Final demand
(Photograph) - University of London staff last week presented their employer with a demand for Pounds 150 each. Unions MSF, Unison and the Association of University Teachers say that the London...
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Pounds 4m carrot dangled for good teaching
A Pounds 4 million funding programme aimed at rewarding teaching quality has got the go-ahead from the Higher Education Funding Council for England. Seen as a possible stalking horse for a teaching...
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Welsh online
All Welsh further education colleges will be on the JANET academic superhighway by the middle of next year, according to the Further Education Funding Council for Wales.
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Mike Laugharne
Mike Laugharne is head of quality assessment division at the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales, not England as we reported last week.
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Foresight fever
Bids in the first round of the Foresight Challenge competition have surprised the Office of Science and Technology by reaching more than 500 in number. Foresight Challenge, a competition aimed at...
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Teacher trawl
The Teacher Training Agency has offered Pounds 10 million to universities and colleges to induce them to recruit more trainee teachers in shortage subjects such as mathematics, modern languages and...
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A level demise
A levels will not be the main route to higher level qualifications in the future, the National Advisory Council for Education and Training Targets has predicted. It calls for more flexible...
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Safety risk closes Belfast job centre
Belfast Institute of Further and Higher Education has shut one of its buildings because of health and safety fears. The closure of the Jobs Skills Centre came as a report revealed many of the...
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Contract wrangle
The governing body of Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen was this week to decide whether to introduce a new contract with longer working hours and shorter annual holidays for appointments made from...
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Part-timers turn to Europe
Thousands of part-time lecturers who had their hopes of backdated pension claims dashed at an industrial tribunal in Birmingham last week are to take their case to Europe via the Employment Appeals...
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Combating AIDS via drug users
Public health campaigns which accept that some drug users will continue to use drugs play a vital role in combating the AIDS threat, according to a Canadian expert. Eric Single, professor of...
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Code of conduct for overseas deals
All United Kingdom universities and most further education colleges are to face sanctions for the first time if they breach guidelines for overseas student recruitment practices and the delivery of...
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Liability law pleas rebuffed
The Government has turned down pleas for new laws to protect university and college governors from personal liability where their institutions run into serious financial problems. Department for...
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Docklands go ahead
A London docklands university is to become a reality with the Government's decision to approve a Pounds 16 million technology centre in the Royal Docks in East London. A Pounds 7.8 million grant from...
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Bread line
Precise image of the week belonged, unwittingly or not, to the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals' spokesman who described the assembled bosses as "aerated" when they met to discuss the...