Labour plans to net IT riches in academe
A Labour government would rely on academic expertise in networking and multimedia, teamed with private sector and European Union finance, to build a national broad-band information network by 2005....
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from an author who, By the Way, started off as a banker: "The Empress turned on her side and closed her eyes with a contented little sigh. The moon beamed down upon her...
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Speaking Volumes: Productivity and Technical Change
Jonathan Mitchie on W. E. G. Salter's Productivity and Technical Change. How on earth do you pick the one book in your academic field which has meant the most to you? The books which have meant the...
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Corking profit for Freiburg vineyards
Degree certificates are not the only valuable items adorned by the crest of Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg this summer. It will also be on the labels of the university's first methode...
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Flight of fancy: artist Andrew Fyvie launches Earth Bird
(Photograph) - Flight of fancy: artist Andrew Fyvie launches Earth Bird, a scrap-metal sculpture made for a dance drama, Cry of the Earth, during Green Arts Week at Edge Hill College, Ormskirk,...
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PhDs in demand
The Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council is planning a 50 per cent increase in the number of PhD studentships it funds to meet demand from students, em-ployers, universities and industry....
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Opening tour of the Elizabeth Fry building
(Photograph) - Round trip: architect Richard Brearley puts Gillian Shephard, the Education and Employment Secretary, in the picture on the official opening tour of the Elizabeth Fry building at the...
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Mobile phone blinds the stars
Mobile phones are posing a threat to astronomers' research into the Big Bang and the death of stars. The next generation of phones is to use a low-orbit satellite network which has several frequency...
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Art merger goes ahead
Southampton University and Winchester School of Art agreed in this week principle to merge despite speculation that the change could lead to job losses. The governors of the school, which has just...
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Labour limit on lawyers proposed
A new Young Labour Lawyers group has called for greater regulation of the legal training market to stop law students falling into debt. The group wants access to law courses limited to make it easier...
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Firms feel GNVQs 'too broad'
New "vocational A levels" are not vocational enough, the council which awards most of them warned this week. Advanced General National Vocational Qualifications are gaining ground as a route into...
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A measure of freedom
James Tooley explains how the return of IQ testing could liberate education from credentialism. It would be disingenuous to say that I wrote an essay mentioning IQ without thinking that it would get...
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Speaking your mind
Do speakers of different languages see the world in different ways? Mark Pagel reports on whether language structures the brain. Modern humans are in many ways very mediocre apes. We are not so big,...
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Gloom trimming for job adverts
There is a growing literature on the marketing of higher education in general, and individual universities and colleges in particular. It is another side of the "higher education as business" thesis...
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Don's Diary
FRIDAY. With my colleague Dave Hill give a talk to student teachers, teachers and lecturers at Soweto College of Education on politics and education in Britain. In the ensuing discussion, those...