Don's Diary
Monday Our second examination week, so we will expect a fair few panicking students in the counselling service where I work. We are all aware of this, and will be looking out for them despite heavy...
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Channel to wider horizons
When I graduated from University College London in 1959, virtually the only non-British students I had met were from the Commonwealth and North America, and it was mostly to the latter that we went...
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It makes you want to turn off your bleeper
The modern political journalist does not need an electronic message bleeper to be told what to think and write. He or she simply regurgitates the last article on the chosen subject. After several...
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Appointments
Public Management and Policy Association. Michael Bichard, permanent secretary at the Department for Education and Employment has been appointed chair of the policy board by the association; the vice...
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Awards
Scientific Committee of the European Amalfi Prize. The committee for sociology and social sciences has awarded the Amalfi Prize to Martin Albrow, professor in the school of sociology and social...
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"Fox" 1998 by Kelly Bushell
(Photograph) - "Fox" 1998 by Kelly Bushell, a third-year BA printmaking student in Brighton. She explains: "The work consists of computer prints which are made up of a combination of drawings and...
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Quality crisis in electronics
Engineering graduates with the skills to design tomorrow's mobile phones and digital televisions can walk straight into well-paid jobs. But university electronic engineering departments are finding...
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Fact file
Findings from the Higher Education Statistics Agency for 1996-97 reveal that: * 122 institutions reported a surplus in 1997 compared with 116 in 1996 * 59 institutions reported a deficit in 1997...
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Experience sans frontires
EUROPEAN ministers have announced the launch of a "training passport" that will allow young people to have work experience recorded throughout the European Union.
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A brave new green world
New universities are pioneering the use of environmental policies. Julia Hinde reports "Sustainable development is very much a mainstream higher education issue", Scottish education minister Brian...
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No beggar's banquet
Alumnus to be proud of No 176 is tax expert Mick Jagger. Proof at last that the old boy learnt something from that truncated spell at the London School of Economics.
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Call for fair deal on rent deposits
STUDENT leaders have backed calls from the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux for a fairer deal on rent deposits, following its study into abuses by landlords withholding them.
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Changes to the bill
Lords to renew fight against teaching bill The Liberal Democrats say there have been 197 government changes to the Teaching and Higher Education Bill since its introduction. More were made this week...
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Forward planning
The Millennium Bug appears to have hit Wales early. Heads of institutions in the principality have received a consultation paper on audit codes of practice dated June 2, 2098, which makes the...
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Pilot sold `degrees' for Pounds 318 each
A PILOT has been convicted of selling bogus degrees for the "University of Yorkshire" from his spare room. He charged Pounds 318 for degree courses and an extra Pounds 54 for honours, Harrogate...