Governors vote out college chairman
The chairman of governors at a further education college has been forced to resign. George Mardle, a Keele University lecturer and chairman of Social Services at Staffordshire County Council, failed...
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A battle of Wills
Former enfant terrible of Shakespearean scholars Terence Hawkes is now part of the establishment, but a new battleground is emerging. It was all very civilised. In the Shakespeare Institute in...
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Beware of school bias
The decision to form single agencies to oversee non-university qualifications may not be good news. It involves dangers that need to be considered in advance. The Qualifications and National...
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Love in a bold climate
"I'm a revolutionary," the student activist Rudi Dutschke told the young American theology student Gretchen Klotz shortly after their first meeting in Berlin in 1964. Revolutionaries had to be...
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Job scheme claims an 85 per cent success rate
The Northwest is the United Kingdom's 'academopolis', boasting the highest concentration of students in Europe. Harriet Swain and Alison Utley look at how institutions are working to give the region'...
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Lib Dems target students in marginals
Liberal Democrats have been urged by their party to capture student support in key seats with a "kick the Tories out" message. Neil Fawcett, party agent for Oxford West and Abingdon, told delegates...
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20,000 leaks under the sea?
A great lake under the ocean is oneof many schemes devised by scientists to cut carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and hence reduce global warming. But will such technofixes create new dangers?....
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Dial link gives access to Janet
A nationwide dial-up service will soon allow all universities and research councils to access the academic research computer network Janet. The service will be provided by Warrington-based Internet...
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Wonderful weirs save Cornish wetlands from running out of water
The largest lowland heath and wetlands area in the south-west has been saved from running dry by Plymouth University researchers. Geographical scientists and civil engineers from the university have...
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Own quality system means Scots suffer
Maxwell Irvine, who this week left his post as principal of Aberdeen University to become vice chancellor of Birmingham University, claims Scottish higher education institutions are suffering through...
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Exploited exports
Planning a spot of winter sun? Seduced by brochures displaying a bronzed couple strolling hand in hand across a beach? Beware. You have fallen not only for sea and sun but for sexual stereotyping. A...
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New sky line: Lincoln university
(Photograph) - New sky line: Lincoln University welcomes its first students this week, writes Chris Johnston. The project is the first purpose-built city-centre campus in Britain in 25 years. Public...
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Accidental ecotourists
Julian Evans talks to Daniel Start, the leader of the Cambridge graduates held hostage in West Papua, about the dangers of scientific expeditions stumbling into complex political minefields. Wrapped...
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Disabilities aid call
More must be done to improve education for people with learning difficulties or disabilities, according to a report published this week by a Further Education Funding Council advisory committee. It...
