Colleges on brink of insolvency
Fifty-eight colleges are expecting to face technical insolvency according to unpublished financial forecasts received by the Further Education Funding Council in March. A further 303 colleges - more...
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Trunk call
(Photograph) - Liverpool University veterinary graduate Oliver Turner on his way to finishing his swim across the English Channel. Mr Turner, aged 24, took 12 hours and 33 minutes to complete the...
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Blair banks on loans
The Labour Party is planning a two-stage reform of student awards and loans. The party's education team, which met academics and union leaders for a policy-shaping seminar in Oxford this week, plans...
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Cancer virus identified
Kaposi's sarcoma, one of the commonest cancers in young men in the West, is almost certainly caused by a human herpes virus, scientists from the Institute of Cancer Research and University College...
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Students wise up to danger of drink
An "alcohol awareness" campaign for students? This might seem a trifle unnecessary yet it is precisely what the National Union of Students and the alcohol advice group Drinkline launched this week at...
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Labour think tank calls for ministry of research
Big cuts in Britain's military research and development spending, no further moves to privatise public sector research laboratories and the creation of a ministry for research are among the key...
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Taylor made
Science minister Ian Taylor launched a Pounds 40 million competition aimed at supporting priorities identified by the Technology Foresight initiative this week. Outline bids for research funding...
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Lost tongues
Fewer British students are signing up for foreign language degrees at university, according to figures from Surrey University. Statistics from UCAS, the applications body, show that last year only 2,...
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German award
The President of the German Federal Republic, Roman Herzog, has awarded the Commander's Cross of the German Order of Merit to Lord Bullock, Founding Master of St Catherine's College, Oxford, and the...
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Self-control of quality assurance assured
The three-year battle for control of the quality assurance process has been won by the universities. Their victory over the Higher Education Funding Council for England was confirmed last week when...
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The battle's won
Newbattle Abbey College, Scotland's sole adult residential college whose core funding was axed by Government in 1989, is this week relaunching two full-time diploma courses. It has survived for the...
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Carry on assessing . . .
While some observers are predicting that next year's research assessment exercise will be the last, the man most likely to have the Government's ear on the subject does not agree. "I would bet a...
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Natfhe aims for local victories
Natfhe, the university and college lecturers' union, is to shift all its further education resources into fighting local disputes, including those over pay, because of the stalemate in national...
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Down the mine
The University of Exeter's Camborne school of mines is hoping to attract more students thanks to a Government-backed campaign aimed at addressing a shortage of mining engineers. The college has its...