Unions demand 46 days' leave minimum
Scottish unions and management are poised for a crunch meeting on Wednesday in a bid to stave off potential disruption at seven institutions. The management at Scotland's five new universities, Queen...
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Team picked to save Earth from asteroids
Three experts have been appointed to a "near-earth object" task force to assess the potential danger to the earth from asteroid strikes, the government announced this week. The committee will be...
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Girls try harder to beat the boys, study shows
Girls outperform boys at GCSE level partly because they know they have to try harder to make the grade in the male-dominated workplace, according to new research. Becky Francis, at Greenwich...
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Graduates urged to shape own destinies
Northern Ireland's new graduates should set their sights on becoming entrepreneurs rather than bureaucrats, Robert Cormack, pro vice-chancellor of Queen's University Belfast, told a graduation...
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Student Loans Company errors scrutinised
Registrars and student finance officers are compiling lists of problems that universities have experienced with the Student Loans Company. Difficulties identified so far include errors being...
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Blair education target comes under fire
Shadow education secretary Theresa May today attacked Tony Blair's 50 per cent higher education target. Ms May, who was due to speak at the North of England Education Conference, said that the target...
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Universities transfer courses to improve
* Dundee's two universities have signed a "strategic realignment" agreement to transfer courses between them, backed by the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council. Five management and consumer...
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Inspectors find college 'overstated' strengths
Dunstable College has joined the growing ranks of failing colleges, with "less than satisfactory" inspection grades for management and quality control. The Bedfordshire college was also given the...
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Short degrees welcomed
University and college heads have welcomed news that the government is about to launch two-year "foundation degrees". Department for Education and Employment officials plan to publish a consultation...
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Researchers on hunt for myopic families
Cardiff University researchers are searching the United Kingdom for short-sighted families. They are looking for volunteers for a study that aims to identify genes that predispose children to develop...
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Graduate unemployment falls
Seven out of ten graduates found work immediately after completing their studies in 1998, according to the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service. Graduate unemployment fell from 13 per cent in...
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A genome balloon for bursting
Before we succumb to yet more millennial angst, it is worth pausing to debunk the grandiose media claims concerning Craig Venter's paper in Science about creating life in a test tube (Soapbox, THES,...
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Tariff trouble
I was surprised that from a sample of three you could justify a report criticising the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service tariff ("Staff reject tariff reforms", THES, December 17)....
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Getting back to nature-nurture
Educating Eve
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Four Horsemen ride into sunrise
The Apocalypse and the Shape of Things to Come