Cutting it in the fashion world
Take a risk. Should fashion students be taught to take risks in business or to play it safe? After London Fashion Week Wendy Dagworthy advocates being extraordinary, while Angela McRobbie counsels...
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Eye of the beholder
“Hard-nosed publisher” Stuart Hay recently commissioned a monograph from me, although I am an unknown author. Like Hay, I’m puzzled about Valentine Cunningham’s withering view of publishers (THES,...
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Artists likely to go it alone
Art and design graduates are up to five times more likely to be self-employed than graduates of many other major disciplines, according to latest figures on students destinations from the Higher...
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NFTS team sails into Oscars
A team of National Film and Television School graduates is hoping for a bit of luck after receiving its third Oscar nomination for best animated film, with Jolly Roger, having lost out on the award...
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UCAS drops applications bulletin after press leak
The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service came under fire this week after it cancelled an institutional applications bulletin following leaks to the press. Vice-chancellors and senior managers...
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AUT gets ready to strike
Executive members of the Association of University Teachers will draw up a detailed timetable of industrial disputes today to prepare for immediate action should pay negotiations fail. They are due...
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University of North London talks
* Managers and unions at the University of North London held seven hours of talks this week, with more planned, as an academic boycott of the university over new contracts began to bite. External...
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Split 'no' vote lets Cambridge go ahead with secret pay rises
Controversial plans to give the vice-chancellor at Cambridge University personal discretionary powers to award selected professors secret salary enhancements of up to Pounds 20,000 will go ahead...
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Grants rise to add more places
Scottish secretary Donald Dewar has hailed this week's announcement of grants to Scottish further education colleges as "nothing short of a funding revolution". This is the last direct Scottish...
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FEFC funding may slow expansion
Expansion drives by entrepreneurial colleges will be scuppered under "mechanistic" college funding plans, despite the government's call for an extra 700,000 students, college leaders have warned,...
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Poaching colleges under fire
Colleges are to be named and shamed for poaching students from outside their local areas as part of a drive to encourage local provision. Tables to be published soon by the Further Education Funding...
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Kingston loses school of physics
Kingston University is the latest institution to close its physics department. Last week the university announced that its school of applied physics would close completely in two year's time. Staff...
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Take-up down in engineering
Take-up of places on engineering and technology courses dropped by more than 7 per cent in 1998 compared with an overall decline of 2 per cent across the higher education sector, according to the...
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Institution of Chemical Engineers study
* In a recent House of Commons debate, chemical engineer and Labour MP Ashok Kumar referred to a study by the Institution of Chemical Engineers that showed that over the past 13 years, out of 1,500...
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'Dark' investments
A British experiment to detect the mysterious "dark" matter that pervades the universe gained another four year's funding this week. The other big winner was a space mission to study the earliest...