Better not just richer
There are now as many students in the United Kingdom taking higher education courses in further education colleges as there were higher education students in total when Lord Robbins's committee...
Search
-
-
Sacked lecturer wins inquiry
David Rindos has been fighting a controversial decision by the University of Western Australia that cost him his job as a lecturer in archaeology for the past three years. Sacked because the...
-
Honorary degree for Qiao Shi
In Saskatchewan an honorary degree for the former head of China's secret police has proved controversial. Qiao Shi, now chairman of China's National Congress, did not, however, decide to decline his...
-
Why Teesside is bad for your health
Why do pregnant women smoke? The question is one of several puzzles to be unravelled by the centre for health and medical research opening at Teesside University. Director Peter Kelley says that the...
-
No flies on Sussex robotic scientists
The normal response to the buzz of two flies forever chasing each other around a lamp is to swat them. But for researchers at Sussex University the flies' behaviour is a source of amazement. It...
-
Helmet helps dyslexics
A Swedish exchange student at the Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen has developed a helmet that will help research into the problem of dyslexia in children. Johannes Linnman has won first prize in...
-
-
Dawkins lecture
Richard Dawkins, the outspoken proponent of natural selection as the sole machinery of biological development, last week launched his latest attempt to persuade the world that no religious...
-
Foreign language teaching tips swap
A Government-funded knowledge exchange has been created to disseminate best practice in foreign language teaching in the workplace. The Network in Vocational Foreign Languages, dubbed Hevocal, is a...
-
Quality-funds link fear
College heads are alarmed at indications that the English funding council is paving the way towards a direct link between quality judgements and funding. In a written version of his speech to last...
-
Medical record
Alumnus to be proud of no 47 is Brian Mawhinney, the mild-mannered and conciliatory Conservative Party chairman, whose efforts to raise the tone of political debate have been so appreciated in recent...
-
Bright sparks
Fears that students are failing to learn basic skills appear to be confirmed by an unsuccessful charity stunt at Aberdeen University. The students planned to walk over hot coals to raise funds for...
-
A payslip too far for an impoverished professor
Ekpo Ekpeyong, one of Nigeria's leading professors of medicine, was torn between a crucial emergency meeting of the university teachers' union and lecturing his final-year students. An apolitical...
-
Federal Wales faces role row
The University of Wales is bracing itself for a new internal wrangle over its federal role. Heads of some of its largest and most influential constituent institutions are backing calls for another...
-
Listening learning bank
(Photograph) - David Blunkett, shadow education spokesman, called for smartcards and accounts at the TUC conference