Oxford shadows
While Labour deploys 1960s radicals gone straight - Tessa Blackstone and Kim Howells - on the government benches, the Conservatives are hitting back with the Oxford generation of a decade later. The...
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Review inertia
Notable for its absence is the government's response to the House of Commons' Science and Technology Committee's report on the implications of the Dearing inquiry for university research. Due by June...
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Cambridge fight
Readers may recall (Antithesis, May 22) the edifying spectacle of top Cambridge University academics attacking campaigning colleague Gill Evans in the public forum of a Senate House debate. The dons...
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Drama crisis
The great thing about a theatrical training is one can always turn a crisis into a drama. Stormy correspondence about the recent loss of staff at Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama, has been...
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Union calls for industry bond
THE government's comprehensive spending review should set up a higher educaton bond to attract private money into universities, according to the Association of University Teachers. The AUT's 34-page...
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PFI cash cancelled out by cutbacks
MONEY brought in to the public sector through the Private Finance Initiative has been more than offset by deep cuts in public investment, according to a report by the Institute of Fiscal Studies....
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Views sought on RAE panels
A further consultation on the 2001 research assessment exercise will be sent to universities later this month. The Higher Education Funding Council for England is seeking views on how it can...
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Biomedical update
London, Oxford, Cambridge and Edinburgh produce the most biomedical papers in the country, but Belfast and Leicester are the areas where biomedical output is increasing the most rapidly, according to...
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Editor under fire for report
The University of Hull has become entangled in a censorship row surrounding an MA programme in security studies which has recruited a number of high ranking Indonesian army officials. Concerns about...
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'Whistleblower' is backed by MPs
The National Audit Office has been called on to withdraw a "misleading" report into the fraud scandal at Portsmouth University which saw the departure of two whistleblowers. John Pickering, former...
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Research funding system attacked
A British Medical Association meeting this week heard that the funding council's research assessment exercise is "unscientific, misleading" and "pernicious". Gareth Williams, professor of medicine at...
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Quality:how it all fits together
In its response to the Dearing and Garrick reports, the government set the Quality Assurance Agency the task of piecing together a new system for checking standards in higher education. In March, the...
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Warden with a history
FEW recent head of institution appointments have occasioned more surprise than that of Ben Pimlott, professor of contemporary history and politics at Birkbeck College, London, as warden of Goldsmiths...
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Bible classes are barred
BLACK church leaders have condemned the Further Education Funding Council over moves to break up a national community partnership with Bilston Community College, which provides education for "...
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Ageing crisis threat to area studies
AREA studies expertise in British universities faces a demographic crisis in spite of consistent warnings to government in recent years. A survey by the Coordinating Council for Area Studies...