Last updated 12/05/2006
SCHOOLS
Head questions sentence for teacher attack
The Guardian - 04/05/2006
The headteacher of a school where a teacher was attacked and seriously injured by former pupils today questioned whether the six-month sentence handed down to one of the teenagers "sent out the right message".
House of Lords' decisions in Begum and Ali reviewed (case decided that refusal to allow pupil to wear Muslim dress did not breach right to manifest religious beliefs or the right to education).
Legal Action - May 2006
Johnson takes over education job
BBC News - 05/05/2006
Alan Johnson takes over the job of Education Secretary as Ruth Kelly moves on, in the Government reshuffle.
HIGHER EDUCATION
Cumbria finds home for university plans
The Guardian - 05/05/2006
The proposed University for Cumbria moved a step closer to reality today when it was promised campuses in Carlisle and Penrith.
Degree plan splits Welsh
THES - 05/05/2006
Welsh academics, vice-chancellors and students remain deeply divided over plans to prevent the disintegration of the University of Wales by giving its colleges more power over their degrees.
Huge student 'no' to boycott
THES - 05/05/2006
Almost eight out of ten students oppose the boycott of exams and coursework called by the academic unions as part of their pay dispute, the first national poll of student attitudes to the lecturers' action has revealed.
Journals 'regularly publish fraudulent research'
The Guardian - 04/05/2006
Fraudulent research regularly appears in the 30,000 scientific journals published worldwide, a former editor of the British Medical Journal said today.
Law school given degree-awarding powers
The Guardian - 08/05/2006
The College of Law today becomes the first non-university to be given the power to award degrees in England and Wales.
Lecturers start crucial pay talks
The Guardian - 08/05/2006
Lecturers today began a crunch meeting with employers to try to end a two-month pay dispute that is threatening to delay student graduations. The Association of University Teachers and the lecturers' union Natfhe have begun pay negotiations with the Universities and Colleges Employers' Association.
MPs warn on science departments
Financial Times - 04/05/2006
The Government must seize more control over universities to stop them closing science, technology, engineering and mathematics departments, MPs have demanded.
New voice in universities debate
BBC News - 04/05/2006
Several universities have joined together to lobby on research funding and other key higher education issues. A main focus for the "alliance of non-aligned universities" will be the future of the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE).
Second university offers lecturers pay deal
The Guardian - 04/05/2006
Another Scottish university has decided to go it alone in an attempt to break the nationwide deadlock over the lecturers' pay dispute. Aberdeen University offered its academic staff a 12 per cent pay increase over the next three years - just as St Andrews University did 24 hours earlier.
Wolverhampton bucks China trend with Kenyan alliance
The Guardian - 05/05/2006
The University of Wolverhampton announced this week that it had signed a memorandum of understanding with Kabarak University in Kenya, which will involve student and staff exchanges, research collaboration and the development of degree programmes.
