A picture of college success
COLLEGES are considering introducing a pictorial league table to eliminate the unfairness they see in the present system. Terry Melia, outgoing chief inspector of the Further Education Funding...
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Robertson alludes to cuts moratorium
RAYMOND Robertson, Scottish Office minister for education, has hinted that the Government may be about to call a halt to higher education funding cuts in the Budget. Mr Robertson, speaking at the...
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Student poisoned
A Keele University student died on Tuesday from carbon monoxide poisoning in her Stoke-on-Trent flat. Four other students were treated in hospital. Douglas Trainer, NUS president, said she was the...
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London sounds fees warning
THES reporters round up the latest submissions to the Dearing Inquiry. UNIVERSITY of London colleges have warned that they will have to charge fees to prevent further deterioration of courses and...
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Lecturers frozen out
IT to reduce staff by the year 2000, say universities. Thousands of university lecturers took to the streets this week to protest at underfunding and low pay. But universities are planning to cut...
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No, no, not that nut
Hundreds of academics from Glasgow and Strathclyde universities, converging on the city's ABC cinema for a mass rally on their day of action, discovered that the film showing was The Nutty Professor.
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Polish minister avoids press
Journalists covering a lecture by Polish education minister Jerzy Wiatr at the University of Lodz were ejected from the building last week. The journalists were grabbed and thrown down steps by men,...
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Reform of maths hits trouble
MATHEMATICS will suffer if the Government rushes through a proposed restructure of modular A levels before the general election, leading academics and politicians have warned. Mathematics academics...
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Uphill task for colleges
NEWS THAT 13-year-olds in England are failing at mathematics has been seized on by the London Mathematical Society as further confirmation of sharply declining ability among students. The study of...
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Cost-cutting campaign puts colleges at risk
COLLEGES could be put at risk if drives for efficiency continue at the same rate, further education chiefs have warned. The Further Education Funding Council's 1995/96 annual report reveals a...
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Notts expansion
The University of Nottingham is to build a Pounds 40 million campus designed by architect Sir Michael Hopkins. It will house the schools of management and finance, faculty of education and the...
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Starvation on a planet of plenty
As the World Food Summit opens in Rome, Laura Kelly shows how hunger is an increasing menace for many just as global food production is stagnating, and Vittoria D'Alessio asks food experts what is...
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The great and not so good
Suman Gupta argues that a writer's racism does affect his or her literary status. The debate that followed the publication of T. S. Eliot, Anti-Semitism, and Literary Form, an attack on Eliot's anti-...
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A laureate accused
A 72-year-old Nobel laureate has been accused of sexually molesting a minor, one of 54 boys he looked after from Papua New Guinea. A journal he kept during his time in the tropics might lend some...