Survey shows fees will be a deterrent
Almost two-thirds of students would would have chosen a different university if their first-choice institution had demanded tuition fees of £3,000, a survey revealed this week. The Unite Student...
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V-c says poor are put off by upfront burden but are not debt-averse
Labour MPs' fears that aversion to debt will deter children from poor families from going to university are groundless, according to Gordon Marshall, vice-chancellor of the University of Reading....
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Optimism is high, skill low
While most students are optimistic about their job prospects after graduation, few believe they have developed good business skills while at university, according to the Unite Student Living Report,...
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Do they deserve to be degrees?
The higher education bill has reheated the debate about non-traditional courses, Tony Tysome reports The government's plans to increase the number of student places, bring in top-up fees and relax...
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'Mickey Mouse? It left me feeling more than a little goofy'
The THES sent reporter Tony Tysome to Birmingham University to judge whether he thought the applied golf management degree was a Mickey Mouse course. This is how he found it. The materials science...
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Intellectual and practical: The study of swinging, singing, gaming and snipping
Applied golf management studies, Birmingham University Former bank manager Jonathan Wright is not the sort of man to take unnecessary risks, so when he decided to take a place on Birmingham's golf...
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'The students are not long-haired beach bums'
Surf science and technology, Plymouth University Marine studies lecturer Malcolm Findlay is fed up with politicians who take cheap shots at the degree he helped to create when they have not looked...
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New v-c at London Met
Brian Roper has been appointed vice-chancellor of London Metropolitan University, which was created by the merger of the University of North London and London Guildhall University in 2002. Mr Roper,...
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Bursaries for volunteers
Imperial College London will offer annual £1,500 bursaries to 20 student volunteers supporting pupils in local primary and secondary schools. The students will help teach subjects such as science,...
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Grilling for Sainsbury
Science minister Lord Sainsbury has agreed to subject himself to regular grillings by the influential Commons' science and technology committee. The committee announced the launch of a "science...
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Hospital body renamed
University hospitals have set up a body to represent themselves. The Association of UK University Hospitals will take over from the UK University Hospitals Forum, which has 37 members, and will hold...
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DNA pioneer honoured
Sir Alec Jeffreys, DNA genetic fingerprinting pioneer, is to be given an international accolade. Professor Jeffreys, who is the Royal Society Wolfson professor in the department of genetics at...
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Scientists' GM lobby
Over 150 scientists from 24 countries have signed a letter to Tony Blair in support of colleagues who complained that the GM debate had been mishandled. Signatories, including James Watson, co-...
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Rent row rocks royal societies
Five learned societies were this week locked in a High Court dispute with the government over whether they should pay rent on the historic London home they have occupied for over a century. With the...
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Wage battle rages on
Academic union leaders and university employers clashed again over pay scales and job evaluation schemes this week, threatening to scupper hopes of bringing the two sides back to the negotiating...