Foetal position
(Photograph) - Foetal position: As Parliament prepares to debate the second reading of a bill designed to tighten the 1967 Abortion Act, Pro-Life groups eager to propel the issue up the political...
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Pay-as-you-go favoured
Students and employers would make a bigger contribution to higher education funding under one of three financial models for the future of the sector being considered by Sir Ron Dearing's committee of...
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A-level English passes off the mark
More than 5,000 English A-level candidates were awarded invalid and inflated grades in 1996, with many candidates given passes when they should have failed. The Oxford and Cambridge School...
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Scots want single cash body
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council has called for a single funding body for further and higher education in Scotland. In its evidence to the Dearing committee, SHEFC says further education...
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Neuroscience audit
PRISM, the Wellcome Trust's Unit for Policy Research in Science and Medicine, has begun an audit of neuroscience research. The group is looking at United Kingdom funding patterns and likely future...
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Alas poor unknown soldier
(Photograph) - Alas poor unknown soldier: Anthea Boylston, biological anthropologist at Bradford University holds one of 50 500-year-old skulls of Lancastrian soldiers recently unearthed in Tadcaster...
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Lecturers' lack of team spirit criticised
An American higher education expert has called for greater recognition of the collective aspects of academic work. Elaine El-Khawas, professor of higher education at the University of California Los...
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Baby watched
Researchers at Durham University are appealing for 60 new-born babies to help a study on changing tastes. The babies will be filmed at age three months, nine months and 15 months to discover their...
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Using initiative
The Higher Education Funding Council for Wales is evaluating three of its research initiatives. Institutions and research directors have been asked to give their views on the effectiveness of the...
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Cash for skill base in dispute
Half of Britain's young people should be expected to continue their education after 16 for at least four years, education leaders were told last week. Sir Bryan Nicholson, former president of the...
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Learning distanced from reality in India
I enjoyed the opinion piece "IT can not replace eye-to-eye" (THES, December 6, 1996). If the scenario depicted exists in a developed country like the United Kingdom, one could well imagine the...
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Scientists get teaching ideas mail base
Science lecturers will soon be able to use new technology to exchange tips on teaching. Jonathan Ling, director of studies for physics and astronomy at the University of Hertfordshire, is...
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Myopic elites
For many years Oxford, Cambridge and London played a highly constructive role in helping to set up other universities. It is therefore deeply ironic that members of these universities are prominent...
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Labour protects jobs
THE Labour party has pledged to outlaw waiver clauses for university researchers on fixed-term contracts despite fears that the change could cost the sector millions of pounds a year. The party's...
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Mix and match
The traditional campus model of a university is inappropriate for today's students' needs, says Bryan Nicholson, who believes a creative blend of further and higher education provision is the way to...