Union call for openness
Staff at Portsmouth University will be asked to pass a vote of no confidence in the chair of governors at a meeting next week. The decision follows outrage expressed at the restricted publication of...
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Launch of plan to learn for life
The Government is preparing to publish an important consultation paper on "lifetime learning", Gillian Shephard, Secretary of State for Education and Employment, announced this week. The document,...
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Tooterling on
A warm welcome to The TooTer, a Gateshead College Natfhe journal devoted to "reporting all that is wrong with the state of contractual arrangements within FE colleges at the present time". Given this...
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Date with Julian
Those readers who gave birth ten days ago may have missed the fact that their offspring were not only born on 10/10/1995 but also on Julian Date 2450000. If you were born years too early to achieve...
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Leeds college overspent Pounds 1m
Thomas Danby College in Leeds this week became the latest victim of charges of "inadequate" financial controls. The further education college has just discovered a budget overspend "well in excess of...
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Schools to eclipse college training
Teacher training colleges and university education departments stand to lose more funding and control to school-based training schemes under Government plans to be unveiled next week. Phased funding...
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Campus sports lobby makes its debut
Sir Roger Bannister's working party to consider the place of sports scholarships in British universities met for the first time this week. The group, which will report back to sports minister Iain...
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Sussex lookalikes
Plus ca change? A still politically-active alumnus of early 1970s Sussex University, cherishing memories of days when the Falmer campus's public spaces were "like one giant wall newspaper"...
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Eye opener
The omnipresent Open University has acquired a human billboard in the shape of Scottish Second Division football club Queen of the South, whose shirts now bear the familiar OU logo. The deal,...
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Opt-out triggers protest
Richmond Adult and Community College's bid to opt out of local authority control hit an unwelcome hitch this week when one of its governors resigned in protest against "the wilful hijacking of a...
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Asthma warning
Parents whose children suffer from asthma may make the condition worse by changing bedding from feather to synthetic fillings, according to researchers at St George's Hospital, London in this week's...
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Scots TV pioneers
Scotland's higher education institutions have taken a cautious step towards establishing their own TV channel. The Committee of Scottish Higher Education Principals this week set up a group to talk...
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Scholar fights on
Cyril Edwards, the linguistics scholar made redundant by Goldmiths College last year, has resigned from the Association of University Teachers because the union dropped its High Court case against...
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Natfhe deficit
The national executive of Natfhe, which faces a Pounds 1million shortfall in income, voted last week to hold a special rules conference in December. The union's membership has fallen by 10 per cent...
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Nerve centre opens
A new Pounds 1 million neurosciences research institute, which opened yesterday at Dundee University is expected to raise Pounds 3 million of research income over the next five years.