Last updated 20/06/2006
SCHOOLS
Academies face legal challenges
BBC News - 13/06/2006
Several groups of parents are launching legal challenges to the city academies programme in England, with some arguing it infringes human rights. They will try to show that consultation processes for the new schools are flawed during three hearings set for the High Court next month.
Brown's schools U-turn claim
Birmingham Post - 16/06/2006
Chancellor Gordon Brown acknowledged yesterday that his pledge to raise spending on state school pupils to that of the private sector was an "ambition".
Church in dock over stance on gay people
Birmingham Post - 19/06/2006
The Church of England has been condemned for demanding that faith schools should be exempt from planned new laws to ban discrimination against gay and lesbian people.
Lapses in teacher vetting records
BBC News - 20/06/2006
Schools are failing to keep "even the simplest" records of whether their staff are safe to work with children, a Government-commissioned report says.
FURTHER EDUCATION
Colleges to share £200m campus
The Scotsman - 15/06/2006
A purpose-built £200 million campus to house four Glasgow colleges was unveiled yesterday, in what has been described as the most ambitious further education project in Britain.
HIGHER EDUCATION
Animal rights militants are paid legal aid
The Sunday Times - 18/06/2006
Animal rights militants, including one convicted for a bombing conspiracy, are receiving tens of thousands of pounds in taxpayers’ money to fight plans by Oxford University to set up an animal research laboratory.
Big rise in student visas raises fear of scams
Daily Telegraph - 14/06/2006
Labour's immigration policy was under fresh attack last night after the Government admitted that it had no firm data on how many foreign students left the UK after the completion of their courses.
Four more universities join 1994 group
The Guardian - 14/06/2006
Four institutions are to join the 1994 group of research-intensive universities, bringing its total membership to 19. They are Leicester, Loughborough, the School of Oriental and African Studies and Queen Mary, University of London.
Graduates 'in arrears' with loans
BBC News - 16/06/2006
Many graduates are failing to keep up with their student loan repayments, statistics show. Opposition MPs called on the Government to address the issue of student debt.
Judge bans animal rights protest at builders' digs
Daily Telegraph - 13/06/2006
Animal rights activists have been banned from demonstrating in a Cotswold village where construction workers from Oxford University's new research laboratory are being accommodated.
London's student housing crisis
Property Week - 16/06/2006
London's universities are struggling to provide housing for the rapidly rising student population, according to research by CB Richard Ellis.
New universities 'attract cash'
BBC News - 20/06/2006
Universities which receive little government funding for research are better at appealing to companies for money, a report suggests. Newer institutions get three times as much from businesses per pound of Government income as older universities, according to a study.
Plagiarism and Google generation under spotlight
The Guardian - 19/06/2006
More than half of all university students believe their tutors would fail to spot work plagiarised from the internet, a new survey has revealed. The preliminary results, to be presented to an international conference on plagiarism in Gateshead starting today, also include a finding that, while 52% of students thought they could get away with copying work from the internet, 87% backed the use of electronic detection software.
Poll predicts close pay vote
THES - 16/06/2006
The 13.1 per cent pay deal agreed between union leaders and employers last week is hanging in the balance, as an exclusive poll for The Times Higher suggests that most union members are likely to reject it.
Research funding winners and losers emerge
The Guardian - 14/06/2006
Cambridge and Manchester Universities stand to be the biggest losers under the Government's proposals to change the way research is funded.
Saving the midnight oil
The Guardian - 14/06/2006
Student concern is forcing universities to do their part in tackling climate change, both on campus and off.
Scots charge medics £1,000 more for crossing the Border
The Scotsman - 16/06/2006
Students from England are to be charged fees of £2,700 a year to study medicine at universities north of the Border, £1,000 more than to study other subjects.
Statistics to dominate research
The Guardian - 13/06/2006
Radical changes to the way British academic research is assessed and funded were announced today.
Student cheats hire ghostwriters
The Times - 13/06/2006
Students from Britain's top universities are cheating on coursework by hiring researchers over the internet to complete it, a study suggests.
University pay ballot takes weeks
BBC News - 16/06/2006
The outcome of a ballot on a university pay deal is unlikely to be known for at least another month. Although national negotiators agreed a rise of 13.1% over three years on Tuesday of last week, ballot papers will not go to members until next week.
