Class actor: Richard Wilson
(Photograph) - Class actor: Richard Wilson joined politicians, union leaders, teachers and students outside Parliament to celebrate the fifth anniversary of English FE colleges' incorporation....
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Welsh start lifelong journey
THE Welsh Office this week published its own consultation paper on lifelong learning, which includes a Pounds 1 million partnership between further and higher education. The broad thrust of the new...
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Demand swells for nursing graduates
Nursing must become a graduate-only profession if it is to attract applicants, university nursing departments said this week. The Council of Deans and Heads of Universities' Faculties of Nursing,...
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Electronic publishing shock ahead
More than 5,000 university libraries worldwide have united to warn that the cost of electronic access to information could jump by 40 per cent over that for print subscriptions within three years....
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In the dock: Winnie Parson
(Photograph) - In the dock: Winnie Parson, in the clothes she wore when she worked as a welder during world war two, with Jean Hicks, a third-year student at Plymouth University, who staged an...
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Transatlantic journal swap
ELECTRONIC back copies of nearly 50 research journals in 11 different subjects are now available to universities on subscription. The Joint Information Systems Committee of the United Kingdom higher...
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White roses sniff success
White Rose Research, a joint venture between three Yorkshire universities, is to become a limited company after securing more than Pounds 1.5 million in its first year. The consortium of Leeds,...
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How to parent a student
'It's OK, Mum. I'm only spending Pounds 5 on food.' Olga Wojtas talks to Scottish parents worried about funding their children through university STRATHCLYDE University has pioneered information...
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How to marry millions of data
Jim Wheelan reports on a joint project to collect useful information to improve estates management Higher education spent Pounds 2 billion on estates in 1995-96 - almost a fifth of total expenditure...
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New kids on the block
A modern architect's task is to blend hi-tech design with a motley collection of campus buildings, Jeremy Melvin writes Buildings at Oxford and Cambridge, such as the Radcliffe Camera and King's...
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Estates of the nation
Universities are hatching ambitious plans involving property disposals, relocations, new buildings and higher usage. Gordon Hood reports The 1990s have seen some of the most dynamic shifts to...
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What is it about a university that attracts a student? Three sixth formers describe campuses they have visited
Toni Berg, 18, is taking A-levels at Cadbury Sixth Form College in Birmingham. She has visited Glasgow University and is due to sample the University of Kent at Canterbury soon. Her favourite so far...
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Seven-year hitch to a caterer
Bournemouth University signed private contractors to run its canteen. Elaine Carlton reports on the results The centrepiece of the tour for any prospective student is not the library, lecture...
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Designs on a student's life
Peter Sandy looks at how fees and loans raise expectations of value-for money housing and services A lecturer friend complained about a student who not only had his mobile phone switched on during a...
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Poor relations south of Hadrian's Wall
Regional differences in funding may be affecting students' choices of where they study, argues Stephen Court LINKS between universities and their regions, including the "nation-regions" of Scotland,...