Colleges lose out on New Deal students
Colleges are being short-changed under the government's New Deal scheme for the unemployed. Further education colleges receive about Pounds 2,300 for educating a New Deal student from the Employment...
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List to fight African looting
The International Council for Museums has issued a "Red List" of archaeological items being looted on a large scale from Africa and sold on to museums, art dealers and auction houses in Europe and...
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Science projects suffer in squeeze
Strategic research by the British Geological Survey has suffered from a combination of government short-termism, the focused demands of commercial contracts and a long, gradual squeeze on science...
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Study finds grants critical for African refugee success
Do Study Grants Help Refugees Find Jobs? The Education, Training and Employment of African Refugees in Britain. Available from Africa Education Trust, 38 King Street, London WC2 8JS. African refugee...
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Visitors may have outstayed welcome
Quality chiefs have called on the government to reform universities' constitutions to guarantee students access to more rigorous and independent procedures for handling complaints and appeals. The...
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College fish get water on tap
Fish living at Swansea University's school of biological sciences are just yards from the Bristol Channel but they have to have sea water delivered by tanker twice a year. However, starting later...
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Mixed review for record funding package
The Scottish Further Education Funding Council has received a mixed response to its first allocations to Scotland's 47 further education colleges. The Association of Scottish Colleges praised the 8...
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Don's diary
Monday 6am flight from Glasgow to London. Arrive early. By 9am I am watching a band drilling in the crisp, bright air at Horse Guards Parade. Retreat into the Royal Society for the Aventis science...
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A game of three terms
At the end of the day, the delights of the Northeast and the prospect of studying at one of its seats of learning may not be enough for prospective MA students from Indonesia. So, along with the...
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Returns to Oxbridge
Just months after its arrival in power, Labour was threatening to slash Oxbridge college fees and muttering about the unfairness of institutions with richer-than-average alumni. Now, as Oxford has...
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A serious honour
After her ordeal at the hands of an alleged stalker last week, Germaine Greer will perhaps find comfort in the fact that she is the only academic to appear in a list of "women we admire most"...
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In the news
Describing Labour's selection procedure to choose its candidate for London mayor, Tony Travers, director of the Greater London Group at the London School of Economics, said it was "messy and...
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On the move
Chris Ham, director of the health services management centre at Birmingham University, is joining a new strategy unit set up to advise ministers on the future direction of the National Health Service...
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Glittering prizes
The English Association today inaugurates the Fellowship of the English Association, honouring service to English in education.Founding fellows: Eric Anderson, Lincoln College, Oxford; Malcom Andrew...
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Eyewitness
London's new mayor will be able to look to a variety of European cities as he considers his approach to the post. One obvious example is Italy, which opted for directly-elected mayors in 1993. Simon...