Ucas to put ideas in young minds
The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service is preparing to launch a careers website designed to get school pupils thinking earlier about higher education. Code-named "Advancement", the project...
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Praise for initiative that offers OU study to bright-spark pupils
Bright sixth-formers could be offered university courses alongside traditional A and AS levels following the success of a pilot scheme in the north of England. The Open University said an experiment...
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V-c plans entente for Kent
Kent University is planning a cross-Channel university while extending its partnerships with local colleges, incoming vice-chancellor David Melville said this week. Professor Melville, who takes over...
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Car scheme may hit staff pockets
A government initiative to raise money to improve city transport could cost university staff across the country millions of pounds, Nottingham University chiefs have warned. Local authorities have...
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Analysis: Odd jobs are ever more common
To cover the cost of a degree, more young people are taking paid work. Student stocktakers, sperm donors and models tell Cherry Canovan of the highs and lows of work and study. Students are...
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Whistleblowers
Bath ad sparks race row Bath University could be in trouble with the Commission for Racial Equality for including discriminatory conditions in an advertisement for a job vacancy. The CRE confirmed...
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On the move
Diana Walford , director of the Public Health Laboratory Service, has been elected principal of Mansfield College , Oxford, after David Marquand, retires in October 2002. The composer and conductor...
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In the news: Laura D'Andrea Tyson
As dean of the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, Laura D'Andrea Tyson was the first woman to head a major American business school. This week, she was named the first...
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Don's Diary
Wednesday A second day of tutorials with International Red Cross managers in Nairobi. We look at their assignments: cultural diversity within the Red Cross, humanitarian advocacy in the information...
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Glittering prizes
Kate Storey , a principal investigator who runs a research group in the Wellcome Trust Biocentre at the University of Dundee, has received a five-year senior non-clinical fellowship worth £900,000...
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Singing for his supper
Tuition fees should be doubled... if students were not doing part-time jobs they would only be watching television... higher education is a middle-class tax perk... Strange that there was no whisper...
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Eat your heart out Rita
Willy Russell's Rita would not have a hope. A BBC trailer for Open University programmes contrasts OU television of the 1970s, complete with wide-collared lecturer and pointing baton, with its new...
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Surfing for a place
The number of extra places available this year will make clearing a breeze for many students. However, a laid-back approach is unwise for anyone wanting to study for the University of Plymouth's BSc...
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Bottom of the business
The bottoms and elbows of future captains of industry are to be well looked after, thanks to Lord Sainsbury of Preston Candover. He donated £125,000 to the Said Business School in Oxford, to be spent...
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The thrill of pioneer spirits
Dorothy Zinberg was exhilarated by the sense of academic possibilities in Turkey's new Sabanci University Fantasies are cheap; making them real is quite another story. Having spent my professional...