Pounds 32.5m for Cambridge
British Petroleum and Unilever this week announced funding worth Pounds 32.5 million for research at the University of Cambridge, writes Kam Patel. Unilever is giving Pounds 13 million over five...
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Glasgow miss
The government is facing more of an uphill battle than it realised in its hope of establishing greater regionalism. A Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals' regional seminar on widening access...
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London hiss
Perhaps the CVCP would have benefited from hearing David Bleiman, assistant general secretary of the Association of University Teachers, speak on St George's Day at the Scottish Trades Union Congress...
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Submission surrender
THE government's commitment to inclusive politics may have backfired by over choking the further and higher education sectors on inquiries and consultations. Evidence that the sectors may be...
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Speed trap
Any students nicked for speeding in Swansea can plausibly try blaming their institutions for putting ideas in their heads. No sooner does Swansea Institute of Higher Education decide to put a...
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Methodist acting
Members of the Higher Education Funding Council for England who have found their new chairman, Sir Michael Checkland, strangely elusive since his appointment last autumn, learned why at their recent...
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Quiz show
Your starter for ten: what would be the ideal apr s-conference entertainment for an event chock-a-block with boffins? A university challenge, of course. Competition is bound to be intense at the...
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Liberation front
Alumnus to be proud of No 171 showed this week that the more assertively confident form displayed recently in his job possibly came from the sense of liberation attached to knowing you will shortly...
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Learn while you work
Leeds Metropolitan University is offering students the chance to gain qualifications from sub-degree up to doctorate level without ever attending a lecture, writing an essay or sitting an exam. In...
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BAe, academe fly into future
British Aerospace has committed itself to a Pounds 2 billion investment programme over the next decade to fund a "radically new approach" to education, technology, training and research. At the heart...
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Corporate 'ruin' threat
Business Schools face potential ruin as "corporate universities" poach academics on individual contracts and shun institutions, the Association of Business Schools has warned. Speaking to The THES...
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Parents alarmed at suicide risk
EXAM time is almost upon us, bringing with it the sleepless nights long associated with cramming. Yet academic pressure is only one of the difficulties students face at university and college....
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Stress on a scale of 1 to 10
STUDENTS from Leeds Metropolitan University seem a happy bunch but dig deeper and many feel stressed about the forthcoming examinations. Steve Hale rates his stress on a scale of one to ten as eight...
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Science waits on the cash
THES reporters assess the impact of Labour's first year of government on higher and further education and unravel how they have sold their policies to the country A year after taking office, Labour...
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Lowdown on a shy spin doctor who crossed the Irish Sea and chose to stay
THES reporters assess the impact of Labour's first year of government on higher and further education and unravel how they have sold their policies to the country BACK WHEN Ireland's economy was less...