Ulster hails Pounds 1.5m award
Will education control be local, regional or national? THES reporters monitor moving battlelines Ulster University has hailed a Pounds 1.5 million award from the Millennium Commission as the first...
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New learning and teaching body set to reward excellence
Will education control be local, regional or national? THES reporters monitor moving battlelines EXCELLENCE in teaching is to be rewarded through a new strategy announced by the Higher Education...
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Among one's peers
Naturally, a goodly proportion of the 28 peers who spent four hours discussing the future of Oxbridge college fees last week had been to Oxford or Cambridge. But three had been to the same school....
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Mansfield parked
Should Oxford college fees go, the university may have to persuade the bigger players to share a few more pennies with the poorer ones. But one or two will be left out of the game altogether....
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Mandy dandy
Institutions within Oxford are showing variable form in the struggle to gain power and influence among new Labour's top dogs. St John's is still havering about the fellowship that colleges usually...
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Reading spectacle
Recent recollections of the British Library's former Reading Room suggest readers' eyes frequently strayed from their books. But some perhaps had more to see than others - or thought they did. One...
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Body of evidence
Aristocratic body-part artist Anthony-Noel Kelly will not be looking forward to Christmas. On December 11 he and colleague Neil Lindsay are due in court to answer to the charge that he nicked a few...
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What a performance
Mary Rice will not have enjoyed the industrial tribunal against the Medical Research Council (page 2), which found that the MRC was justified in dismissing her for sceptical remarks about its...
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Explosive advice
A Glasgow University round-table discussion "Adult learners: always the afterthought?" lived up to its name when Brian Wilson, Scottish education minister, cancelled due to a starring role on...
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Called to account
Alumnus to be proud of no 148 has provoked a rare outburst of new Labour dissent. An Early Day Motion asking whether Martin Taylor's treatment of his staff at Barclays Bank makes him the ideal person...
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What you get for your money in Liverpool
The Oxbridge college fees debate is coming to the boil. Harriet Swain reports on the issues at stake John Moores University in Liverpool offers places in halls of residence to about 2,700 of the 6,...
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What you get for your money in Oxford
The Oxbridge college fees debate is coming to the boil. Harriet Swain reports on the issues at stake Accommodation in halls at St John's College varies from Pounds 350 for an eight-week term for a...
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Wilson promises action on access
Scottish education minister Brian Wilson has promised a "New Year offensive" to boost the number of students from poor backgrounds, writes Olga Wojtas. Mr Wilson, launching a leaflet and booklet to...
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Degree inquiry plea
Sir Stewart Sutherland, principal of Edinburgh University, has called for an investigation into the value of the traditional four-year Scottish degree. The Garrick committee, the Scottish arm of the...
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Sutherland training idea vetoed
The government has rejected the Dearing report's recommendation that a new national committee of inquiry should be set up to examine teacher training in higher education. Sir Stewart Sutherland...