Chemists raise lab alarm
Top chemists in industry and academe have warned the Government that deterioration of laboratory equipment in universities is rapidly approaching "crisis proportions" and that an urgent national...
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Stars in their eyes and good prospects
Doctorate programmes in particle physics and astronomy attract high calibre students and those qualifying have little difficulty in getting jobs, according to a study to be published soon, writes Kam...
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College crosses Irish divide
(Photograph) - The first cross-border further and higher education institution is opening in Northern Ireland. The Pounds 1.3 million Rural College, close to the Irish border at Draperstown, is fully...
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Scottish IT link gets Pounds 5m boost
Scottish higher education is poised to set up one of Europe's most advanced information technology networks, with a Pounds 5 million boost from the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council. SHEFC...
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Job skills booster is catalyst for change
When captains of industry stand up to speak about higher education, what are they most likely to say? The answer, if the speeches of the past decade are anything to go by, is that they will claim...
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Graduate pay perks push up prices
Graduate recruiters need to rethink their recruitment strategy if they are going to compete with the financial houses which can offer ever bigger pay packets and perks, according to international...
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Leeds v-c to chair CVCP finance group
Alan Wilson, vice chancellor of Leeds University, is to chair the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals group on university finances, resources and management. The group is one of nine created...
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All aboard
(Photograph) - All aboard: Lisa Clayton, the first woman to sail single-handed and unaided round the world, was awarded an honorary degree of doctor of science by the University of Birmingham earlier...
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Divorce dictates trends in 1990s Britain
Researchers from Lancaster University are investigating new trends in migration suggesting that divorce rather than jobs is setting the pattern in 1990s Britain. People in Lancashire and Yorkshire...
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Chinese scholars to major in Singapore
The Singaporean government has granted full scholarships to 350 students from the People's Republic of China. The students will study in Singapore from between three and five years and receive...
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Portuguese close ranks
Rectors in Portugal are to meet with university lecturers' unions to try to hammer out a common position on higher education to present to the incoming Socialist government. The prospect of wide-...
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Hard work for students
My immediate reaction to Gordon Conway's comment in Don's Diary (THES, October ) that "employment of up to 15 hours a week ought not seriously to interfere with (undergraduates') studies" was that...
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Killer's campus cancels classes
Classes were cancelled this week at Israel's Bar Ilan University, the university attended by the student who shot prime minister Itzhak Rabin this week. Speaking shortly after the assassination, the...
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Built-in rewards
May I provide additional information to your article (THES, October ) which stated "a new university raised the marks of over 4,000 of its students by 6 per cent because of disruption caused by...