistani...