Loans row hits poll
Already stumbling badly, Republican candidate Bob Dole's presidential campaign is now on the defensive over the United States' student loan programme. Republican attacks on popular "direct" loans...
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Oiling green palms
A Pounds 7 million proposal to build a marine environmental research centre in Wales has received approval from the Millennium Commission. The centre will be located in Pembrokeshire, near to the...
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Safe as houses
Rooms at Dundee University's new Pounds 3.5 million halls of residence are fitted with safes operated by student bank or credit cards using a "swipe" system.
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Budding engineers go to market
Richard Barry's article is an interesting proposal but worthy of further testing. There are no academic absolutes in the criteria employed to determine admissions to any degree course. The A-level...
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Catch in tax dodge
The suggestion in your report ("Tax dodgers spared axe", THES, September ) that the branch of lecturers' union Natfhe at the University of West England was involved in negotiating preferential "no...
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Budding engineers go to market
Richard Barry (Opinion, THES, September 20) argues that we should restrict the supply of engineering graduates by limiting access to degree courses to those who can display a very high level of...
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Welsh start statement regime
The Disability Discrimination Act aims to encourage institutions to provide a better service for students with disabilities. Welsh higher education institutions this week became the first to submit...
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Health experts attack Blair's NHS remarks
Health economists are urging the Labour party to come clean on its plans for a revamped NHS, after Tony Blair announced earlier this week that a Labour government would reverse the internal market in...
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Dearing teams up
A team from the Institute of Education, London, will examine more than 1,500 replies to a questionnaire from the Dearing inquiry into higher education. Led by Ronald Barnett, dean of professional...
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Academic animal feed
Should university professors participate in "performance-based" incentive schemes and bonus programmes? The question is widely asked wherever universities are being called on by their governments to...
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Healthy attitude for Lancaster
The concept of healthy body, healthy mind took a step forward last week with the formal launch of a scheme to turn Lancaster University into a healthy and environmentally-pleasing campus. The Health...
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Britons relax with a bedtime vision
Nearly half of Britons regularly hallucinate, according to a study by Robert Priest, emeritus professor in psychiatry at the University of London. In a survey of 5,000 people, Professor Priest found...
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Ashrawi outlines peace agenda
Palestinian academics stayed off the streets while the bloody battles raged between Palestinian police, civilians and Israeli soldiers in West Bank towns last week. Instead, they searched for a...
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Scots plan post-Dearing
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council is guarding against planning blight resulting from the Dearing inquiry into higher education by trawling for ideas on how institutions can work together...