Open book
Work has started on a Pounds 1.5 million three-storey extension to the library at the University of Essex adjoining the Albert Sloman Library and providing an extra 250 reader spaces. The Higher...
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Lab myth Scotched
The myth of the scientist as a boffin in a white coat is being dispelled by an open day on March 7 run by the 22 further education colleges and five higher education institutions in the West of...
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Devolved Scotland needs successor for SHEFC
A planning and funding buffer body should be responsible for higher education under a Scottish parliament, according to a paper from the Association of University Teachers Scotland. Delegates to...
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THESIS
Every week THESIS, The THES Internet Service, provides a guide to the news, features and reviews in the newspaper. Job advertisements appear on THESISon the Tuesday before publication. The service is...
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Historian goes shopping for FBI
A British history professor played a central role in an elaborate FBI sting to catch a Smithsonian curator selling military artifacts from the United States' national collection, it has been revealed...
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LibDems want cap on tuition
Tuition fees should be capped and institutions which overcharge for courses should be fined, the Liberal Democrats said this week. Unveiling his party's "lifelong learning" policy paper, Paddy...
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Foreign lessons for Ron
Sir Ron Dearing will look abroad to answer key questions facing the Robbins-style higher education inquiry launched this week. Sir Ron, who is to head the inquiry, said that other countries were...
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FE funding overhaul ahead
Radical changes in the way higher education is funded in further education colleges are to be considered by funding council chiefs. Proposals contained in a report published this week call for...
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Promo prizes
The winner of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council's second science communicator award will receive a Pounds 3,000 prize. This year there is a new category for postgraduates...
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Dental pain gain
Greenfield also had a handy hint, based on United States biorhythm research, on dealing with dental pain: go for a lunchtime appointment. This is the point at which people subjected to cold and...
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Too many Forman
Bipartisanship may rule, but the Commons debate on Education Secretary Gillian Shephard's inquiry still threw up one alarming idea as former higher education minister Nigel Forman suggested that the...
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Christians and lions
The American magazine, Sports Illustrated, reports that a college basketball team has recently had two games abandoned - the first because one of its players brandished a chair and threatened a...
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What a drag net
The old joke about there being only five education news stories (that many?), with their apparent diversity merely variations upon common themes came to several minds last week as the "Essays on the...
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