Time for genuflection
So what are the real benefits of becoming a professor? Kathy Burk, newly ensconced in a history chair at University College, London, enlivened a highly entertaining inaugural on Anglo-American...
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Sectors turn into rivals
Further and higher education are fighting it out for the non-traditional student market, according to a study published today. The study, The FE/HE Interface: A UK Perspective, says some new...
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Drama student reprieve
The Government has announced a Pounds 36 million scheme to help dance and drama students cover the cost of their training. The money, which will be spread over three years from 1997/98, is to be...
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Readership inflation
Cambridge University is facing protests from some leading dons about the recent tripling in the number of readerships. They fear that the policy of raising the proportion of readerships to the...
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Colleges fight for title
College principals are worried that the future role of their institutions may be "set in aspic" after Sir Ron Dearing's review of the sector. Their umbrella body, the Standing Conference of...
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Monarch of glen takes the high road
Brian Duffield, dean of the faculty of cultural and education studies at Leeds Metropolitan University, has been appointed chief executive of UHI Ltd, the body taking forward plans for a new...
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Carry on campus
Drinking binges, pill popping and cannabis smoking feature with alarming prominence in undergraduate life, according a University of Newcastle upon Tyne study. Some 3,075 second-year students from...
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Field of knowledge
(Photograph) - New universities in sites from London Docklands to the Highlands of Scotland will mean a new look for British higher education in the new millennium (page 6, opinion, page 11)....
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Bosses to call the shots
Ministers have sent radical proposals to Sir Ron Dearing's inquiry into higher education which would transform universities into advanced training academies. They want a dramatic increase in the...
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Losing their heads
Nearly a quarter of college principals have retired in the past three years, a survey by the Further Education Funding Council reveals. Of the 155 colleges which have changed their principal since...
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Full-time teacher cuts hit standards
SCRIMPING on full-time staff to save cash could lower college standards, according to the Further Education Funding Council's annual inspection report. In his third and final report before retiring...
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We were always ethical folk
Robert Eaglestone examines the resurgence of a topic long neglected by many in the world of theory. Ethics" argued Steven Connor in the TLS, "seems to have replaced 'textuality' as the most charged...
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What a waste
Obliterating the binary line was a mistake, argues Mary Warnock. It ruined the vocational role of the former polytechnics and fatally debased the value of a university degree. The binary line which...
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A tip from Florida on college taxes
One of Mrs Thatcher's famous remarks was that society did not exist. But if she could have invented a society it would no doubt have been Miami - it has no income tax, grand opulence and more film...