NI institutions drop hard line on loans
Northern Ireland's two universities have climbed down after threatening action against hard-up undergraduates who have failed to repay emergency loans issued when the Student Loans Company failed to...
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Readers' reactions
Last month in The THES... Labour MP Bill Rammell argued the government should not allow universities to charge top-up fees. Jonathan Pincus. George Gollin professor. of economicsUniversity of...
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Top jobs eluding women in education
Opportunities for women in education have declined against a trend of greater equality across all other employment sectors, according to research by Opportunity Now, the business-led equal...
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Maths teachers most likely to quit classroom
A third of all graduate school teachers drop out of teaching within five years, according to official figures. Higher and further education minister Baroness Blackstone revealed that out of the 10,...
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Pounds 10 million centre to study climate change
Ways to mitigate the impact of climate change on the United Kingdom will be investigated at a new Pounds 10 million national centre to be based at the University of East Anglia. A consortium of nine...
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Student numbers down in the Welsh valleys
Mature students, mostly studying part-time, make up almost half of all higher education students in Wales. A report on participation by the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales found that in...
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Ofsted methods are unpopular with colleges
Ofsted, the schools standards watchdog which is to take lead responsibility for the inspection of all post-16 provision next year, appears to favour measures unpopular with colleges, according to the...
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Centre to focus on super-bugs and cancer
A Pounds 50 million science centre was officially opened at University College London on Monday. The Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research will bring together 250 experts in a former Victorian...
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Professor James Mitchell
We have been asked by Professor James Mitchell to point out that he does not, as we implied (THES, April 7 2000), think the appointment of a director of the Economic and Social Research Council's...
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THES on the web
United Kingdom universities are ranked by 12 different indicators inthis year's THES league tables. Not just a where-to-study guide, the tables provide a snapshot of the fast-changing HE sector....
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Next week
NEWS. How social work is losing out. FEATURES. Tim Cornwell reports on the students campaigning against the use of Third World sweatshops. BOOKS. Mark Kidel reviews Nicholas Fox Weber's biography of...
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The men with their fingers on the pulse
Improvedcareer prospects and the ability to show a caring side are turning men to nursing. Claire Sanders reports. Jonathan Shaw was attracted to nursing by the prospect of a structured career. After...
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Thinkers may get control of ideas
Thousands of civil service researchers could have their contracts amended to allow them to make money from commercialising intellectual property generated by their work. Whitehall sources said the...
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Scotland scores first with virtual conference
Peter Helms's bedside manner leaves a lot to be desired. Aberdeen University's professor of child health ignores a young mother as she struggles into his clinic with a baby and pushchair, refuses to...
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High-tech star to lead Stanford
A computer scientist and engineer who started his own high-tech company and has a record of coaxing huge donations out of California's Silicon Valley has been chosen as the next president of Stanford...