Tim runs out
At last the truth can be told of the final hours in office of the former higher education minister Tim Boswell. As the storm clouds cleared in the wake of John Major's leadership campaign victory, Mr...
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DIY dinner
The Calvinist work ethic has nothing on the one at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium. Professor Eddy Van Avermaet, welcoming delegates to a European adult education conference, praised...
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Tied in
Education union leaders displayed a remarkable consensus at a higher education fringe meeting at this week's Liberal Democrat conference in Glasgow. Panellists David Triesman of the Association of...
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Egged on
Industry minister Tim Eggar was due to visit Sunderland yesterday to launch the university's policy document on science, engineering and technology. The document sets an agenda for the university's...
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With open arms
(Photograph) - Higher education minister Eric Forth (centre) was shown around the site of Royals University College in Docklands last week by scheme partners, University of East London vice...
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Money is not motive for merger, says Staffordshire
The University of Staffordshire announced exploratory amalgamation talks with Newcastle-under-Lyme College this week, writes Alison Utley. The negotiations, which could affect the education of more...
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NVQs given 'too low a profile'
The Government quango charged with introducing national vocational qualifications is bungling the development of new NVQs, according to the head of the leading awarding body of job-related...
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Saints land one safely in the net
Southampton's Premier League football club is being subjected to academic scrutiny. Its progress is being charted through a new service on the Internet provided by researchers at Southampton...
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Shortage of space forced Kent MA delay
Kent Institute of Art and Design has launched an inquiry into events leading to the last-minute suspension of its MA art and architecture course. Ten students from as far away as Mexico and Japan...
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All wired up
(Photograph) - Artist Mandy Barber and parts of her installation involving 800 blankets, 200 electric ladybird nightlights and 35 orange glow electric nightlights, that was exhibited at Sheffield...
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On the right Royal road to real success
De Montfort University's v-c wants the former polytechnic to become like a medieval cathedral, a large employer, a patron of the arts and repository of knowledge and scholarship. Simon Targett...
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Learning to manage with those rapid changes
Arming employees with the skills to manage change within companies should be one of the main responses of management education courses to the quickening pace of change in the wider business...
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Fastest Hamlet in the West
Those aiming to break the record for the fastest recitation of Hamlet's most famous soliloquy should be warned: human judges have been replaced by more probing computerised ones. The speech of the...
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US keeps eye on the race
Taking race into account in college admissions - in the name of helping disadvantaged minorities - was turned into one of 1995's biggest political issues in higher education by conservatives who...