Oxbridge eyes deal on access
OXFORD and Cambridge universities may enter a gentlemen's agreement to increase their numbers of state school students as a condition of keeping part of the Pounds 35 million subsidy for college fees...
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Euro award
Middlesex University MA students Amanda Clarke, Tania Hurst and Flora Pereira won second prize in the further and higher education category of the EC Multimedia Awards for Choke, a combined CD-Rom...
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Deadlock
(Photograph) - A mock funeral was one of several events staged last week by students across the country protesting against government plans to levy tuition fees. In Bristol, students marched from the...
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Bullies give birth
A rare insight into the weird and wonderful word of bullying in university law departments came from the Birmingham Industrial Tribunal this week. Justifying its award of record damages to Manchester...
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Leader in a pickle
Student union members worried about their national president, Douglas Trainer's, lack of commitment to the NUS's official policy of an outright rejection of government plans for student tuition fees...
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Northern attraction
Oxford University is to go on the warpath next summer in its determination to recruit state school applicants other campaigns haven't reached. Existing students will set off next summer in a battle...
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Report in waiting
Sir Ron Dearing's report is out, the higher education bill has been published, the fuss over Oxbridge college fees is reaching its climax. So whatever happened to the North report? Peter North's...
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Five-year survival plan
Paul Mackney starts work today as general secretary of Natfhe aware that the lecturers' union changes leaders as often as football clubs change managers. Natfhe has had five general secretaries in 28...
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Tough nut
President Cardoso of Brazil, who received an honorary degree at the LSE on Wednesday, revealed the astonishing versatility of sociologists. Seems that when he fled Brazil's military regime he spent...
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Lost to a rival
Alumnus to be proud of No 151 might better be titled Alumnus Gone Missing. Despite our efforts to help it earlier in the year (Antithesis, July 4), Corpus Christi College, Oxford is still, in the...
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Manchester rebuked in race case
It is a "matter of sadness and shame" that Manchester University "failed dismally" to follow equal opportunities procedures in its handling of the seven-year race discrimination dispute with law...
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Standards police test powers
SCOTLAND and Wales are to be the test beds for higher education's new system for policing academic standards, the Quality Assurance Agency has announced. Minimum "threshold" standards in history,...
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Good vibrations
(Photograph) - Douglas Johnston, head of music, and producer Graham McMillan (back) celebrate University Radio York's return to the airwaves after closing last summer because of campus redevelopment...
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US signs CERN deal
UNITED States and European officials this week signed an historic agreement bringing $531 million to the world's largest particle-smashing experiment based in Geneva. It is the first such agreement...
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Toy story
A PARTNERSHIP between Brunel University and a toy manufacturer has won this year's prize for the best Teaching Company Scheme programme which is funded by 11 public sector bodies to improve the...