British Library plans free internet service
The British Library plans to launch a free dial-up internet service in two weeks. British Library Net will provide unlimited free access round the clock, seven days a week to all users in the United...
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Below the belt
Kegs are not a pair of trousers but the word kegs is used to refer to a part of the male anatomy. The slang for trousers is kecks or kecs. Paul Mudie Honours economics undergraduate Dundee University...
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Curtain on US 'sports students' farce rises
BOSTON American universities continue to be embarrassed by major scandals in their high-stakes athletic programmes, most recently at the University of Minnesota, where one humiliation has followed...
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Science loses out to Brit hype
British Council funding for science exchange visits is being cut back in favour of exhibitions and publicity campaigns deemed more "upbeat" by government think-tanks. The number of joint research...
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JRPs: a great British success story
JRPs are widely accepted as one of the success stories of British science funding. Over the ten years of the German programme, run in conjunction with the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, some...
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Built environment threatened
Built environment programmes in universities face a "grim" future, with applications plummeting and departmental closures on the cards, says a report by the Ove Arup Foundation. Student applications...
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More funds for more students next year
Universities and colleges will get about Pounds 0 million more in funding next year but will be expected to take on more students. Final grant figures for next year reveal that the Higher Education...
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Lib Dems raise heat on government policies
Liberal Democrats are to step up attacks on government further and higher education policy. Further and higher education spokesman Phil Willis will use next month's party conference to refocus on...
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NUS members back march against fees
Members of the National Union of Students have overwhelmingly backed calls for a national march and lobby of Parliament against tuition fees and student hardship. A ballot of all student unions on...
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State:private student ratio shifts at Oxford
State school students could this year outnumber those from private schools at Oxford University for the first time. Final figures for confirmed places have not yet been collated from the colleges....
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Ulster Unionists target university recruitment
The Ulster Unionist Party is to target the University of Ulster and Scottish universities in a recruitment drive following a decision by the UU student union to lift a 15-year ban on the formation of...
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Scots gain Pounds 8,000 a year from a degree
Scottish graduates win an annual Pounds 8,000 pay-off from their degrees, the Committee of Scottish Higher Education Principals has claimed. Its research, which will from part of its submission to...
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Scottish post-16 funding may get review
Post-16 students excluded from Scotland's independent inquiry into undergraduate and postgraduate finance may soon have their own review. Henry McLeish, Scotland's minister for enterprise and...
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New funds may rejoin lab rent apart by feud
Decades after intense personal rivalry between two eminent scientists physically divided Cambridge University's then-new chemistry laboratories, Joint Infrastructure Fund cash looks set finally to...
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Earning and learning in a land of opportunity
In the fifth of our summer series on education at the end of the century, Andrew Pakes says opportunities for learning are greater than ever Gone are the days when universities were the boarding...