Don's Diary
Sunday A lovely day and I got some of the beech hedge cut, but most of the day had to be spent reading "key publications' submitted by Dutch universities for their research assessment exercise (I am...
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Agony aunt
Q One of my third-year undergraduates looks certain to fail his degree. The problem is his father is one of the university's most important benefactors. How can I avoid impending disaster? Geoffrey...
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How to ... Stop students dropping out
WHAT Mantz Yorke suggests a radical new approach towards undergraduate curricula to encourage students to maintain their commitment to studying WHY Declines in the amount and quality of tutor-student...
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Labour targets teaching
Education is to remain the government's top priority over the next year, with the spotlight on raising standards in teaching. Plans for the "most far-reaching reforms of the teaching profession for...
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Checks on quality to be tightened after TVU
Standards checks are to be beefed up to give quality and funding chiefs earlier warning of "failing" universities and colleges. The Quality Assurance Agency and the Higher Education Funding Council...
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Half billion pound boost for NHS
The Department of Health is set to spend almost half a billion pounds on research and development next year, writes Julia Hinde. The majority of the 1999-2000 Pounds 496 million DoH research budget...
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Government angers AUT over lecturer pay
Lecturers have attacked the government's decision to wash its hands of any responsibility in determining higher education pay. The Association of University Teachers is angry at the government's...
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Part-time staff secure pro rata deal and holidays with full salary
About 20,000 part-time university lecturers on hourly rates have won the right to fully paid annual leave, writes Alan Thomson. Lecturers' union Natfhe and the Association of University Teachers have...
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Student committee bemoans toothless watchdog
The Quality Assurance Agency is "more lap-dog than watchdog" when it comes to policing student grievances, student leaders said this week. The National Postgraduate Committee said that the QAA would...
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NI PhDs lose out to tune of Pounds 1,000
Postgraduate students in Northern Ireland will receive Pounds 1,000 less in basic support than their counterparts in England, Scotland and Wales this year. A total of 345 students are affected by the...
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Postie's hand delivery horror
The grisly find of several human body parts in the town of St Andrews following student celebrations has prompted improvements in security arrangements at the university's medical school. A postman...
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Troubled TVU's teaching could be farmed out
Problems at Thames Valley University are so severe that significant chunks of teaching could be hived off to neighbouring institutions, it emerged this week. The review team appointed by the Higher...
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Physics PhD debate
Physicists are at loggerheads over whether PhD students should be required to complete a four-year degree before starting research, an issue debated at a meeting of the Standing Committee of Physics...
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Funding for 'all areas of excellence'
Higher education needs a radically restructured funding system to promote and protect diversity in the sector, a national conference was told this week. Sir Stewart Sutherland, vice- chancellor of...
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Make schools better, says Oxford
Oxford University will not throw open its doors to non-traditional students unless academic standards in secondary schools improve, the university has warned in response to widening access proposals...