Speaker cornered
Science Minister John Battle used the opportunity provided by the Royal Institution's launch of its Christmas lecture programme this week, to extol the virtues of science, engineering and technology...
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Window box bloomer
No doubt Princess Anne relishes a bit of variety in days spent pulling very small curtains across walls and smashing bottles against boats. So she must have been thrilled to unveil her very first "...
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Tunnel vision
Alumni to be proud of this week, N142 and 143, are a lawyer and an engineer at the sticky end of the Romany shift to the UK. Im-migration minister Mike O'Brien is a former academic, a graduate of...
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Pay review queried
UNIVERSITIES' new pay bargaining chief Peter Humphreys has called on the government to come clean on whether it supports or rejects Dearing's recommended pay review committee. Mr Humphreys, who took...
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Five prepare for Natfhe ballot
FIVE candidates will contest the election for general secretary of the lecturers' union Natfhe, writes Alan Thomson. The five will fight a five-week campaign for the post which has remained vacant...
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Fry quip stokes a drugs fire
DUNDEE University was quick to play down reports this week of a row over alleged pro-drugs remarks made by its student-elected rector, the writer and actor Stephen Fry. There was press speculation...
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Deficit day looms for universities
MORE than half of the universities and higher education colleges in England will be in deficit within two years, latest funding council figures show. By the 1999/2000 academic year, the sector...
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Seamless study for Staffs locals
STAFFORDSHIRE University is close to completing a unique project that will provide seamless education from basic skills to degrees. The university's Pounds 3.2 million campus is part of a joint...
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Views from the podium
LECTURERS are too scared of losing their jobs to be openly critical of new teaching methods but some at a traditional university in thenorth of England agreed to air their views anonymously. "In...
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Southampton's Spanish step to beat EC red tape
THE SUBJECT of Europe is rapidly becoming as contentious in British higher education as in politics. Universities and colleges are beginning to view the bureaucratic machinery supporting the mobility...
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Groups pave the way to work
GETTING students to work together on group projects is gradually catching on as a way of preparing students for work. But assessing such assignments has been a major obstacle, writes Alison Utley....
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Sages on stage loath to change
MANY lecturers are refusing to budge in the face of pressure to step down from the podium and embrace innovative teaching methods that hand authority back to the student. "The defensive tendency of...
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Shared bar bugs students
CAMBRIDGE University colleges are neglecting their students in the pursuit of private money, according to student leaders. Lucy Moses, president of Homerton College students union, said: "I...
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Oxbridge gives case for its fees
IT REPRESENTS a third of the money withdrawn from further education colleges this year for growth and roughly matches the spending by research councils so far on BSE. But is the Pounds 35 million in...
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A woman who would be president
THERE is one vote Mary McAleese cannot count on in next week's election for the president of Ireland: her own. Though entitled to be a candidate, and even having a holiday home in the Republic, the...