Chance lost to cash in on UK training
British businesses are boosting the number of employees receiving formal on-the-job and off-the-job training in a bid to close the skills gap with rival international companies, according to a...
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Pounds 5.8 billion
Vice chancellors say the universities will be Pounds 5.8 billion in the red by 2005/06. They want to get the money from students - but it may not be that easy. Vice chancellors were warned this week...
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Why fallibilism is wrong for maths
Paul Ernest contrasts absolutism in mathematics with fallibilism and tries to convince us that the latter is acceptable (THES, September 6). Towards the end he denies any expectation of converting...
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Wrong answer for HE
One of the reasons why reform of student support arrangements has had so little priority in recent years can be found in The THES's interview with Education and Employment Secretary, Gillian Shephard...
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Students run riot on campus
Conflict between rival student groups at the University of Natal in South Africa has caused chaos, with running battles with each other and the police. The protests were sparked by unhappiness on the...
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Breeding ground for governors
As party conference season approaches, Alan Thomson and Huw Richards look at student politicians of past, present and future and examine the impact of mass education on politics In 1992, a fifth of...
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Glen coup
Scotland's red deer are threatenedby a Japanese breed, Juliet Vickery reports. We have, as a nation, broadly welcomed Japanese investment in Britain but there is a growing feeling that one such...
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Teachers ignored by academic recruiters
The response in last week's letters to the charge of low standards of teaching in United Kingdom universities misses the point that those in charge of recruitment discriminate against candidates who...
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London for top-up fees
London University is poised to signal its support for the introduction of top-up fees to Sir Ron Dearing's higher education inquiry. Heads of London colleges are being asked to back a federal...
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Teaching the art of learning
S. Taylor wrote that the central purpose of a first degree is "to facilitate and encourage the transformation of a person from being reliant on being 'taught' to being capable of 'teaching' oneself...
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V-cs retreat on budget
Australian higher education unions have accused vice chancellors of using the federal government's budget cuts and the need to pay a wage rise as a pretext to impose large-scale redundancies. They...
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Expertise shortfall
Organisations should improve their expertise in staff planning to fit in with the current climate of "downsizing" and decentralisation, according to a report released this week by the Institute for...
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All out in November
All university staff, from porters to professors, from both old and new universities, could walk out in industrial action this November. Two higher education unions have voted to ballot their members...
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A Sheffield lad's steely resolve
David Blunkett tells Simon Midgley of his 'long, hard haul' towards a place at Sheffield University in the 1960s, in the second of our series on the university life of politicians who pronounce on...