Inflation busting boost for Scotland
Core funding for Scotland's higher education institutions will rise next year by 3.5 per cent, 1 per cent higher than the government's inflation assumption. The Scottish Higher Education Funding...
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Prince is given special favour
An associate college of Oxford University has admitted that the Crown Prince of Brunei received special treatment during the two years he studied at Oxford. The Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies said...
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Welsh to conduct review into student support
The Welsh Assembly is to conduct a Cubie-style review into student support alongside its wider Dearing-style inquiry into Welsh higher education. Advisers have urged the assembly to remove student...
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Whistleblowers: LJMU initiates inquiry
Michael Brown, new vice-chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University, is clearly not happy with what he has found in some key areas. He is trying to fulfil his pledge to meet all staff in all...
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In the news: Richard Wiseman
Richard Wiseman, reader in the public understanding of psychology at the University of Hertfordshire, is on a mission to promote scepticism. His mammoth telepathy experiment in London yesterday,...
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On the move
Chris Humphries , director-general of the British Chambers of Commerce and former chairman of the National Skills Taskforce, has been appointed director-general of awarding body City and Guilds . He...
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Don's Diary: Michael Phillips
Saturday Installation at Tate Britain. It is two years since being invited as a guest curator to recreate Blake's life and work in Lambeth during the 1790s. We have been lucky, obtaining more than...
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Cast into the pit
Cheltenham ladies and gentlemen have been yelling fire and brimstone over the conversion of a former Baptist church into a student pub. They have been incensed not so much by the transformation of a...
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Cabinet told to study
Seventy-five senior Ethiopian government staff graduated from the Open University this week, after being ordered to study for an OU master of business administration degree by prime minister Meles...
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Clinton for chancellor?
Rumours that President Clinton is interested in becoming chancellor of Oxford University have surprised Oxford, as a vacancy will only arise if the present chancellor Lord Jenkins dies or...
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Offering Ikareer advice
Five Dundee University medical students who won a competition run by Ikea in Edinburgh to live in the store showroom for a weekend found themselves advising a customer on more than assembling shelves...
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Glittering prizes
The Institute of Physics has made the following awards for 2001: the Glazebrook Medal and Prize to Colin Webb , University of Oxford, for his leading role in the organisation and promotion of laser...
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World View: It's the narrative, stupid
Seeing his daughter campaign with gusto has drawn Harvey Kaye wholeheartedly into an odd election Apparently (and chillingly), Texas governor George W. Bush may become the next president of the...
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Eyewitness
Twenty-five years ago 350,000 Moroccans marched into the Spanish Sahara and occupied it. This so-called Green March was the start of a long-running post-colonial dispute over the desert homeland of...
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World Watch
Paris Information technologies are valuable education tools, but they must improve access in poor as well as developed nations, the seventh Unesco/non-governmental organisations consultation on...