Don's Diary
Sunday I am in Slovenia on a British Council sponsored teaching week. My mission, to lecture to students at the University of Ljubljana on British cultural history, literature and popular culture. On...
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Northern nostalgia for school dinners
LIKE most politicians, I am a very emotional person. I say this not because I am innately soppy. Indeed, any product of Lancashire County Council school meals in the 1960s is made of strong stuff. If...
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White paper hints at car parking levy
USERS of university or college car parks may face a new charge as a result of the transport white paper. While business premises will be targeted, a Department of Transport spokesman said other urban...
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Clampdown on RAE
THE higher education funding councils are to crack down on manipulation of the research assessment exercise by institutes that have identified how to optimise their research ratings. However there...
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RAE consultation has spawned two more consultations for health related research
The RAE consultation has spawned two more consultations for health-related research. Colin Smith, who chairs the British Medical Association's medical academic staff committee, has said that an...
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Scientists launch meteorite search
Copenhagen University scientists are leading a Danish expedition in Greenland to search for fragments of a meteorite that crashed to the ground last December and which could help solve some mysteries...
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Ofsted report attacks 'sloppy' research
Education research in the United Kingdom is "disturbingly sloppy and partisan" and the Pounds 70 million of public money it costs could be put to better use with a huge rationalisation of research...
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Colour scheme
(Photograph) - Colour scheme: Peter Vukusic is part of a team at Exeter University that has been awarded Pounds 250,000 to investigate how the iridescent colours of butterflies' wings are formed and...
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Shop steward training
THE University of North London and the South East and East Anglia branches of the T&G trade union have launched an educational partnership, designed to strengthen shop steward training and give...
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Redundancy reprieve
SENIOR managers at the University of East London have agreed to lift threats of compulsory redundancy for three academics following negotiations with lecturers' union Natfhe.
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Get wired
(Photograph) - Get wired: Doncaster College student Elaine Grey revamps a computer as part of a scheme to help schools use PCs donated by local firms Photograph by STEVE DOHERTY
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Fact file
The Higher Education Statistics Agency's findings for 1996-97 reveal that: * 23 per cent were studying part-time undergraduate courses * 13 per cent were studying part-time postgraduate courses * 64...
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Student complaints soar
AN OVERWHELMING majority of universities are facing soaring student complaints, according to a new survey. The results, to be published next week, found the three most common areas of contention were...
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ESRC boosts PhD numbers
The Economic and Social Research Council will allocate an extra 90 awards this year. Every subject area will probably get an increased number of PhDs. An extra Pounds 450,000 for the studentships has...
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Doctors and nurses
AN EXTRA 6,000 nurse training places and more undergraduate doctor training places in medical schools were announced by Frank Dobson, health minister, last week as part of the comprehensive spending...