Skills gap requires 'hard choices'
Shorter degree courses, closer contact with potential employers and lifelong learning schemes will all help cut the skills shortage in electronic engineering. These were among suggestions made by...
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The Shell Technology Enterprise Programme
The Shell Technology Enterprise Programme has launched a £1.4 million initiative with the Department of Trade and Industry to get more graduates into careers in electronic...
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MPs strive for a united front
The Commons' report on higher education will have to pull together a broad spectrum of opinion, says Claire Sanders The 11 members of the House of Commons select committee inquiring into higher...
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Kingston loses tribunal
Kingston University dismissed senior lecturer Agi Oldfield unfairly, giving her an ultimatum to "resign or be sacked" after she made informal complaints of harassment against her...
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Don's Diary
Thursday The site I founded in my gap year, InfoYouth, for 16 to 24-year-olds, is launching in just under a week. Under the auspices of Schoolsnet, it will provide information for students on...
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Glasgow students vote to kick out Kemp
Ross Kemp, the student-elected rector of Glasgow University, has been asked to resign because he did not give a freshers' week address for the second year running. Questioning his commitment to the...
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On the move
Members of the national council of the Learning and Skills Council, announced this week, are: Chris Banks, managing director of Coca-Cola Great Britain; Chris Humphries, director-general of the...
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Glittering prizes
Patrick Moore has been presented with a special Millennium Award in the form of a sundial by the Royal Astronomical Society , in recognition of his outstanding contribution to astronomy. The Globe...
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Knights are drawing in
Beady eyes were trying to identify who had purchased a new suit at a reception held this week by the Higher Education Funding Council for England. Today is the deadline for applications to succeed...
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Ministerial doubts
Nicol Stephen, Scotland's deputy minister for enterprise and lifelong learning, is obviously sceptical about collaboration between universities. Sir Alan Langlands, principal of Dundee University,...
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Cash-strapped history
Edinburgh University, which has just unveiled radical plans to combat dwindling government funding, is no stranger to financial privations. The foundation stone of its 18th-century Old College was...
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In the news
If 15 researchers take one day to process 1,000 questionnaires, how long before they reach a million? Four years and ten tons of paper, according to Valerie Beral , principal investigator of the...
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Wales Institute goes for economic growth
The Welsh Institute for Research into Cooperatives is being established at the University of Wales Institute. The institute aims to achieve sustainable economic growth in deprived areas. It will work...
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Plant rage may uproot experts
One in four senior scientists involved with genetically modified plants has considered quitting the United Kingdom because of perceived national feeling against the technology, according to a THES...
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Connexions launches to give youth guidance
A new guidance service for teenagers to be launched on Monday will encourage more people into further and higher education. The Connexions service for 13 to 19-year-olds integrates existing careers...