Malaysia investigates franchise bribe claims
The Malaysian government is facing calls for a public inquiry into the marketing practices of institutions keen to sell overseas franchise courses to the country's students. The inquiry could have...
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Principal named
The principal of Harper Adams Agricultural College, Shropshire, has been replaced. In a surprise move, Graham McConnell left his post by mutual agreement with the college governors last week and...
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Catholic crisis call
The viability of teacher training institutions in Northern Ireland is under threat because of falling entry requirements on the mainland, according to a Catholic college principal. Martin O'Callaghan...
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Kirk targets lifelong learning
The Church of Scotland hopes to implement a voucher scheme for continuing professional development which its ministers could use for postgraduate qualifications, writes Olga Wojtas. Sandy McDonald,...
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Let the divining ROD do it
Graham Dawson and Grant Lewison describe how their Research Outputs Database can show who is funding what where. Two recent articles in The THES have drawn attention to sources of research funding...
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To wit to woo at a student's hotel
Some time ago a wit wrote a particularly provocative article in one of the business reviews. His central claim was that only 66 organisations had left their stated purposes unchanged since 1600. They...
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US boss flies home
Nancy Bord resigned this week as head of Liverpool Business School and plans to return to the United States "to pursue other interests", less than a year after her appointment as the United Kingdom's...
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Report calls for green funding
Being a deep shade of green should be a condition of winning university funding, says a report which has been welcomed by John Gummer, environment secretary, and Gillian Shephard, education and...
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Dances with greens
Environmentalists have been ranting about universities' failure to green themselves, but one exception is the greenery that has sprouted like an algal bloom over course titles. There are 1,206...
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Marriages made in heaven?
The new Association of Colleges is launched this week and the Further Education Funding Council gets a new head next month. Harriet Swain assesses their chances of shaping the future of further...
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Born to be wild
(Photograph) - Born to be wild: Jennifer Ward, a third-year zoology student at Glasgow University, studies a 100-year-old wildcat in the university's zoology museum before embarking on a year-long...
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No more 'good' or 'bad' Muslims
Jennie Bristow unpicks the attitude of the National Union of Students to 'extremist' Muslim fundamentalists. On Monday July 22, the Runnymede Trust, the independent thinktank on race relations,...
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Road to lonely learning
Cyberspace hoopla reminds us of how often technology affects the locus of learning. Writing itself, moveable type, high-speed printing, the telephone, recording devices, photocopying machines, radio...
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Sacked research boss sues UNL
A professor is suing the University of North London for alleged breach of contract after claiming he was sacked because of disagreements over research management. David Taplin, who is due to be...
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Foecke fights on
A former student lost his libel case against Bristol University this week when he could not produce a Pounds 25,000 security against future legal costs. Francis Foecke, 38, has battled against...