Military boost to civilians
DEFENCE-related technologies will benefit civilian life over the next ten years, but civilian developments will pose military risks, according to the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency. Giving...
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Degree study at Yeovil via joint university plan
Students will be able to study for degrees at Yeovil College in a joint project by the universities of Bournemouth and Exeter. The Joint University Centre, which will open in September, will offer...
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AUT debates action at Leeds
The Association of University Teachers' executive committee met yesterday to discuss authorising a local ballot on strike action at Leeds University, where three philosophy lecturers who had been...
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Cambridge relents over review body
Cambridge University's governing council has agreed to a mediator's recommendation to form an independent body to review procedures for promoting academic staff. The council, which met this week, was...
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Oldham gets higher for 1999
Higher education is coming to Oldham, with a Pounds 3.5 million business school due to open in time for the September 1999 academic year. The venture, launched this week by Further Education Funding...
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MPs undo Lords' work
THE government has overturned key Lords' amendments in the Teaching and Higher Education Bill to protect its funding option and centralised powers. The main changes to the bill are: Part I, about the...
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Open sesame across the pond
The Open University is opening its doors for business in the United States with the creation of the "Open University of the United States". Sir John Daniel, vice-chancellor of the OU, said: "The new...
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European waiver plea
University European officers have urged peers to back fee waivers and grants for students on short visits to the Continent. Members of the Association of Higher Education European Officers have...
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De Montfort seals law deal
DE MONTFORT University has clinched a deal to take over Bristol University's legal practice course from September. The move will take the university a step nearer its ambition of rivalling the...
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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...