Honorary degrees
Leicester University DMus: The Lindsay string quartet: Peter Cropper, Ronald Birks, Robin Ireland and Bernard Gregor-Smith. DLitt: John Sutherland, Lord Northcliffe professor of modern English...
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Fees fail to curb rush for places
TUITION fees have failed to deter people from higher education as the rush for places goes on, according to the admissions service. Figures released this week show the number of people withdrawing...
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Top marks for A-level science students
Science students gained more top grades in this year's A levels than in 1997. And the proportion of students taking science subjects was also slightly up on the previous year, writes Alison Goddard...
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Graduates rejecting teaching
A recruitment crisis is looming in teacher training, hitting both undergraduate and postgraduate courses, it emerged this week. Experts predict the biggest drop for a decade in places filled on Post...
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Admissions process reviewed
UNIVERSITIES will be consulted later this year on proposals to change the admissions process and do away with the present system of conditional offers, writes Alan Thomson. The proposals involve...
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Routes to a knowledge industry
Universities must promote links between subjects and with industry if they are to nourish modern society, argues Werner Hirsch. THE modern world, for all its sophistication, still has difficulty...
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Examination board row over missing A-level papers
An examination board at the centre of worries over computer failures was this week rowing about missing A-Level papers. Twenty-one Bodmin Community College pupils in Cornwall gained unclassified...
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Minister warns Scot principals
Helen Liddell, Scotland's new education minister, has introduced herself to the Committee of Scottish Higher Education Principals with a broadside against institutions charging students for tuition...
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Bullied staff given counselling
Free counselling by clinical psychologists is being offered to staff at Anglia Polytechnic University, in the wake of a survey that found bullying and intimidation are a serious problem at the...
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Payback time
Vice-chancellors looking forward to an extra little something in their pay packets in the new academic year are advised to start noting down all those late nights wrestling with the annual report,...
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Di-ology: Year one
Stage one:Shock September 1997 Nottingham Trent University produced figures estimating that 30 per cent of Britons were as shocked by Diana's death as they would have been by the outbreak of war....
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Temple of Diana
Elaine Showalter joined the pilgrimage to Diana's grave at Althorp, where the Spencer family has reclaimed the princess as one of its own. I was in the United States when Princess Diana was killed...
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You are what you eat
Food can define a national identity. Shannon Peckham offers a taste of some of the historical ingredients that shaped our character The destiny of nations," wrote the philosopher of gastronomy...
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Roaming in the graves of academe
In life she was chased by the paparazzi and hounded by the media. In death academia is picking over her bones. Kate Worsley reports on the growth of Di-ology. Whatever happened to that cocktail of...
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Lights, camera, learning
Stephen Bayly is fighting to keep the UK's film school at the cutting edge. Kam Patel reports. Stephen Bayly has gone back to school. Only this time he has gone back to run it. Inevitably much has...