Ulster promotes peace on bomb site
A symbol of hope is to be created in a joint venture by the University of Ulster and Fermanagh district council near the site of one of the worst atrocities of the Northern Ireland troubles....
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Maths chairman attacks standards review equation
Christopher Robson, chairman of the London Mathematical Society's education committee, says he is disappointed by the School Curriculum Assessment Authority's reaction to a society report which says...
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Davies feels the quality on campus return
The concept of a change being as good as a rest gets a ringing endorsement from Graeme Davies, six weeks after his move from running the Higher Education Funding Council for England to become vice...
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Lifeline to a better life
Despite growing up in care Anna Young is at university. She tells Claire Sanders how education has transformed her. Anna Young was abandoned by her mother aged just two weeks. At 18 months she was...
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Probe sheds light on solar eruptions
Eruptions of gas from the sun, which disrupt power lines and navigation systems if they reach the earth, will be investigated by a solar observatory due for launch next Thursday. The joint European...
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Chemistry society joins lab buyers' consortium
The Royal Society of Chemistry is a major partner in a consortium chosen by the Department of Trade and Industry as the preferred buyer for the Laboratory of the Government Chemist. Tom Inch,...
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Bosnia brain-drain appeal
British academics are to be asked to give money to help halt Bosnia's brain-drain. The appeal is the latest initiative of Academic Lifeline for Bosnia, set up by the World University Service, the two...
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Space cake
Here's hoping the British space budget stretches to financing proper fruit cakes with lots of alcohol in them rather than mean sponge cakes in rusty tins. Otherwise the cake baked to celebrate the...
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Lip service
(Photograph) - Lip service: City University dressed its students up as ears, lips and brains in this year's Lord Mayor's Show to celebrate the incorporation of St Bartholomew School of Nursing and...
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Quality codes launched
Concern over the quality of the student experience on offer in United Kingdom higher education institutions, and in overseas institutions with collaborative arrangements with the UK, has prompted two...
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Report rubbishes training schemes
Government training schemes, favoured by all political parties as a "motherhood and apple pie" solution to unemployment, are misguided and an "expensive way of doing very little" according to a...
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Bloody students
Alumni to be proud of no 19: General Sani Abacha, military dictator of Nigeria, possibly acquired his dedication to free speech, due process and humane government during training at the Cadet...
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Keeping you posted
It seems unlikely that Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals staff will learn much from this month's university newspaper cuttings selection, circulated internally, consisting largely of...
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Pint-size offer
Is this the thin edge of the wedge, sticking out from the columns of The Journalist, organ of the National Union of Journalists? Birkbeck College has invited journalists to come and talk to students...
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Governing bodies on road to 'Nolanness'
The governing bodies of further and higher education institutions need to be broader and more open, but there is little need for more outside scrutiny of their activities, the Nolan Committee on...