Rise in graduates heading for jobs...
Graduate unemployment has fallen again, according to figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency. Of 264,300 students who graduated in 1997, 62 per cent reported their first destination as...
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...but bosses report too few skilled recruits
Employers cannot find suitable graduates to fill their vacancies, according to the annual survey of graduate salaries and vacancies by the Association of Graduate Recruiters. This year 38 per cent of...
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Inspectors knock college management
Inspectors have criticised Ludlow College's management as "less than satisfactory". Among the criticisms by the Further Education Funding Council's inspectorate are: "weak" financial management, "...
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Law students to get multimedia instruction
COURT-ROOM dramas and reconstructions of real events will play a role in future courses run by the College of Law via a CD-Rom. The multimedia package will intersperse lectures with relevant cases...
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Royal colleges rally to defend position
The royal colleges of medicine launched a staunch defence of their position this week. The colleges, which look after the postgraduate training and qualifications of doctors, were under attack for...
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Gene check
(Photograph) - The first royalty payment for British sales of a genetically modified tomato puree has been made to the University of Nottingham. A cheque for a couple of thousand pounds - the...
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Quality threshold 'too low'
universities and colleges have warned quality watchdogs that they are in danger of "selling UK higher education short" with new definitions of standards. Attempts by the Quality Assurance Agency to...
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Research funding future in doubt
The government this week side-stepped the question of whether the dual support system will continue. In its response to a report from the Commons science and technology committee on the implications...
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Space station under attack
Space science is under threat from missions that take place for political rather than scientific reasons, according to a study of 13 joint US-European missions. To avoid failure, there must be a...
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Teaching gets graded
THE Teacher Training Agency and school inspection agency Ofsted have published proposals for monitoring teacher training standards from September. The key change is a cut in the number of areas...
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Business ideas get extra cash
Budding entrepreneurs in universities can bid for a slice of a Pounds 50 million government venture capital fund to help turn promising research into successful business. Science minister John Battle...
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New MA for work consultants
The successor to the work placement has arrived at Lancaster University, where postgraduates on a new arts course are offered to employers on a consultancy basis. John Wakeford, director of...
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Nottingham Trent University degree learning takes place in the work environment
In a similar initiative aimed at undergraduates, Nottingham Trent University has teamed up with Marks & Spencer, Reuters, Commercial Union and Tesco, among others, to devise a new degree in...
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First impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from an author whose inexact anagram was to become immortal: "My dear Mark, Today...
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The Balkans battle on
Between Serb and Albanian - Kosovo