Smith launches people's lottery
National Lottery cash will be channelled into education and science, culture secretary Chris Smith said this week. Launching the white paper, The People's Lottery, he said a New Opportunities Fund...
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Greenwich gaze focuses on naval college deal
GREENWICH University believes it may have resolved problems connected with its bid to move into the Royal Naval College. Greenwich has submitted a revised business plan to the future proprietor, the...
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US faces cash crisis by 2015
AN EDUCATION doomsday clock is ticking away in the United States, with the prospect of a yawning funding gap and millions of students turned away, a panel of top educators and corporate chiefs has...
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Fury over computers
THE NATIONAL Union of Students welcomed the idea of a computer for every student, but said it was "exasperated and outraged" that students should have to pay for them. "Every student should have...
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Thirsty work
What I sent in as a description of Seneca (Exam howlers, THES, July 18) was not "hypochondriac" millionaire but "hydrochondriac". Perhaps you should award yourselves a prize - a bottle of water?...
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Koalas worth Aus$1.1billion each year to Australian economy
(Photograph) - Here's looking at you, kids: koalas are worth Aus$1.1 billion (Pounds 490 million) each year to the Australian economy and generate about 9,000 jobs, research reveals. Clive Hamilton...
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Charge of campus sexism irks v-cs in Oz
AUSTRALIAN universities are under fire for discriminating against women and minority groups. The president of the New South Wales Anti-Discrimination Board, Chris Puplick, said that universities and...
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Poor relations fight for status of adult learning
ADULT education is seen as the poor relation of higher education in both industrialised and developing countries despite its importance to economic growth, delegates to the fifth Unesco conference on...
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Woman controls French research
FOR THE first time in the history of France's public research institutes, a woman has been appointed to the top job. Particle physicist Catherine Brechignac has been appointed by the new leftwing...
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Rome site for graduate course on Jewish Italy
A group of academics from the United Kingdom, Italy, the United States and Israel are founding an international postgraduate institute in Rome with the financial backing of a prominent businessman...
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Romania relents on use of language
CLAIMS that changes to Romania's education laws undermine the status of Romanian as the state language have been dismissed by Virgil Petrescu, the education minister. All students in Romania will...
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Students stitch up Ron
Sinking the unthinkable: ministers confess NUS lobbying sidelined Dearing's plans Ministers have admitted that they made a deal with the National Union of Students to soften key funding options put...
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Silence and the ghosts of education past
PERHAPS it was the effect of taking higher education out of party politics for so long. Whatever the reason, David Blunkett's commons statement on the Dearing Report was a distinctly subdued affair...
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...and Blackstone explains
IT WAS left to higher and further education minister Baroness Blackstone to fill in the details and justify the Government's controversial departure on funding from the Dearing report. The baroness,...
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New or strengthened bodies recommended by the Dearing committee
* Institute for Learning and Teaching The institute will accredit training programmes for higher education teachers; commission research and development in learning and teaching practices, and...