Giant leap in new recruits is deceptive
Enrolments in higher education grew by 6 per cent this academic year compared with 1994/95, figures published this week show, writes Tony Tysome. Recruitment to both first degree and postgraduate...
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IT's the tops for funding
Information technology, materials science and chemistry have won large slices of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council's funding for research in 1996/97. Announcing the funding for...
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NRI takeover is a 'model for others'
The first takeover of a public sector research establishment by a university happened this week when Greenwich University officially took possession of the Natural Resources Institute from the...
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Stirling accused of racial bias
The National Union of Students Scotland and Central Scotland Racial Equality Council are investigating Stirling University's treatment of an Ethiopian research student who failed a PhD. Wondimu...
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Growing up fast
Edinburgh University's centre for human ecology last week held a press conference protesting against the previous day's announcement by the university that it was unlikely to renew the contracts of...
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Noteworthy cause
If musical accompaniment is an essential element in all decent crusades, possibly the least surprising announcement of the year is that the Campaign for Free Education is planning a CD to raise funds...
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Clean bowled
Far be it from us to suggest that the Department for Trade and Industry's Exporting Education bulletin is handing out disinformation. But anyone who has been to both Hackney and Singapore will find...
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Northern light
Paul Clark, the Higher Education Funding Council for England's director of quality, has been appointed director of teaching and learning for the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council. Dr Clark...
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On a roll
(Photograph) - Courses in gaming are booming in the United States, drawing students not only from across America but from the Pacific Rim, Sweden and even the United Kingdom. Lecturers say they are...
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Orbit gambit
(Photograph) - In this image the telescope was set to pick up the green emissions from iron XII ions, which are common at a temperature of 1.5 million Kelvin.
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Orbit gambit
(Photograph) - Orange-emitting helium II ions are formed at about 70,000 K. Such emissions are blotted out by the earth's atmosphere. On the bottom left a plume stretches far into space.
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Heaven and helium
(Photograph) - As part of Sheffield Hallam University's Elastic Frontiers Festival, fine-art student Tatjana Kovachevic used helium filled balloons to decorate the city's Victorian cemetery. She...
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Stage-managed
(Photograph) - Students on the theatre design degree course at the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design are competing to produce the best stage design for the Birmingham Royal Ballet's new...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a novelist with an entomological bent: "Growing quieter and communicating almost unconsciously through glances, they thought that it would soon be time, too, to find...
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Speaking Volumes: The Road to Serfdom
John Blundell on Friedrich Hayek's The Road to Serfdom . I stumbled on to Hayek's book by accident. I saw a reference to it by George Orwell: "This book should be read by everybody" he commanded. I...