GNVQs are `already popular'
General National Vocational Qualifications were vigorously defended as "along the right lines" and "already extremely popular" by Tim Boswell, minister for further and higher education, at a...
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Pension claims threaten budgets
Higher and further education colleges could face financial collapse if academic and non-academic part-time staff refused access to pensions schemes ask for their membership to be backdated....
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Midland colleges admit rights mistake
Fifteen further education colleges in the West Midlands have admitted breaking the law over part-time lecturers' rights and have backed off from a costly legal battle. The University of Central...
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Ratings `siphon off' funds
University heads have criticised the assessment scale proposed for the next research selectivity exercise fearing that it will siphon off money from top-rated departments. Delegates at a meeting of...
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Portillo dashes training cash hope
Any hope of a November Budget handout for industry-led training was dashed this week by Michael Portillo, Secretary of State for Employment. Mr Portillo was responding to criticism from Sir Clifford...
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Billionaire backer for India study
Cambridge University has received Pounds 1 million from an Indian billionaire businessman to establish the first research institute in Europe dedicated to the study of India's religio-cultural and...
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Catholic job case settled
The University of Ulster has paid Pounds 7,500 compensation in a religious discrimination case. The case, involving Gerald Doherty, a part-time adult education lecturer, had been due to run all week...
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Jobs drying up for graduates
Employment experts said this week that job prospects for next year's graduates are bleak. The Institute for Employment Studies says the graduate market remains characterised by "surpluses rather than...
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Pick of the crop
Optimist of the week is Jon Rogers, a Hull graduate in electronic engineering who has landed the job of assistant to Stephen Hawking, the theoretical physicist. He was surprised to win the job but...
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Guildford two
Can any current -- as opposed to emeritus -- British academic claim a longer period of continuous service than that inspired by the University of Surrey? At the same time as saying goodbye to Anthony...
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Tunnel trouble
Civil engineering departments rushed for this month's Tunnels and Tunnelling magazine, published the day after the Heathrow tunnel collapse. Sadly, its printing deadlines meant that the disaster was...
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Armchair charity
Charities upset that the national lottery might hamper their fundraising are comforting themselves that, in order to take part, competitors must both drag themselves down to the shops and have a fair...
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Lottery survival
But if as a smoker under 40 with no established newspaper pattern you do enter the lottery, then tackle the task in the academic way by reading the numerous books on how to win, based on statistical...
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Plain sailing
New university it may be, but Plymouth is clearly maintaining the city's ancient maritime traditions -- its team came second in the recent World Student Yachting Cup. Anyone know how its bowls team...
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Falling star
The University of Glasgow has good and bad news from John "Fred" Brown, professor in the department of physics and astronomy. The bad news is that he feels "obliged to resign my post" and fellowship...