Stargaze in Chile prompts UK pain
A wide-ranging review of the United Kingdom's ground-based observatories is under consideration. The astronomy committee of the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council last week agreed to...
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QAA to tighten reins on MAs
Universities have damaged British higher education by cashing in on demand for degrees with the masters title, quality chiefs said this week. Too many masters courses have been set up with too little...
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QAA's paper for Scotland
The Quality Assurance Agency has backtracked on its bid to axe the MA title used by Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Heriot-Watt and St Andrews universities for some undergraduate degrees,...
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Greenaway report's executive summary
Looking Backwards: Higher Education in the UK * In less than a generation, the UK's higher education system has been transformed from an elite to a mass system. Participation increased dramatically...
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Top-up fees verdict? 'The only way forward'
A report commissioned by the Russell Group says top-up fees will widen access to HE and allow British universities to compete globally. Tony Tysome reports Top-up fees are the only way forward if...
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In the news
The mysterious disappearance of Sufiah Yusof, 15, Oxford University's youngest undergraduate since Ruth Lawrence, has prompted fresh calls for research into the impact of radically accelerated...
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Glittering prizes
Mary Quant, fashion designer, is to receive an honorary degree from Winchester School of Art today. Sir Stirling Moss has been awarded an honorary doctorate of technology from the University of...
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Old MA ties
The minefield that is the Oxbridge MA does not stop at BA graduates being awarded the degree simply for keeping their noses clean for a few years after graduating. Under current statutes, the...
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MP's not-so-wild youth
Social security minister Jeff Rooker has been recalling his prudent undergraduate days at Aston University for the National Union of Students' magazine. Far from indulging in the present student...
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Get real, Nelson
Optimism inspired by the most evocative of sources fuelled talks over lecturers' pay between trade union Natfhe and the Universities and Colleges Employers Association this week. Natfhe submitted its...
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Eyewitness
As the13th International Aids Conference opens in South Africa, controversy has erupted among scientific experts over the existence of a causal link between the HIV virus and Aids. Yesterday, the "...
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Estonia moves a ministry
Estonia's ministry of education is to move from the capital, Tallinn, to the university city of Tartu during the next academic year. The move, scheduled to be completed by 2001, will cost upwards of...
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PM takes over as popular education minister quits
Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak has temporarily taken over the education ministry after its minister, Yossi Sarid, resigned despite a direct appeal from student leaders for him to remain in the...
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Students plead for less maths
French economics students have launched an internet petition protesting that their courses are too mathematical, theoretical and divorced from reality, and demanding "a pluralistic approach" to the...
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British push to woo Cypriots
British universities and colleges have stepped up their efforts to recruit Greek Cypriot students. Next month, for the second summer running, there will be a mission to recruit post A-level students...