Fees threat to languages
The cost of tuition fees is threatening four-year language degrees at UK universities. From September, Exeter University will for the first time offer three-year language degrees as an alternative to...
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Morris tells Blair not to interfere
Former education secretary Estelle Morris has warned against government interference in education leadership and centralised target-setting without full consultation with the sector. Ms Morris told a...
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Bac plan is death knell for A levels
All existing school and college examinations would be swept away or "re-engineered" under a baccalaureate scheme proposed by academics at the Institute of Education. An English baccalaureate or...
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Science calls for help
Universities have a central role in staving off the impending skills crisis in science and technology, according to research this week from the Engineering and Technology Board. They must reach out...
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Handy book wins prize
Chris McManus, professor of psychology and medical education at University College London, has won the Aventis science writing prize for his book Right Hand, Left Hand. The junior category was won by...
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First female chairs
Oxford has appointed its first female professors of philosophy and theology. Dorothy Edgington, professor of philosophy at Birkbeck College, London, has been appointed to the Waynflete professorship...
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Welsh links to schools
An initiative to link disaffected communities and higher education in Wales was launched today by Welsh Assembly education minister Jane Davidson. First Campus will offer mentoring and learning...
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Correction
The Bioscience ImageBank is at http://bio.ltsn.ac.uk/imagebank , not at the address that was printed last week.
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Findings: Resolve gives good results
Students' good intentions to perform well in their degrees can sometimes come to nothing for reasons other than a packed social calendar, writes Natasha Gilbert. Researchers from the University of...
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Findings: Apes fingered in hand puzzle
UK scientists claim to have solved the puzzle of why more men than women tend to be left-handed. The answer, they say, is because our ancestors were that way, writes Natasha Gilbert. Richard Byrne...
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Defra scans hori*on for biosecurity risk
The government is commissioning a new research programme aimed at preventing epidemics such as foot-and-mouth disease. The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs expects to announce...
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High-fliers grounded by low-tech facilities
Conservatism towards learning technologies in universities is blighting the prospects of brighter and more technically minded students, according to a report out this week. In Higher Education: Lower...
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EPSRC head says team up on rivals
Scientists and engineers must work with academics in other fields if the UK is to compete with research in countries such as the US, writes Anna Fazackerley. Randal Richards, who will take up his...
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Watchdog attacks quality plan
The government's red-tape watchdog has attacked funding chiefs' plans for a set of minimum standards designed to boost the quality of postgraduate research. In a letter to the Higher Education...
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Students give their seal of approval
Staff in Scotland's colleges and universities may feel increasingly beleaguered by work pressures and dwindling funds but for their students things are getting better, writes Olga Wojtas. A student...