Selection correction
Oxbridge selectors tend to choose 'people like us'. The process should be reformed, says Harold Perkin The row over Brasenose College, Oxford rejecting Anastasia Fedotova, a deaf candidate with six A...
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Why I...believe that there are limits on what universities can do to deal with disability
Criticism of Oxford's failure to admit a well-qualified deaf student has highlighted how careful universities have to be in dealing with the increasing number of applicants with disabilities. The...
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African murder stuns academics
Zimbabwe's academic community has been stunned by the axe murder of a British lecturer who was attacked at his home near Bulawayo and buried in a shallow grave. Jerzy "Jed" Toloczko, 51, had just...
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Art students flounder after school axes places
A dozen art students found their futures on hold after the degree places they had confirmed almost four months ago were cancelled weeks before their course was due to begin. The students had accepted...
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Courses face cut in maths collapse
The dramatic decline in the number of students sitting A-level maths has plunged already struggling university maths departments further into crisis. With almost 20 per cent fewer maths entries at A...
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Horses for courses, trainers advised
Having a horse first past the post is not the ultimate goal of most racehorse owners. Many more are interested in the social cachet the sport of kings bestows, according to researchers at London...
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Grade A glut puts Oxford in tight spot
Examinations and university admissions processes need to be overhauled to cope with a glut of top A levels, a senior Oxford academic at the centre of a row over the rejection of a deaf candidate with...
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Today's news
Fewer English students venture over the border Universities in Scotland are attracting fewer students from south of the border, according to the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service yesterday...
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Teaching 'licence' for all new lecturers by 2010
All new lecturers will be expected to have a teaching qualification by 2010. That is the message from the Cooke review into teaching-quality enhancement. This will require recruits to take teacher-...
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Ian Diamond to take over top spot at ESRC
* Ian Diamond, deputy vice-chancellor of Southampton University, is to take over as chief executive of the Economic and Social Research Council. He will succeed Gordon Marshall, who steps down next...
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Information technology to make quantum leap
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council has appointed Andrew Briggs, professor of materials at Oxford University, director of a research centre that could revolutionise the way...
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Students urged to curb boozing binges
The National Union of Students has teamed up with alcohol industry body the Portman Group to launch an anti-binge drinking campaign. Research by the group has shown that more than 1 million 18 to 24-...
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Environmental health pushes up profile
A drive to encourage more people to pursue environmental health at degree level has been launched in a bid to reverse a sharp drop in the numbers training to enter the profession. The Chartered...
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Aberdeen honours Gaelic guru Gillies
Norman Gillies, director of Scotland's only Gaelic college, has been appointed to an honorary chair in contemporary Highland studies at Aberdeen University. Dr Gillies has been a key figure in the...
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Physics enjoys revival of interest from pupils
The Institute of Physics has welcomed the end to a decade of year-on-year declines in the number of students sitting physics A and AS levels. The number has gone up from 63,955 in 2001 to 70,539 in...