APU announces new v-c
Anglia Polytechnic University has announced that David Tidmarsh will take over from vice-chancellor Michael Malone-Lee when he retires next autumn. Professor Tidmarsh is pro vice-chancellor of the...
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Standards 'charade'
Statisticians this week delivered a damning verdict on scientific standards applied in performance monitoring of higher education and other public services. A working party of the Royal Statistical...
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Teacher training boost
The number of new entrants to initial teacher training rose to 31,885 in 2001-02 from 30,765 in 2000-01. Figures released this week by the Higher Education Statistics Agency show a rise in students...
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E-foundation degree
Education secretary Charles Clarke gave his blessing to an online foundation degree in business and management this week. The degree has been launched jointly by Bournemouth and Leeds Metropolitan...
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Comedian 1 Scud stud 0 in style wars
What is it that University College London graduates such as comedian Ricky Gervais, the members of pop group Coldplay and Alex Comfort, author of Joy of Sex , have that Oxford University graduates...
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Deficit at Liverpool Hope sparks spending fracas
Union leaders have criticised "lavish and needless" spending at Liverpool Hope University College as it confirmed a deficit approaching £1 million. The college this week said it was due to confirm an...
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'Don't ration top-rate grade'
Universities and colleges have objected to government proposals to set in advance the proportion of top grades a subject can receive for research. Proposals in Sir Gareth Roberts' review of research...
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GM debate cut down by threats and abuse
Plant scientists using the technology of genetic modification are being driven out of the UK by increasingly vicious protests. Anna Fazackerley talks to some of them Plant scientists are questioning...
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UUK: no evidence to back research focus
The government has produced no evidence to back its plans to concentrate research -a move that would serve only to stunt regional economies and handicap UK higher education in the international arena...
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Provost warns of designer culture
Students may increasingly choose a university in much the same way as people opt for designer clothes with the right "label", a former government economics adviser has warned. Sir Alan Budd, former...
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Welsh students condemn £16m cut in hardship support
Welsh Assembly plans to cut student access and hardship funds have been condemned by politicians and student union leaders. The assembly's planned budget for the next financial year shows a spending...
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Contract sparks row over IP rights
A Cambridge academic whose pioneering leukemia drug Campath generates more than £500,000 a year for the university this week revealed how the institution approved disclosure of his research results...
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Peer review rejig axed in crisis fear
Funding chiefs have abandoned plans to force universities to publish reports by their external examiners amid concerns that opening up the traditionally confidential peer-review system would plunge...
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Business makes £2m deal with York
York University has become the latest partner of private intellectual property company IP2IPO in a deal worth more than £2 million to the institution. The university's Centre for Novel Agricultural...
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Do as I say, not as I do
The prime minister's attitude to higher education is indicated in an extract from Robin Cook's recently published diaries. The former leader of the Commons writes: "Roy Hattersley tells me of an...