Colleges fight for title
College principals are worried that the future role of their institutions may be "set in aspic" after Sir Ron Dearing's review of the sector. Their umbrella body, the Standing Conference of...
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Carry on campus
Drinking binges, pill popping and cannabis smoking feature with alarming prominence in undergraduate life, according a University of Newcastle upon Tyne study. Some 3,075 second-year students from...
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Field of knowledge
(Photograph) - New universities in sites from London Docklands to the Highlands of Scotland will mean a new look for British higher education in the new millennium (page 6, opinion, page 11)....
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Bosses to call the shots
Ministers have sent radical proposals to Sir Ron Dearing's inquiry into higher education which would transform universities into advanced training academies. They want a dramatic increase in the...
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Losing their heads
Nearly a quarter of college principals have retired in the past three years, a survey by the Further Education Funding Council reveals. Of the 155 colleges which have changed their principal since...
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We were always ethical folk
Robert Eaglestone examines the resurgence of a topic long neglected by many in the world of theory. Ethics" argued Steven Connor in the TLS, "seems to have replaced 'textuality' as the most charged...
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What a waste
Obliterating the binary line was a mistake, argues Mary Warnock. It ruined the vocational role of the former polytechnics and fatally debased the value of a university degree. The binary line which...
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Right said Sir Fred
Sir Fred Hoyle, treated like a heretic for saying that life on earth came from space, tells Lucy Hodges why he is nevertheless suspicious of Nasa's claims to have found traces of life in a Martian...
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A tip from Florida on college taxes
One of Mrs Thatcher's famous remarks was that society did not exist. But if she could have invented a society it would no doubt have been Miami - it has no income tax, grand opulence and more film...
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Why the NHS is a perverse role model
David Albury proposes a radical restructuring of academic life. Staff would become independent contractors, who bid for work from managers, who would specify courses and research programmes to meet...
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Thesis theories
The United Kingdom Council for Graduate Education's conclusion that the traditional PhD thesis may be out of date (THES, September ) is surely fallacious. It does not follow that "differences in the...
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Benefits for porters and professors
Your leader and article mix two separate issues. Further, the leader misses the key rationale behind the COMCON project, that all employers in the European Union have an obligation to justify the...
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Disc world
Micro-reviews of 400 educational CD-Roms, mostly school-age titles, have been put on the Web at ncet.csv.warwick.ac.uk/WWW/projects/mpftp/software/software.html. Education departments, teacher...
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Pacific link
The World Wide Web Consortium, which tries to advance web technology and standards without automatically following Netscape or Microsoft, now has a third base at Keio University near Tokyo. The...