FE demands time to improve
Further education college and funding heads want more time to rectify problems identified by Ofsted inspectors, writes Tony Tysome. Last week's annual report from the inspection agency says that...
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Designer who aims to be in a class of his own one day
After spending several months in London primary school classrooms, designer Mark Champkins has won a place on Nesta's graduate pioneer programme. Realising that designers working on educational...
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Nesta pioneers do the business
Graduates of design, architecture, crafts, fashion, film, music, performing arts, publishing and television and radio courses are being exposed to business realities as part of a drive to improve...
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Survey 'weeded out' critical voices
Universities were able to silence critical voices in the recent pilot national student satisfaction survey by "weeding out" up to a third of those eligible to take part, The Times Higher has learnt....
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Rome
A U-turn by an Italian senate committee has scuppered hopes that the government would escape the threat of daily fines of €309,750 (£212,000) for failing to comply with European law and change the...
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Harare
Lovemore Madhuku, a University of Zimbabwe law lecturer and leader of the country's National Constitutional Assembly, is said to have been beaten by riot police and left for dead last week. The...
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Minsk
Jewish organisations in and outside Belarus have condemned the closure of the International Humanities Institute at Belarus State University, the only higher education institution in the country that...
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Ouagadougou
University teachers, researchers and higher education experts from eight Francophone member countries in West Africa have 15 months to agree a strategy to use a grant of CFAfr1.5 billion (£1.6...
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Brasilia
Brazil's president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, has promised an affirmative action plan to increase the number of Brazilians attending university, especially those from ethnic minority groups. Five...
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'Quality police' axe poor colleges
A special Russian education ministry commission - dubbed the "quality police" by the press and feared by university rectors - is cracking down on corruption and low teaching standards. The commission...
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Only elite need apply
An experiment at transplanting the concept of an Oxbridge college to Italy's monolithic university system is completing its first full year of operation. Two years ago a group of graduate students...
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Utrecht forced to reopen inquiry into lecturer's 'support' for racist theory
Utrecht University has been forced to investigate the way a social sciences lecturer discussed a controversial race theory with students, after it had initially concluded he had acted properly. In a...
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Union fears research score and pay link
A New Zealand lecturers' union has called for individual scores in the country's version of the research assessment exercise to remain confidential, fearing that they will be used to determine...
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Critics round on premier's boozy plans
A Canadian provincial premier has caused uproar by suggesting that the legal drinking age should be reduced to help cut the number of students who leave to study elsewhere in the country. Lorne...
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RAE rejig is well judged
This week's outline for the next research assessment exercise steers a careful course between the universities' demands for less bureaucracy and ministers' insistence on a system that continues to...