Don's diary
Thursday With a day's leave to hand I visit the Paula Rego exhibition at the Liverpool Tate gallery. I am stunned by the quality and range of her work. In the afternoon I go to the Alma Tadema...
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IQ man faces axe after child sex letter
Edinburgh University's self-styled "scientific racist" psychology lecturer Chris Brand is today facing a university tribunal which could call for his dismissal. Mr Brand has been suspended from...
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New lava, new danger
(Photograph) - New lava, new danger: Scientists are blaming volcanoes such as Kilauea on Hawaii (above) for destroying civilisations and altering the climate (page 7). But the chaos is even worse...
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Get in training for huge student hike
The prospect of a compulsory training scheme for lecturers has prompted vice chancellors to set up a working party on teaching chaired by former Oxford Brookes vice chancellor Clive Booth. The group...
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Get in training for huge student hike
MERGER of the further and higher education funding councils could help boost post-16 participation rates to 95 per cent of the population, according to one university vice chancellor. Brian Roper,...
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FE crisis heads queue
UNION and employer delegations from further education are poised to beseige the incoming education secretary with urgent demands for more money to avoid massive job cuts. John Brennan, the...
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How Jericho tumbled
The Geological Society conference on volcanoes, earthquakes and archaeology THE RISE and fall of many ancient societies may have been due to earthquakes, according to a Stanford University researcher...
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German volcano could erupt
A "FIRE-SPITTING" volcano in the heart of Germany may force scientists to revise the European geological map, it is claimed. Until now geologists thought the most recent volcanic activity in Germany...
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Electron 100
(Photograph) - Bright sparks: experience the wonders of science first hand at Electron 100, which celebrates the centenary of the discovery of the electron by J. J. Thompson. The exhibition runs at...
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FE crisis heads queue
The Government has consistently exaggerated the cost of further education's 16 to 19 provision while under-estimating school costs so it can sell plans for funding convergence, say college heads. The...
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Celluloid socialists
At the very last - a political party that does not think education, education and education means nursery, primary and secondary. The one and only election broadcast by Arthur Scargill's Socialist...
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Sciences shrink again
The future of chemistry and physics is under threat at a number of universities. Brunel may become the first United Kingdom university to stop all undergraduate physics and chemistry teaching...
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Luton staff want financial context of cuts
STAFF in talks with managers over job losses want more information about the University of Luton's finances. Weekly meetings will take place between the lecturers' union Natfhe and university...
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UNL consortium's teaching won't do
THE STANDARD of teacher training is unsatisfactory among a consortium of seven schools whose courses are validated by the University of North London, say inspectors. Students are not prepared...
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Hilda to become more attractive to women
OXFORD UNIVERSITY's St Hilda's is to set up a working group to help make itself more attractive to women academics after it failed by one vote last week to overturn its ban on male fellows. It must...