Cuts hit book buying hardest
Purchases of books and periodicals are bearing the brunt of funding cuts in nearly nine out of ten surveyed libraries. Initial returns (46 out of 140) from the Library Association survey of higher...
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Star student challenges lottery
Seventeen-year-old Meike Vernooy's determination to become a doctor has led to confrontations between the ministry of education and the medical faculties in the Netherlands over the effectiveness of...
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. . . or lose 'em
It may seem surreal that one of the organisations charged with building policies for a much-expected Labour government is pushing the British racing car industry as a model for our technological...
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Classified misinformation
There is no doubt that the classified honours degree system should be reformed. (THES, July 5) However the idea that the three institutions surveyed by the Higher Education Quality Council is...
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Rock goes to a hard place
Christopher Wilson reflects on the fortunes of the soon-to-be-repatriated Stone of Destiny In consenting to the removal of "her" Coronation Stone from Westminster Abbey the Queen seems also to have...
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Seven win as Bar loses grip
Oxford and the major legal centres of Manchester and Birmingham became the also-rans this week in a race to extend barrister training beyond London. The Bar Council's choice of seven institutions...
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MP demands audit as principal resigns
A Labour MP has called for the establishment of a special National Audit Office-style review body to examine the overseas activities of higher education institutions. This follows the resignation of...
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Treasury considers 'pay all the way' proposals
Proposals to cut spending on further and higher education by handing much of the cost over to students, their parents, and employers, have been considered by the Treasury, it was revealed this week....
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Robert Gordon argues contracts
The Robert Gordon University is appealing against a Court of Session judgment which ruled that its bid to introduce revised contracts for new staff was unlawful. The appeal centres on whether...
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Dumfries presses for university
Glasgow University may set up a college in the south-west of Scotland that could evolve into a university in its own right. A Dumfries pressure group, the Crichton University of Southern Scotland...
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Six of the best 'could be better'
France's six new universities are dynamic and have reached a level of development which is "irreversible", but state aid has been "notoriously inadequate", according to the academic assessment body,...
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Grade of error on supervision
While I share David Taplin's (THES, July 12) concerns about the quality of doctoral education, he is mistaken to suggest that the report which I and my colleagues prepared for the United Kingdom...
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Don's Diary
Thursday. Wake feeling cold and still jet- lagged. It is only 36 hours since I returned from a two-month research trip to Pakistan and Azad Kashmir. Rush in to attend the 10am short-listing meeting...
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US drop-out rate hits high
Drop-out rates at United States colleges have reached a record high. The figures have increased as private universities have reached lower down the financial scale to recruit students. In 1995 nearly...
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Auditors called in
Auditors have been called into a further education college to investigate accounting errors of up to Pounds 1 million. Exeter College spotted the errors two months ago and principal John Capey called...