A BILLION-pound sweetener may have to be paid to the private sector purchaser of the student loan debt at a time of rising university debt, the House of Lords heard this week. Baroness Maddock,...
Relief for Ken Edwards, vice chancellor of the University of Leicester. The chance of his becoming higher education's answer to JFK has eased somewhat after a failed appeal to the city's Crown Court...
Kingston University's departing vice chancellor, Robert Smith, appears to have union relations down to a fine art. Natfhe leaders have complained about the university spending a cool Pounds 11,961...
Date for your diary: next Thursday, 10am sharp at Horseferry Road Magistrates Court, London. Be there to support this column's favourite artist, Anthony-Noel Kelly. As we have reported, his choice of...
Alumnus to be proud of No. 150 has just demonstrated his family's ability to attract tabloid attention. That well-known exemplar of family values, Charles Edward Maurice, 9th Earl Spencer, qualifies...
Trouble getting that elusive Christmas present for the person who has everything? Not surprising: Sir Ron Dearing's report has vanished completely from the nation's bookshops. There are plenty of...
MPs are often reputedly driven to drink by their constituents, but not many of them are as frank about it as Don Foster, Liberal Democrat education spokesman and MP for Bath. An assiduous attender at...
Margaret Beckett, president of the Board of Trade, started her speech to Save British Science's annual general meeting by explaining why she was addressing them. "This is an invitation I felt not...
The Scottish Office brochures explaining to a grateful public what the student support arrangements will be from 1998-99 include a handy erratum slip pointing out, for example, that the reference to...
BY INTRODUCING the Teaching and Higher Education Bill in the House of Lords the government has left its legislation vulnerable to a major potential pitfall. This is because bills introduced in the...
The DFEE confirmed this week that local education authorities will pay the full Pounds 1,000 tuition fee of students on PGCE courses.
MPs were left unconvinced of the value of the work of the Further Education Development Agency after its chief executive, Stephen Crowne, appeared as a witness before the Commons education and...
Stan Mason, former principal of Glasgow Caledonian University, has applied for an industrial tribunal hearing, claiming that he has been unfairly dismissed. The university has warned that Dr Mason,...
University museum collections of national and international importance are at risk because of "severe" funding problems, according to the Museums and Galleries Commission. Giving evidence recently to...
Scottish further education colleges are being asked to "shoot blind" in consultation on a new funding formula in the absence of information on the sector's budget, the Association of Scottish...