Access gap gets priority treatment
Bridging the access gap for the 16-18 age group has emerged as a high profile issue, with students, vice chancellors and the Labour party all making it a priority. The announcement by the Committee...
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Timetable for change
In contrast with European Union procedures to promote change in member states, the Council of Europe generally issues recommendations rather than legally binding conventions, recognising the enormous...
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Radio speeds up the Internet link
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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Other conquests
I was interested to read in your Antithesis column (THES, September 13) the piece headlined "Norman's conquest". Contrary to your comment, Foster and Partners have been employed by no fewer than...
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David Miller appointed chairman of Scottish Qualifications Authority
David Miller, chairman of the Scottish Examination Board and the Scottish Vocational Education Council, has been appointed chairman of the new Scottish Qualifications Authority, which will take over...
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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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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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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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