Universities' science weak
Universities had the highest failure rate for activities run during National Science Week last March, says a report released this week. But the week overall was an "outstanding success". The week, "...
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Shephard rushes foundation probe
University and college heads have been asked to make a rapid response to the Government's inquiry into entry requirements for foundation year courses, writes Tony Tysome. The Higher Education Quality...
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Lifelong learning green paper in offing
The Government is preparing to publish a "lifelong learning" green paper which will explore new approaches to supporting adult and continuing education and training. The paper, which was originally...
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V-c award
"After the way he organised and ran his session, he is probably going to end up as a vice chancellor" was one participant's comment on a British panel organiser at the International History Congress...
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Greek names tagged
A dusty loft in Oxford's strangest college, All Souls, is where the whacky but worthwhile Lexicon of Greek Personal Names was born more than 20 years ago. Things have moved on and upwards since then...
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Doctor course to relieve pressure
Keele University's school of postgraduate medicine is pioneering a degree aimed at prospective consultants in the health service. Brian McGuinness, head of the school's centre for primary health care...
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Split winnings
Those who claim the binary line has simply been redrawn between higher and further education will have their suspicions confirmed by the latest grants from the National Lottery. Glasgow University,...
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Creche course
The tiny tots of Nottingham University mature students had a surprise at the launch of a day nursery this week. There to join them was vice chancellor Colin Campbell. The university says he was there...
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Twigging on to modern art
(Photograph) - Twigging on to modern art: Tim Pugh, artist in residence at Nottingham Trent University, gathers material for his latest work, which he plans to use in mosaic form on the floor of the...
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Pioneer on the move
Salvador Moncada, who pioneered research into the role of nitric oxide in the body, is to quit his job as chief scientist at Wellcome, the drug company that was recently taken over by Glaxo, and move...
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Colleges hail Highland first
A Highland University now exists at Inverness College, according to Andrew Miller, principal of Stirling University. Twenty-eight students this week graduated in Inverness with Stirling University...
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Iceman cometh to teach wok ways
(Photograph) - Students at Europe's first Academy of Oriental Cuisine begin a three-year NVQ course in Chinese cookery this month. It aims to produce star chefs to rank with the best from France and...
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African history of hit and myths
The practice of history in the conventional western sense is a comparatively recent phenomenon in Africa, says the Nigerian historiographer G. Akin Akinola. The specialist in African histography and...
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Fix-it firm finds niche market in Italy
Private companies are springing up in Italy to guide students through the country's complex, bureaucratic and user-unfriendly university system. For a fee, the firms take students in hand, provide...
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Sport offers a chance for the thinking man
John Callaghan is a professor of sport and is an expert on his subject in many more ways than one. The head of the department of exercise science at the University of Southern California is adept at...