Dancers in philosophy
BIRMINGHAM Royal Ballet is broadening its dancers' education by enrolling them on a bachelor of philosophy degree programme. The move follows overtures from the ballet's head of education, Jane...
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Mammoth achievement
At the same meeting, Ken Livingstone gave the big picture as usual, drawing the analogy between fees and the persecution of Galileo and the discovery of the wheel and of fire. He also told delegates...
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Union bashing
If the government finds the now largely loyalist National Union of Students less tractable than it hopes on funding policy, it could have some of its own backbenchers to blame. The NUS leadership was...
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Wishful thinking
As Donald Dewar, secretary of state for Scotland, struts his stuff at the Labour Party conference, Strathclyde University's principal John Arbuthnott has been putting a new gloss on the year's...
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Save the fish
John Ashworth, "Save Britain's Fish Conservation Spokesman", was billed as a star speaker at the conference. Those who imagined that the chairman of the British Library, former head of Salford and...
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PPE but no NEC
Alumni to be proud of 139 and 140 are comrades in the struggle for seats on Labour's National Executive Committee. Loser Peter Mandelson's defeat was the subject of a flood of crocodile tears from...
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V-cs lead call for teaching council
A new General Teaching Council should take over responsibility for the accreditation of teacher training courses from the Teacher Training Agency, vice chancellors say. The power to withdraw...
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Scots chiefs draw line at Pounds 3,000 fee
ALL STUDENTS on four-year Scottish higher education courses should pay a maximum Pounds 3,000 in tuition fees to ensure equity with students in the rest of the United Kingdom, says the Committee of...
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Institute calls for self-rule
THE Educational Institute of Scotland has called for autonomous bodies to regulate student awards, teaching and learning, and quality assurance north of the border. The institute says Scotland should...
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Green for go
(Photograph) - Green for go a student at a rally outside parliament in Bangkok last week gives an enthusiastic welcome to the passing of Thailand's draft constitution to stamp out money politics and...
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Contract researcher jobs at risk
RESEARCH councils are expected to warn the government that thousands of contract researchers could lose their jobs if Sir Ron Dearing's proposal to raise overhead payments is accepted without making...
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HND students spared bills
COLLEGES have criticised the Scottish Office's delay in clarifying new tuition fees for full-time Higher National Certificate and Diploma students, saying it is "a month too late". The Scottish...
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Fight for academic tenure
David Jobbins reports from Palermo on higher education's preparations for the 1998 Unesco world conference. UNESCO is almost certain to adopt a recommendation calling on member states to keep...
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Truth and conflict
The problem with Martin Francis's "celebration" of the idea of working-class, African American, feminist and gay multiple "truths" (THES, September 26) is that it is a recipe for the permanent...
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Business calls for fewer graduates
THE INSTITUTE of Directors has opposed Dearing's key recommendation of raising the number of graduates in favour of fewer graduates of higher quality. The IoD, a non-political organisation...