Why drop-outs go off course
A new university's analysis of student drop-out rates suggests the reasons are more varied and complex than simply student hardship. Financial problems were the main factors cited by the Committee of...
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Clean sweep
John Barnes, Ken Minogue, Pat Dunleavy, George Jones, several hundred exceedingly bright students . . . the London School of Economics list of those with specialist political expertise, some with...
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Gobbled Gaelic
Dundee University is searching for a postgraduate native Gaelic speaker to salvage its project to develop a Gaelic-speaking computer. Dundee's MicroCentre, world famous for its communication systems...
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Ta-ra Tarango
Higher Education As An Aid to Sporting Behaviour No 2: Jeff Tarango, the American tennis player who self-destructed so spectacularly on court at Wimbledon, was formerly a student at Stanford...
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Bread and butter
Labour's higher education spokesman Bryan Davies was pleased to find no sign of the high life some used to associate with the Student Loans Company - although he came away from a recent visit feeling...
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AUT brushes up Euro lobby
The Association of University Teachers is to ask staff with expertise to monitor European programmes and report back to the Commission on their effectiveness. The move follows an AUT seminar on...
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Director makes job U-turn
Southampton Institute is seeking redundancies just days after director David Leyland, publicly assured staff that their jobs were safe. The U-turn comes as the institute's Natfhe branch released a...
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Scottish students to go still higher
The expansion of higher education is driving other changes in education and training, according to the Edinburgh University's centre for educational sociology. Its Scottish Young People's Survey...
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Fawcett turned full on
On August 11 1994 the world-famous Fawcett Library, in the basement of London Guildhall University's Calcutta House, came within four minutes of "major mould". Heavy rainfall that stopped tube trains...
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External examiner reform
The Higher Education Quality Council is consulting universities on fundamental reform of the external examiner system - reform the council argues is vital if the system is to be of any value in the...
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Snags appear over franchises
Colleges are crying out for guidance in the wake of the Handsworth College report. Alison Utley reports "The rapid growth has taxed the college's ability to manage and control the effective delivery...
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Sulphate strings could save sight for thousands
Scientists at Lancaster University hope their work on a little known carbohydrate called keratan sulphate will help save the sight of thousands of people. Its importance is only now being appreciated...
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Advertisers eat their words on family diet
Families perceive television advertising as having only a marginal influence on children's diets. The myth that parents are waging a continual battle to ensure their offspring eat healthily is also...
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Afrikaaner who runs with ANC ball
Easy platitudes about national unity have accompanied the rugby World Cup in South Africa like a theme tune, but when Andre Odendaal says "the excitement and the range of people who have been...