V-cs told to toughen their act for budget
Higher education heads should prepare to fight their corner in one of the toughest ever public expenditure rounds this autumn, Michael Bichard, permanent secretary of the Department for Education and...
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Learning market launch
Education, industry and Government have joined forces in a unique campaign designed to sell learning to the public. The Campaign for Learning, launched on Wednesday, promises to market learning like...
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Queen's supports legislature move
Queen's University is backing a plan to take the "storm" out of Stormont. Its outreach centre in Armagh is supporting an ambitious project to site a new parliamentary body 40 miles from the...
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Happy days
(Photograph) - Happy days: Students at Wi****ersrand University, which with other universities and technikons have become part of a united system
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Fired by a training spirit
Trade union leaders have called on employers to change their "hire and fire" culture to one of "train and retain" to build workplace partnerships for lifelong learning. Delegates at the TUC's...
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Observatories set for private sell-off
The Department of Trade and Industry was expected yesterday to open bidding for the ownership of the Royal observatories to the private sector. Both the Royal Greenwich Observatory and the Royal...
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Veterinary school faces job losses
The Royal Veterinary College is facing staff cuts because of financial difficulties after its grant allocation was cut by 8.7 per cent in February. Principal Lance Lanyon, who also leads the...
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Trains fair
The sole repository of absolute truth is of course mathematics and the latest issue of Mathematics Today reveals another small step forward. Barry Doe tells of a country whose rail service has...
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Socks shopped
The journal later reports that Murphy's Law is alive and well and living in your sock drawer. Robert Matthews investigated the dictum that "if anything can go wrong it will" by creating a theoretical...
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Return to Coventry
How sure can we be that the Higher Education Funding Council for England is heading in the right direction with its plans for teaching and research? A question worth asking after the adventures of...
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Up Pompey?
Mounting tension in the office of Labour's further and higher education spokesman Bryan Davies. No, nothing to do with trivialities like Dearing, student loans legislation or the party's forthcoming...
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Computer gets to bottom of back pain
Sufferers of lower back pain can look forward to better therapy if research at the University of Wales Aberystwyth proves successful. Estimates for the cost of back pain in the United Kingdom run...
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On track of drug cheats
Academics at Liverpool John Moores University have been commissioned by the Sports Council to help beat cheats on the track. Although the number of athletes avoiding detection in drugs testing is...
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Press cutting
Reassurance for denizens of the Association of University Teachers office in Notting Hill - that mysterious yet strangely familiar female figure knocking around the place is not a spy placed by...
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Prince's revolution
Alumnus to be proud of No: 46 is the artist formally known as Prince, the rising documentary film-maker Ed Windsor. In the same week as regaling the nation with his views on the life of his great-...