College standards satisfy inspector
Despite an 11 per cent efficiency gain and 5 per cent growth over the last year, standards of teaching in further education colleges have been judged satisfactory by their chief inspector whose...
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Mouse patent contested
The patenting of a mouse genetically engineered to develop cancer will be contested in the European Patent Office next week by 17 groups including a United Kingdom coalition of animal welfare...
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Bloodshed at Nigerian university
The Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, Nigeria's largest higher education establishment, has been closed following the murder of Bamidele Bandipo, director of the university's teaching hospital. Angry...
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HM loan arranger
The Government's plans to privatise the student loans scheme were confirmed in the Queen's Speech this week. Her Majesty said legislation would be introduced to enable students to choose between...
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Area Boy
(Photograph) - Area Boy: Leeds University is sponsoring a new play by Nigerian author Wole Soyinka, Nobel prizewinner and Leeds graduate, which is premiered at the West Yorkshire Playhouse until...
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Shephard rounds on CBI
Top business leaders were lambasted by Gillian Shephard, Secretary of State for Education and Employment, this week for failing to give a clear signal about what employers want from the higher...
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find:girls/computer crazy/any where?
Are girls put off computing by the nerdy image of an anorak-wearing boffin who communes with a terminal and is, above all, male? The answer, according to John Wilkes, senior lecturer in computing at...
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Truly civil engineers
An initiative to get more scientists and engineers into a broader range of jobs in the civil service is being planned by the Government and will be included in a white paper to be published later...
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Very enterprising
South Thames Training and Enterprise Council, which went into receivership in 1994, was paid around Pounds 10 million for running courses for non-existent courses, according to the National Audit...
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Raw material
The Council for Industry and Higher Education has called for a national investigation in to how employers can increase opportunities for students to use workplaces as raw material for learning.
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Cranfield shelves resources centre bid
Another bidder for the Overseas Development Administration's research arm has fallen by the wayside. Cranfield University has pulled out of the competition to buy the Natural Resources Institute, to...
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Video nasty
Coming soon to a cinema near you? Probably not, but the Higher Education Funding Council for England is making a video explaining the allocation process. Based on one of the books that did not quite...
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Moon man seeks money for ideas
A sizeable chunk of Government spending on science and technology should go on funding a "big idea" such as improving air quality or eradicating a disease, according to a policy paper from the...
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Foreign tongues
Is the Nolan committee's travelling roadshow beginning to suffer from jet lag? After visiting Cardiff two weeks ago, the committee last week headed north of the border, where one member of the...
