NUS keys into open access by global college
A global further and higher education virtual college with open access for everyone and driven by student demand was unveiled this week as the National Union of Students' vision for learning in the...
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Lawyers predict claims deluge after pension victory
A further education lecturer's High Court victory over pension rights may bring "copycat" claims costing colleges thousands of pounds, lawyers warned this week, Tony Tysome writes. The court's ruling...
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Waterworks
(Photograph) - Waterworks: Students Louise King (front) and Marsha Skinns from the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester practise at Rydal Water during this year's Lake District Summer Music...
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Apply-by-Net plan
University applications via the Internet could be a reality within the next two years, if technology and access advance sufficiently for the needs of the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service...
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Internet news
The THES Internet Service includes details of the contents of this week's newspaper and all our advertisements, updated on the Tuesday before publication of the paper. The service is availableon the...
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Alexei Sayle judges the Thames Valley University and Trotman and Company Ltd national video competition
(Photograph) - Celebrity stare: Alexei Sayle, one of the judges in the Thames Valley University and Trotman and Company Ltd national video competition for schools, colleges and universities earlier...
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Principals face dreaded return of league tables
Many colleges will be dismayed to learn this week that the Government is committed to another round of performance league tables and has set out arrangements for collecting data for this year, writes...
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People policy bolsters training
The quality of training has improved dramatically since the launch of the Government's Investors in People initiative, according to a report by the Sussex-based Institute for Employment Studies. The...
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Leeson gamble
As sweltering graduation ceremonies come to their sweaty end across sun-baked Britain, Antithesis hopes to highlight those heart-warming Alumni To Be Proud Of in forthcoming weeks. Case in point...
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Cannon has ball
Is there no limit to the versatility of Manchester Business School director Tom Cannon? Since joining MBS's long list of ex-directors he has impinged on the national consciousness in a number of...
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Runway success
They did things differently in those days no 1,832: Open University vice chancellor John Daniel interviewed for Lifting It Off The Page, a lively volume of OU personal memoirs, recalls the interviews...
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Grant dodging
A Glasgow University research council grants committee member has issued his colleagues with a handy guide on grant applications. In order to avoid the extra work and higher research profile which a...
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Spanish main
No contest for the research assessment panel most likely to cause a diplomatic incident with one of our European partners. Number 44 Spanish (including Portuguese) will doubtless go down a bomb with...
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Not cricket
At last we know who is really to blame for the state of the British economy - Dominic Cork. English cricket's hat-trick hero against the West Indies is exposed by incisive revisionist analysis in the...
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Colleges want new HEQC
Colleges of higher education want a complete restructuring of the Higher Education Quality Council to speed up the establishment of a revised system of quality assurance. The Standing Conference of...