A victim of vocabulary
The meaning of 'university' has been debased, and with it the place itself, argues Andrew Oswald The term "university" is becoming increasingly debased. New Labour, whose University of the Labour...
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Why I believe we need to divorce widening participation from mass participation
Joe Baden, project manager, Agency for Non-traditional Students, Goldsmiths College,London. It is time that the debate surrounding widening participation moved on. Because of its immediate, and...
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Fund science at City levels, Blair urged
Universities must pay researchers City-level salaries, said the government's chief scientific adviser, David King. He was responding to a speech by prime minister Tony Blair yesterday in which Mr...
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Rise in funds per FE student
Real-terms funding per student in further education has increased by 12 per cent over the past five years, government figures reveal. Core funding for further education is estimated to have grown in...
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Scots need funds to pay £6.2 million NI bill
Universities Scotland has called for government funding to help meet an estimated £6.2 million rise in National Insurance contributions. The estimate, from a survey of Scotland's 21 higher education...
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Gender views underlie social ills, Oakley says
Popular views of the roles and relationships of men and women underlie many social problems, said Ann Oakley, director of the social science research unit at London University's Institute of...
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Sussex forum debates professor's racist view
A forum was held at the University of Sussex yesterday on issues of academic freedom, academic power and equality of students after Geoffrey Sampson, a professor of natural language processing,...
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Mallett's a real hit
The latest issue of the University of Warwick's newsletter, CommUnicate , contains an appeal for an alternative to traditional university social life "organised by female members who, from their age...
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Royal Society medals
Congratulations to the latest crop of Royal Society medal winners: John Pople has received the Copley Medal for development of computational methods in quantum chemistry; David King has been awarded...
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In the news: David Westbury
Academics today have to be much more professional than in the past, says David Westbury, pro vice-chancellor of Birmingham University, who chaired the transparency review and whose experience of...
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Don's diary: protecting gay youth
Monday After my lecture last week in Liverpool on lesbian and gay youth development and how it affects families and schools, I spend the morning playing catch-up with correspondence. I am a little...
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Universities and the NHS forge a healthy alliance
It is time to strengthen the strategic links between higher education and healthcare, argues Howard Newby There has never been a more important time for higher education and the National Health...
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Call for national policy on online learning
The government should ensure that the nascent e-University and institutions offering online learning adopt "networked" e-learning that focuses on communication and interaction between students and...
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Second shot at cup
David Beckham's team are not England's only football hope in the Far East. Plymouth University is flying the flag in the 2002 Robot Football World Cup, which began in Seoul yesterday. Mark Norman,...
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Scrubbing up well?
Eric Thomas, vice-chancellor of the University of Bristol, last week spent 90 minutes shadowing a cleaner to promote adult learners week. Surely the cleaner should have been shadowing the vice-...