Access: from feelgood outsider to core priority
Widening access to higher education may not be easy, but it is possible. Leslie Wagner looks at the role of the new Access Advisory Partnership The focus on access and wider participation has become...
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Why I ...think men should be encouraged to go bald gracefully
Julian Barth Consultant in chemical pathology and metabolic medicine, Leeds General Infirmary Balding is not a disease. It is a normal process that occurs in men and women with the onset of puberty...
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Mature hit by loss of grants
The abolition of maintenance grants has probably had an adverse impact on mature students and those from poorer social groups, according to evidence from the Standing Conference of Principals to the...
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Drug firms' merger raises R&D hopes
The merger of Glaxo Wellcome and SmithKline Beecham to form the world's largest pharmaceutical business may not threaten United Kingdom research, as some politicians and trade unionists have...
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Oxbridge tops table in student success
Students at the University of Cambridge have come top of a league table of achievement, with 87 per cent of full-time students achieving a first or upper-second class degree in 1997-98. At the...
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IVF pioneer accused of hatching other eggs for profit
In vitro fertilisation pioneer Simon Fishel was accused in the High Court this week of "in effect running a private practice" for his own profit while he was a full-time employee of Nottingham...
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AUT lays blame for low pay at v-cs' door
Lecturers in the old universities have blamed institutions for low staff pay, saying the government has almost met funding targets. Submitting a pay claim for a 30 per cent salary rise over the next...
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Certificates for the Institute for Learning and Teaching awarded by by Sally Brown
(Photograph) - Sally's army: about 30 staff at the University of North London were presented en masse with certificates for the Institute for Learning and Teaching by Sally Brown, director of...
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Post-16 bill muddies waters
The future is far from certain for colleges under the proposed reform of post-16 education, college leaders have warned. The Learning and Skills Bill, which had its second reading in the House of...
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College staff driven away by red tape
Bureaucracy is driving experienced staff from the college sector and damaging teaching quality, research by the Institute of Education suggests. The research, commissioned by lecturers' union Nathfe...
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Student places and funds top Northern Ireland Assembly agenda
Northern Ireland further and higher education minister Sean Farren is poised to set up a review of student finance. At the first formal question time in the Northern Ireland Assembly, Mr Farren said...
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SNP vetoes introduction of student fees
As uncertainty continues over the Scottish Executive's response to Cubie, the Scottish National Party has vetoed the prospect of any graduate contribution. John Swinney, shadow minister for...
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Quigley committee told tuition fee may lose students in Scotland
The Committee of Scottish Higher Education Principals has told the Quigley committee that the tuition fee anomaly may be losing Scottish higher education 1 per cent of its student population. And it...
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'Elitist' exam plan under fire
Universities and schools need to agree on an admissions policy for the reformed sixth-form curriculum before it is too late, sector leaders have urged. John Dunford, general secretary of the...
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Accountants defect as institute fails to get flexible
The professional body for accountants in England and Wales approved a new qualification for chartered accountant students last week - but failed to win support from top accountancy firms. The...