Last updated 06/10/2006
SCHOOLS
Head bullied his staff - claim
Birmingham Post - 27/09/2006
A West Midlands headteacher was yesterday accused of running his school like a dictatorship, ordering staff to make individual pledges of support at meetings and bullying and intimidating those who displeased him.
Head teachers launch Ofsted watch
BBC News - 23/09/2006
Head teachers in England have launched "Offwatch" - a confidential system for reporting allegations of unprofessional behaviour by Ofsted inspectors.
FURTHER EDUCATION
Brown advised to scrap quango to invest in skills
TES FE Focus - 29/09/2006
Gordon Brown will be urged by one of his closest advisors to kill off a swathe of quangos and redirect the cash to basic skills, with the Learning and Skills Council top of the list.
Pledge over pupils' college days
BBC News - 26/09/2006
Colleges and schools are being assured that a scheme that has enabled tens of thousands of pupils to do vocational courses in colleges is not at risk.
HIGHER EDUCATION
Be good, or else
Sunday Times - 24/09/2006
Students are being asked to sign contracts in which they promise to behave themselves, work hard and turn up to lectures on time. Two universities, Oxford and Chester, have already introduced the legally binding contracts, with more expected to follow suit.
Crumbling campuses face £5bn repair bill
THES - 29/09/2006
Almost a third of university buildings in England are unfit for use or are in need of repair, a report for the Government has revealed.
Oxford college fund opened to private investors
Independent - 03/10/2006
An investment fund set up to help Oxford University colleges generate more steady returns from their capital is to be opened to private investors for the first time.
Oxford dons get cut of land sale
Sunday Times - 01/10/2006
An Oxford college is to use the proceeds of a £55m windfall to pay bonuses of £30,000 to each of its dons.
Push to gain success from university spin-outs
Financial Times - 25/09/2006
Creating profitable businesses from university developed technology is a significant challenge and will be the subject of a major conference hosted by the British Venture Capital Association tomorrow in London.
Put through the mill over the recovery of tax costs
Estates Gazette - 23.09.06
VAT planning by educational bodies can only have been made more difficult by two recent cases with very different outcomes.
Reading closes physics department
BBC News - 02/10/2006
The University of Reading is to close its physics department, this month's intake of 30 students being the last. Reading said it regretted the decision, but the sort of investment that the department needed was not possible "in the current funding context".
Universities face bankruptcy
The Times - 26/09/2006
It's crunch time for universities. As the higher education sector waits for the impact of top-up fees to kick in, vice-chancellors are predicting that some universities may be forced to declare themselves bankrupt.
University to create own power
The Guardian - 26/09/2006
Loughborough University has announced plans to generate all of its own electricity in a bid to cut carbon dioxide emissions.
US maintains visa ban on Muslim academic
The Guardian - 26/09/2006
The US government has refused to grant a visa to the Muslim scholar Tariq Ramadan, a vocal critic of the US invasion of Iraq, but has dropped earlier charges against him of supporting terrorism, it has emerged.
