Teletubby boycott
As Edinburgh's tenth international science festival gets under way tomorrow, Napier University is highlighting a debate on developments in biotechnology, between Kenneth Boyd of Edinburgh Royal...
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Jackboot in waiting
Alumnus to be proud of number 167 may sound like Georges Simenon's most famous creation, but has a rather more sinister significance in France. Bruno Megret, second in command of the French National...
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Blair splashes Pounds 30m on year 2000 bug busters
Prime Minister Tony Blair has unveiled plans to provide Pounds 30 million to train 20,000 people to tackle the potentially catastrophic "millennium bug", writes Phil Baty. Experts have warned that...
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Sixth-form parity plans in offing
Proposals for common funding arrangements for all education and training for 16 to 19-year-olds will go to ministers next month, as pressure mounts to close the funding gap between further education...
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Incorporation spells job cuts
A Northern Ireland college is facing job losses as incorporation finally dawned in the province this week. From Wednesday - "appropriately, April Fools' Day", one union official said - the 17 further...
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Class actor: Richard Wilson
(Photograph) - Class actor: Richard Wilson joined politicians, union leaders, teachers and students outside Parliament to celebrate the fifth anniversary of English FE colleges' incorporation....
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Welsh start lifelong journey
THE Welsh Office this week published its own consultation paper on lifelong learning, which includes a Pounds 1 million partnership between further and higher education. The broad thrust of the new...
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Demand swells for nursing graduates
Nursing must become a graduate-only profession if it is to attract applicants, university nursing departments said this week. The Council of Deans and Heads of Universities' Faculties of Nursing,...
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Electronic publishing shock ahead
More than 5,000 university libraries worldwide have united to warn that the cost of electronic access to information could jump by 40 per cent over that for print subscriptions within three years....
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In the dock: Winnie Parson
(Photograph) - In the dock: Winnie Parson, in the clothes she wore when she worked as a welder during world war two, with Jean Hicks, a third-year student at Plymouth University, who staged an...
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Transatlantic journal swap
ELECTRONIC back copies of nearly 50 research journals in 11 different subjects are now available to universities on subscription. The Joint Information Systems Committee of the United Kingdom higher...
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White roses sniff success
White Rose Research, a joint venture between three Yorkshire universities, is to become a limited company after securing more than Pounds 1.5 million in its first year. The consortium of Leeds,...
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How to parent a student
'It's OK, Mum. I'm only spending Pounds 5 on food.' Olga Wojtas talks to Scottish parents worried about funding their children through university STRATHCLYDE University has pioneered information...
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How to marry millions of data
Jim Wheelan reports on a joint project to collect useful information to improve estates management Higher education spent Pounds 2 billion on estates in 1995-96 - almost a fifth of total expenditure...
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New kids on the block
A modern architect's task is to blend hi-tech design with a motley collection of campus buildings, Jeremy Melvin writes Buildings at Oxford and Cambridge, such as the Radcliffe Camera and King's...