The professionals take the stage
The Dearing inquiry will also be an inquiry into professional education, for two reasons. First, preparation for the professions constitutes a big chunk of what universities and colleges do. Second,...
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Just a push at an open door
Sir Ron Dearing's review of higher education starts in a few weeks. Below, academics kick off debate in The THES with their views on what evidence he should consider. The Dearing review is Britain's...
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Stage-managed
(Photograph) - Students on the theatre design degree course at the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design are competing to produce the best stage design for the Birmingham Royal Ballet's new...
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Heaven and helium
(Photograph) - As part of Sheffield Hallam University's Elastic Frontiers Festival, fine-art student Tatjana Kovachevic used helium filled balloons to decorate the city's Victorian cemetery. She...
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Orbit gambit
(Photograph) - Orange-emitting helium II ions are formed at about 70,000 K. Such emissions are blotted out by the earth's atmosphere. On the bottom left a plume stretches far into space.
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Northern light
Paul Clark, the Higher Education Funding Council for England's director of quality, has been appointed director of teaching and learning for the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council. Dr Clark...
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Growing up fast
Edinburgh University's centre for human ecology last week held a press conference protesting against the previous day's announcement by the university that it was unlikely to renew the contracts of...
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Stirling accused of racial bias
The National Union of Students Scotland and Central Scotland Racial Equality Council are investigating Stirling University's treatment of an Ethiopian research student who failed a PhD. Wondimu...
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Giant leap in new recruits is deceptive
Enrolments in higher education grew by 6 per cent this academic year compared with 1994/95, figures published this week show, writes Tony Tysome. Recruitment to both first degree and postgraduate...
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Orbit gambit
Ropelike plumes, and hairlike jets of gas that stream through the sun's atmosphere at 450 kilometres a second, have been pictured in unprecedented detail by a new observatory balanced in space...
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Increase in student numbers
Full-time students in further education colleges and sixth-form colleges increased by 6 per cent between November 1994 and November 1995 according to the first returns from the new student data...
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Cutting letter
Staff and students at the University of Wales, Cardiff, have written to Welsh MPs expressing "serious concern" over funding cuts in higher education. In a letter signed by vice chancellor Brian Smith...
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Loans assent
The Student Loans Bill, which allows private lenders to receive Government subsidies to offer student loans, received Royal Assent this week. The Government hopes the first private loans will be...
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Highland hope rises
The University of the Highlands and Islands project has cleared another hurdle in its bid for Millennium Commission funding, with an external consultant this week embarking on a detailed appraisal of...