Diving provider left to sink or swim
THE Department for Education and Employment appears to have washed its hands of a funding row that could leave a further education college fighting a costly court battle, writes Alan Thomson. The...
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Government fails to stem tide
AS MANY as 30,000 more students are fighting for a university place this year compared with last year, the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service said as The THES went to press. Early signs...
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Tuition fees in Scotland
The Government's decision to introduce student tuition fees in 1998 has also created unforeseen problems in Scotland, as students who have just completed Highers appear to be spurning the Certificate...
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PGCE in decline
THE number of applications for places on secondary Post Graduate Certificate of Education courses has dropped for the fourth year running, figures out this week show. By last Saturday, a total of 18,...
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Mind the gap
Tony Higgins, chief executive of the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service, took about 40 telephone calls a day last week from journalists eager for the latest clearing information. This might...
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Laddered nets
The global village promised by the pioneer Netties has yet to extend to Papua New Guinea where a correspondent reports that the system has been down for the best part of a month. There was a brief...
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Name calling
Getting mistaken for the other place is an occupational hazard of cities with more than one higher education institute, but Southampton University is still wild with the Express on Sunday for a...
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Gender stress
Inclusiveness may be the in thing since May 1, but the University of East Anglia's communications director, Alan Preece, was still slightly nonplussed to receive an invitation to a seminar on "Stress...
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Logical choice
Leonard Nimoy, aka Star Trek's Mr Spock, will host an MIT Media Lab symposium in October. Antithesis knows this because it has been sent a pair of shoelaces to prove it. Confused? So would Spock be...
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Clearing view
It isn't only students who act quickly at clearing time. A-level hopefuls whiling away a sleepless pre-results night in front of the television may or may not have been reassured to find that early...
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Deputy dogged
Alumni to be proud of nos 129 and 130 suggest that not so much has changed in British politics as we'd like to think. Three-quarters of a century ago, cartoonist David Low portrayed Lloyd George's...
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Lecturer pledges to fight on
Phil Baty reports on the final rounds of a lecturer's long legal fight to open up Cambridge's promotions system "I'M SURE the Cambridge managers would like to drop me in the river in a plastic bag...
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Science departments under threat
University of Wales, Swansea, is reviewing the future of its chemistry and physics departments. Peter Townsend, pro vice chancellor (administration), said this week: "We think collaboration with our...
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Physics takes off, slowly
After seven years of absolute decline, the number of students taking A-level physics rose for the first time this year - but only just. Following year-on-year drops that have seen numbers taking...
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The double jeopardy of fees
Concerns are voiced on the future of clinical research, the impact of fees and the need to encourage more students into independent higher education IN 1993, the Labour higher education spokesman,...