Abi Duncan O'Meara
Abi Duncan O'Meara, featured last week on page 3 of The THES, "Younger students opt to go part-time", came to London after she had matriculated, aged 18, not 16 as stated.
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DTI urged to promote Britisheducation
The Department of Trade and Industry is thinking of taking a new role in promoting higher education. Michael Wills (below), a junior minister in the DTI, promised to look into the issue at a...
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Don's Diary
Thursday Today sees the launch of TV Living, a book based on a study funded by the British Film Institute that takes a long, hard look at the UK television audience. The BFI has booked a lunchtime...
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Graduates slam elite teaching as 'outdated'
Paris The most recent graduates of the Ecole Nationale d'Administration have written an open letter to French prime minister Lionel Jospin, criticising the prestigious college for its outdated...
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Uproar in Italy over cut-down philosophy
Rome Italy's philosophers are up in arms over plans to close faculties of lettere e filosofia and include scaled-down teaching of philosophy, with other subjects, on shorter humanities courses. Many...
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Newby promises tough stance
Vice-chancellors have ushered in an era of bold university reform with the election of a new chairman committed to modernising the sector. Howard Newby, vice-chancellor of Southampton University and...
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A visionary in the CVCP chair
Described even by union leaders at his own university as a "personable visionary" and a "political realist", Howard Newby's appointment as the CVCP's next chairman may signal vice-chancellors'...
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Social work on the frontline
Tirana Tal Gashi, 21, was in his third year studying electro-engineering, computing and telecommunications at Pristina University when war broke out in Kosovo. He had just been accepted to complete...
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'Freedom fighters' university struggles to survive
Durban Radical action is afoot to try to rescue a South African university that produced many black leaders in the struggle against apartheid. Financial disaster and closure of the University of Fort...
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Graduate incomes up but debtors increase
Graduate earnings seem to be improving so that more graduates are paying off their student loan debts. The Student Loans Company said that the proportion deferring their loan repayments fell from 48...
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Government U-turn on disabled grants
The government has restored full access to disabled student allowances for the over 50s after an earlier decision to limit eligibility angered disability groups. Education minister Baroness...
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New procedure for gripes about HEFCE
Universities and colleges with gripes against the Higher Education Funding Council for England now have a new way to settle them. HEFCE has established a procedure that sets out how institutions can...
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Encouraging response to business reach out
Universities and colleges have welcomed proposals for a higher education reach out to business and the community fund, following a consultation by the Higher Education Funding Council for England....
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Further boost to PhD stipends considered
The need to further increase stipends for PhDs students was expected to be discussed at a joint meeting of the heads of the research councils this week. Also likely to be discussed were changes to...
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Dolly technology sold for Pounds 20 million to US
This week's sale of the technology behind Dolly, the first cloned sheep, to an American biotech company should bring more than Pounds 20 million to the institute where she was born, it is estimated....