A First glass honour
Sunderland and Dan Klein share a passion for glass. And, as one of the first professors in the subject, he tells Harriet Swain about his love of collecting and the new National Glass Centre being...
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When in Rome...do as London
Rome's La Sapienza University, the largest in Europe, is looking at the structure of London University's autonomous colleges and schools as a possible model for its own reorganisation. Senior...
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Maths fails to muster A-level student troops
Students on A-level courses have trebled in number in the past 30 years but the proportion of 18-year-olds taking science and mathematics has stuck stubbornly at 5 per cent, according to a study...
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Clarke eases cash flow
Kenneth Clarke's budget statement has loosened the garrotte imposed on further and higher education by last year's budget, but only temporarily. There was relief at the allocation of an extra Pounds...
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Massive shake-up for cash-strapped OU
The Open University may have to shed up to 350 jobs and completely reorganise its regional structure because of a financial crisis. In one year the university has gone from a 1994/95 surplus of...
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Bible gets a title after 470 years
(Photograph) - Title deeds: a complete copy of William Tyndale's 1526 English translation of the New Testament, with a previously undiscovered title page (see above), has been found in the Bible...
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I'm the future, fly me
(Photograph) - An extensive British canal network was one of the winning solutions for transport problems proposed by students this week as part of the European Week for Scientific and Technological...
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Friction over pay fraction
The Association of University Teachers could take legal action if universities dock the pay of academics who took part in last week's strike by 1/260th instead of 1/365th. The Universities and...
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Random explosion
Radical changes in the student profile over recent years have been haphazard and variable, according to the the Institute of Employment Studies annual graduate review. Expansion has allowed access by...
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Off the ball
Have the rugby authorities invited the wrong Oxford university to play in the annual Twickenham bash against Cambridge? Oxford Brookes alumni (Tim Rodber and Andy Gomarsall) scored more tries in...
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Ms Docs squashed
Women seeking senior positions in medical schools are victims of discrimination, according to Joe Collier of St George's Hospital Medical School in this week's Lancet. The proportion of university-...
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Unwellcome news
The Wellcome Trust is threatening to take funds out of UK research projects and send them abroad if the Government levies an overhead charge for academic biomedical research. In its submission to...
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Respond to students, urge new HEQC guidelines
Revised Higher Education Quality Council guidelines for universities and colleges on quality assurance and control call on institutions to respond effectively to the expectations detailed in various...
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Higher Education Quality Council
The Higher Education Quality Council has attacked a Scottish review of teaching quality assessment for its comments on academic quality audit, writes Olga Wojtas. The Miller review group, set up...
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TTA hits out at single body idea
The Teacher Training Agency has blasted detailed proposals for the creation of a new single higher education quality body. It is not convinced by the plans which would knit together funding council...