Don's Diary
Monday A package arrives with material from the "What are Universities for?" conference, sponsored by Glaxo and The THES. I fight a rising wave of panic. Almost all the participants are vice...
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Danger in statutory controls
NEW ZEALAND's universities are not afraid of change. Through the 1990s, we adapted quickly to a completely different method of funding, a huge increase in the number of students, a sharp cut in...
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Strength through university unity
It has been put to me that a mathematician spends more time setting an examination but less time marking one than does a cultural historian. A university is made up of a variety of people from...
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1,000 extra doctors needed
BRITAIN needs to train 1,000 extra doctors every year to keep pace with changing health needs and working patterns, a new report claims. The Medical Workforce Standing Advisory Committee this week...
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Fact file
* 23.3 per cent of postgraduates were domiciled overseas before entering higher education in the UK * 8.2 per cent of first degree students were domiciled overseas * 13.1 per cent of all full-time...
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Second reading of the Teaching and Higher Education Bill due next Thursday
The second reading of the Teaching and Higher Education Bill is due to take place in the House of Lords next Thursday. Many peers are expected to oppose certain parts of the bill.
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What the bill says
The Teaching and Higher Education Bill gives education secretary David Blunkett - and his successors - sweeping new powers. THES reporters spell out these powers and the wide-ranging reaction to them...
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Troubled response
The Teaching and Higher Education Bill gives education secretary David Blunkett - and his successors - sweeping new powers. THES reporters spell out these powers and the wide-ranging reaction to them...
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Kennedy hunt
No more luck for information seekers after Helena Kennedy's report on further education. Here the problem is that it costs too little - in fact, it is completely free. So bookshops do not stock it,...
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Sector Pounds 800m in red
NEW figures released today by vice chancellors reveal that universities face a shortfall of almost Pounds 800 million over the next two years. The figures coincide with a Higher Education Funding...
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Bill faces rough ride
THE government's new Teaching and Higher Education Bill was this week denounced as the most Draconian attack on university autonomy this century. Legal experts agree that the bill, published last...
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The collision of two worlds
It has been stormy and has gone on for centuries. Huw Richards charts the relationship between government and the universities. EVER since universities were first set up they have had to fight to...
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Primary care R&D spending jumps 70 per cent
Department of Health spending on primary care research will rise from Pounds 30 million to Pounds 50 million, about 70 per cent, over five years. R&D in the area is relatively underdeveloped.
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Four in frame for student debt and billion-pound sweetener
A BILLION-pound sweetener may have to be paid to the private sector purchaser of the student loan debt at a time of rising university debt, the House of Lords heard this week. Baroness Maddock,...
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Shotgun dreading
Relief for Ken Edwards, vice chancellor of the University of Leicester. The chance of his becoming higher education's answer to JFK has eased somewhat after a failed appeal to the city's Crown Court...