Job prospects are key to extra funds
Universities must demonstrate a good employment record for past students if they want to attract cash for more undergraduates. Funding chiefs are paying more attention to student employability in...
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Fee debtors tempted to pay
Students who have unpaid tuition fee debts from last year are either coughing up or just not trying to enrol for their second year. Press coverage coupled with warning letters have encouraged...
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Warwick offers Pounds 2,000
The University of Warwick is to offer scholarships following concern that the abolition of maintenance grants has deterred students from poorer backgrounds. Scholarships would aid the university to...
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Hull spy takes a year's break
Robin Pearson, the Hull University lecturer who spied for the East Germans for 12 years, has not shown up for the start of the new academic term. A university spokesman said that Dr Pearson was on...
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There are such things as societies
Professional societies are under threat from new technology. But, Harriet Swain says, they could turn a threat into an advantage In their early days, learned and professional societies could...
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In the news
Along with the rather dull recreations of music, running and reading he lists in Who's Who, Trevor Phillips includes "mischief". It is not a hobby automatically associated with the Blairite,...
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UK needs rebrand to exploit education
British further and higher education needs a new "brand image"according to an international survey. The sector needs to sell itself as modern, diverse, friendly and good value for money if it is to...
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Graduation day is a marketing machine
Graduation ceremonies are no longer just a celebration of success, they are the major marketing event of the year. And academics have a job to do. First they must sit on the platform and clap...
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Cubie takes broad view of student funding
Scotland's independent inquiry into student finance is to ask qualified young people who opted not to go into higher education why they made that decision. The inquiry, chaired by lawyer Andrew Cubie...
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Joint bodies reach uneasy truce over details of quality reporting framework
Disagreement still threatens the future of the new higher education quality assurance framework, with the Quality Assurance Agency agreeing to consult further on its plans to report teaching quality...
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Tea bags three prizes for bizarre research
Britain triumphed in the 1999 Ig Nobels, the spoof awards, with three prizewinners honoured for academic celebration of the national obsession with tea. The humorous science journal Annals of...
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Accra
The Ghanaian government closed Legon University after students protested against a tuition fees increase of about 500 per cent.
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Paris
Investigations into financial irregularities at France's biggest student social insurance society have revealed that Marie-France Lavarin, media adviser to education minister Claude Allegre, received...
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Sharp characters step up e-book campaign
Microsoft and Adobe are battling to establish a readable alternative to the printed book. Tony Durham reports Microsoft has revived interest in e-books - book-sized machines for reading electronic...
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Readers' reactions
Kumari Lane Reigate Last week in The THES... Jennie Bristow asked if university was the right place to educate gifted children. A university is an adult environment and it should provide an education...