Storm hits Swansea boss
The future of Gerald Stockdale as principal of Swansea Institute of Higher Education is in doubt this week following the resignation of two prominent governors. The resignations come in the wake of a...
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Henley to drop Bac
Henley College, one of the few public sector institutions offering the International Baccalaureate, is planning to phase the option out. Graham Phillips, principal of the Oxfordshire tertiary college...
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Poor performance
If London Guildhall's football fans are depressed, one shudders to contemplate the likely collective state of mind of Walsall College of Art and Technology's working party on Performance Indicators...
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Flat rate
Edinburgh University has made a special offer over the graduation period for family and friends of the graduands to rent its self-catering flats at a reduced rate. This, it says, will give parents a...
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Loans extended
Career development loans, worth up to Pounds 8,000, are to be extended to three years to provide wider opportunities for more students, particularly on sandwich courses, James Paice, the education...
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Verbs to verse
(Photograph) - Verbs to verse: Karl-Heinz Von Rothenburg teaches Latin with classical music or catchy tunes playing in the background at the Bielefeld Institute for Alternative Teaching and Learning...
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Lined up
And a rather mystifed hello to Warwick University's expert on chaos theory, Professor Series.
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Quality chiefs prefer secrecy
Reports on universities' and colleges' quality assurance arrangements should not be made public and institutions should set their own standards, quality chiefs have proposed. The results of...
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Wolf is in the art studio
The painful results of the years of high inflation have been affecting academic institutions for some time. The backlog of those years of the nation's financial imbalance has now arrived with a...
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Fixed-terms deter the best
University teaching quality may be suffering because of problems associated with increasing numbers of fixed-term contracts, says the Association of University Teachers. The union held the inaugural...
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Drama hits House over artistic future
A Tory MP tackled the Government this week over its failure to address a "growing crisis" in funding dance and drama courses and students. Peter Luff, Conservative member for Worcester, told the...
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MRC lobbies for mad cow study
The Medical Research Council has drawn up proposals for a Pounds 22 million study of mad cow disease and Creutzfeldt Jakob disease in an effort to boost Britain's scientific expertise in the area....
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Malay teacher status boosted by new university
Malaysia is planning to build a university for teacher training within the next three years and is upgrading all teacher training courses to diploma level from next month. Education minister Datuk...
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Household accounts circa 1300
Family values are to be explored within a late medieval context in a project bringing together scholars of English with historians and archaeologists. The interdisciplinary research team is based at...