FE funding overhaul ahead
Radical changes in the way higher education is funded in further education colleges are to be considered by funding council chiefs. Proposals contained in a report published this week call for...
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Colleges hit by Pounds 1.4m bill
Three colleges in the Northeast have been left with a bill of more than Pounds 1.4 million after losing a High Court battle with Cleveland County Council. The colleges are not the first to dispute...
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Rise and shine en Provence
A top American business school is courting British and European students by setting up a base in the Provence region of France. Northwestern University's J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management...
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Foreign lessons for Ron
Sir Ron Dearing will look abroad to answer key questions facing the Robbins-style higher education inquiry launched this week. Sir Ron, who is to head the inquiry, said that other countries were...
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Cut pages
The Libraries Association is to survey library heads in the higher education sector on the effects of university funding cuts. The results will be published in the spring or early summer. It fears...
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LibDems want cap on tuition
Tuition fees should be capped and institutions which overcharge for courses should be fined, the Liberal Democrats said this week. Unveiling his party's "lifelong learning" policy paper, Paddy...
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Way off target
The much-trumpeted Modern Apprenticeship scheme is failing to take off according to the latest Government figures. Currently, 15,000 young people are pursuing a national vocational qualification...
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Â鶹rton ushered into Cambridge elite
Â鶹rton College, a specialist teacher training institution in Cambridge, is to become more like other Cambridge colleges after being given the go-ahead to admit students for the university's...
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Threat of Internet libel recedes for institutions
The threat of universities being sued for defamatory comments put on the Internet by their students or employees has receded. Conversely, anyone libelled by a university's employee or student, using...
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Historian goes shopping for FBI
A British history professor played a central role in an elaborate FBI sting to catch a Smithsonian curator selling military artifacts from the United States' national collection, it has been revealed...
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LSE director to chair British Library
The London School of Economics is to appoint a caretaker director following the debacle surrounding Sir John Bourn's surprise decision to turn down the job. The news came as the Department of...
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Cartel in awards slammed
A report on the activities of awarding bodies published this week has raised serious concern about the way externally assessed qualifications are run as commercial businesses "lacking proper...
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THESIS
Every week THESIS, The THES Internet Service, provides a guide to the news, features and reviews in the newspaper. Job advertisements appear on THESISon the Tuesday before publication. The service is...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word is from a book that introduced one of Britain's postwar heroes to a restless generation: "The Welches withdrew and began getting into their car. Moaning, Dixon allowed...
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Speaking Volumes: Oxfordshire
Guy M. Robinson on Frank Emery's Oxfordshire . Before I encountered Frank Emery's Oxfordshire in the early 1970s, I was convinced that to be respectable academic geography must contain equations. If...