The theatre with quite a good library attached
A missed train and a Canadian academic's passion for the Elizabethan theatre have brought a unique collection of 3,000 books on the Shakespearean theatre to London's Globe complex. In 1969 Don Rowan...
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Out of range
(Photograph) - Many university rifle and pistol clubs could be forced to close if tough new gun laws, announced in this week's Queen's Speech, are passed. All of them will have to strengthen security...
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Sir Ron tells colleges: you must sell yourselves
The vast majority of employers still need convincing that university graduates are worth hiring, Sir Ron Dearing said this week. Sir Ron, giving details of the early progress of his higher education...
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'Skewed' Ofsted reading report slammed
University of London academics who shot holes in a report on children's reading standards by the Office for Standards in Education say the organisation needs a few basic lessons in research technique...
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Modules stir mixed reception
universities and colleges are increasingly adopting modularisation - the movement now involves around 90 per cent of the sector - but the way it is being introduced is causing resentment among staff...
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Japan faces number crunching future
World market success is forcing a once tightly knit nation to unwind. Tony Tysome takes a look Leaders of Japanese higher education are fighting to avert a financial and educational crisis they fear...
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Beyond their Ken
(Photograph) - Labour MPs Ken Livingstone and Tony Benn have lent their weight to a student campaign of opposition to tuition fees. Mr Livingstone said that to impose fees "would create a two-tier...
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Degree critic faces legal action
A lecturer who circulated criticisms of business degree programmes franchised in Singapore by a British university is facing legal action. The Management Development Institute of Singapore terminated...
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Solid fare
Occasionally accused of having feet of clay, the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals came close to finding those of its press officer, Ted Nield, encased in concrete as well last week. Dr...
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Skulking admiration
International misunderstandings No. 357: an eastern European academic, visiting Edinburgh for a higher education conference, congratulated his hosts on the attractiveness of the city's prostitutes....
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There was Nel, Nel . . .
Warm congratulations to the publishers of The Science Reporter, august organ of the Association of British Science Writers, for a classic display of the havoc that can be wrought by omitting a single...
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Web Des Res
It is refreshing to learn that not everyone thinks of the Internet as an ephemeral concept floating around in cyberspace. In a paper proposing a strategic alliance of HE institutions to provide...
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Daisy the drunk
Must-read headline of the month for October goes to the Warwick University NewsLetter and its front-page story "Warwick Scientists Devise Breathalyser For Cows". The bad news for those scenting the...
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Qualified support
National Council for Vocational Qualification chief executive John Hillier will be displeased to learn that the entire first print run - 1,500 copies - of Peter Robinson's Rhetoric and Reality:...
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Goodbye to all that
Rare the politician who enjoys being attacked rather than praised. But Labour higher education spokesman Bryan Davies considered it well worth the associated invective from a Scottish Nationalist...