Estates of the nation
Universities are hatching ambitious plans involving property disposals, relocations, new buildings and higher usage. Gordon Hood reports The 1990s have seen some of the most dynamic shifts to...
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What is it about a university that attracts a student? Three sixth formers describe campuses they have visited
Toni Berg, 18, is taking A-levels at Cadbury Sixth Form College in Birmingham. She has visited Glasgow University and is due to sample the University of Kent at Canterbury soon. Her favourite so far...
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Seven-year hitch to a caterer
Bournemouth University signed private contractors to run its canteen. Elaine Carlton reports on the results The centrepiece of the tour for any prospective student is not the library, lecture...
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Designs on a student's life
Peter Sandy looks at how fees and loans raise expectations of value-for money housing and services A lecturer friend complained about a student who not only had his mobile phone switched on during a...
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Poor relations south of Hadrian's Wall
Regional differences in funding may be affecting students' choices of where they study, argues Stephen Court LINKS between universities and their regions, including the "nation-regions" of Scotland,...
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Don's Diary
Monday Up early in a cold sweat. Today's the day Angel FM goes on air, broadcasting my students' work live to north London. They've had endless lessons in how not to commit libel, and strict...
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Far right spreads racism in France
Since the 1980s France has undergone a number of changes that have triggered a major identity crisis. On the one hand, unemployment and the inability of the state to deal with it; on the other, the...
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The fixed-term licence for bullies
Fixed-term contracts have been part of the university system for decades. Properly used they will always have a place. Unfortunately, universities are no longer the experts on fixed-term contracts....
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Swansea's flowerpot men
Everything in the university garden is still rosy, says Ted Nield. Shame about the rest of the estate Some of the happiest moments of my undergraduate life that were not spent in the Victoria Arms...
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That taste for luxury
Well-heeled executives are feeding the coffers of Britain's booming business schools. Francis Beckett investigates The rest of higher education may be feeling the pinch, but business schools are...
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Cash to support Asian students
The government and the British Council have announced details of a one-year scholarship scheme to support students affected by the Asia currency crisis. Universities and colleges have been given...
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European Union's Erasmus/Socrates project
Students who study a full year in Europe under the European Union's Erasmus/Socrates project will be spared tuition fees for that year, education minister Baroness Blackstone confirmed this week. She...
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Turkey shoots for lower UK fees
AMID Turkish anger at being rebuffed by the European Union, the country's university authority, YOK, is negotiating with United Kingdom universities to cut fees for Turkish students. Kemal Guruz, YOK...
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Turkey's military call for legal restrictions to halt studying in Islamic countries
Turkey's military this week called for legal restrictions to halt Turkish students studying in Islamic countries. The demand follows YOK's decision late last year to stop recognising degrees awarded...
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UFI to get few public funds
The government will fund less than half of the start-up costs of its flagship University for Industry, ministers confirmed this week. And question marks remain over its long-term funding. Launching...