Danger in appliance of science - Klug
Royal Society president Aaron Klug has warned the Government against over-centralisation in setting priorities for the science base. Sir Aaron said this week that the over-emphasis by Government on...
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Welsh cut just 2%
Welsh universities and colleges have suffered an overall real-terms cut of 2 per cent in their funding allocations for 1996/97, and some have taken reductions of over 5 per cent. Figures released...
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Seed of an idea: Colin Ferris
(Photograph) - Seed of an idea: Colin Ferris, lecturer in ecology at Leicester University, has collected hundreds of acorns from local oaks and planted them on the roof of a university building. He...
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Don's Diary
MONDAY. "Today's Monday, today's MondayI" as the monotonous 1960s song said. But in my case it is not the washing but a 9.15am lecture. I have taken over, mid-term, from a colleague on the basic...
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Europe aims for just Aids approach
European Union countries should adopt a libertarian and progressive policy towards people with HIV and Aids, in contrast to the United States model which tends towards draconian measures in its...
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Campus security is a key issue
All of us in universities are ambivalent about safety and security on our campuses. We expect to be hermetically sealed against thieves, drug pushers and peeping toms but we resent any obvious...
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Cuts hamper search for quality
Universities and colleges still face serious challenges in improving quality management, according to a report out today. But funding cuts may hamper their attempts to tackle weaknesses, say the...
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Kingsway pair seeks review
A former student union president expelled and a fellow officer suspended from Kingsway College were to appear before the Legal Aid Board yesterday to seek support for a judicial review of their case...
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Scots lead student U-turn
Student moderates are increasingly hopeful that the National Union of Students will abandon its traditional call for the restoration of full grants at its Blackpool conference next week, following a...
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Labour stakes claim in training for life
Labour is planning a two-pronged strategy to improve the quality of training and learning at work. A leaked draft of their training document, which will be released "in the near future" shows the...
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Teaching courses set a price-list
The Teacher Training Agency has dropped plans to introduce a "crude" payment-by-results element into its 1997/98 funding system unveiled today. But it is to press ahead with setting common price...
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Prosaic solution to unspoken issues
Fiona is in the final year of an honours degree in architecture. In tutorials she discusses issues fluently. Her tutors have been impressed by the imagination in her design work. But Fiona is...
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Forth needs a bridge to the real world
Eric Forth (THES, March 22) is unfit to be a minister in an education department, for he shows himself to have not even a beginner's idea of what education is about. Inability to find books in the...
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Forth needs a bridge to the real world
The manufacturer, Fila, is representing its shoes through the advertising campaign "The best F in shoes". In the light of last week's colourful interchange on the link between resources and quality,...