Nursing a grudge
I take issue with the tone of Claire Sanders's article ("Practice makes perfect?" THES, January 21), which implies that there is something wrong with the way nursing education is delivered. There is...
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'Mockery' made of inquiry
Student support: Cubie compromise for Scotland, Blunkett boost for rest of UK Scottish students reacted with anger at the Scottish Executive's refusal this week to implement in full the Cubie report...
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Blunkett deal a policy 'U-turn'
Student grants are to be reintroduced in England and Wales, prompting claims of a government U-turn that leaves its undergraduate support policy in tatters, writes Alan Thomson. Education secretary...
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European law dictates what makes a Scottish student
The most contentious proposal is to abolish fees for Scottish students in Scotland, while Scots studying elsewhere in the United Kingdom will continue to pay fees. A Scottish student is one who was...
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Kinshasa
Security agents disrupted a rally by students from the Universite Nationale of the Democratic Republic of Congo outside the home of Olinga Koy, a former university teacher and a leading opposition...
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Pupils delay university choice
More students are delaying applying to university, according to figures released today by the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service. The number of potential students who applied by the...
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Pole position
(Photograph) - Pole position: Wladyslaw Bednarowski, 94, a former reader in logic at Aberdeen University, has endowed a trust to promote Polish and Scottish academic ties. Dr Bednarowski became a...
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Branson contacted to fund fertility work
In vitro fertilisation pioneer Simon Fishel told the High Court this week that as part of a push to attract high-profile financial support to Nottingham University, he asked Richard Branson to back a...
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Keele biomedic accused of research fraud
An internationally acclaimed biomedical engineer and his personal assistant defrauded the University of Keele and a health authority of thousands of pounds earmarked for research projects, a court...
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Chelsea sets sites on MoD Millbank
A bid by Chelsea College of Art and Design to move to Millbank, next to the Tate Gallery, has received a big boost with the gallery's trustees throwing their weight behind the plan. The site, the...
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No-show fears for comet date
The European Space Agency's bid to land a probe on a comet has been plagued by management delays that threaten to derail the whole project. Officials have introduced a package of radical measures in...
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Derby refuses to meet pay deal yet v-c's wage soars
Lecturers' union Nathfe has called on academics across the United Kingdom to "isolate" the University of Derby with a national boycott until it increases pay in line with an agreed deal. The union...
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Hull team reinvestigated
A catalogue of mismanagement by a husband-and-wife team at Hull University, involving the irregular inflation of overseas students' degree results and unaccountable decision-making, has attracted the...
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Rethink on copyright
One of Britain's biggest publishing bodies has produced a draft "licence to publish" that promises to result in many of its members handing over copyright on journal articles to their authors. The...
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In league: Sunderland University and Sunderland Association Football Club
(Photograph) - In league: Sunderland University and Sunderland Association Football Club have signed an official partnership deal to promote learning both at home and away. Peter Fidler, left,...