NUS quizzes members on student funding
The National Union of Students is launching what it describes as its most widespread and in-depth research initiative, to sound student views on the funding of education in time for its annual...
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Overlap concern
Raymond Robertson, Scottish Office minister for education, has launched a research project to compare the costs of education for 16 to 19-year-olds in secondary schools and further education colleges...
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Postgrad support
In the academic year 1993-94, there were 43,800 postgraduate award holders in the UK, 22 per cent of the postgraduate population. In England 9,267 postgraduate students received support from access...
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Internet news
Every week THESIS, The THES Internet Service, provides a guide to the news, features and reviews in the newspaper. Job advertisements appear on THESIS on the Tuesday before publication. The New...
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Hepatitis B screening 'unfair to students'
Revised medical school guidelines on screening applicants for the hepatitis B virus continue to discriminate against students compared with health workers, according to medical student leaders. The...
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Balkan briefs: Albanian students
(Photograph) - Balkan briefs: high powered Albanian students including a judge and two "inspectors of law" set to work on the gruelling one-year common professional examination being offered by the...
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HEBE set to close
Higher Education Business Enterprises Ltd, the higher education information agency, is set for closure. Today's meeting of the council of the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals, joint...
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Cost threat to teacher courses
Some universities may pull out of teacher training because of plans published today to set a common price for teacher education courses in England from 1997 onwards. The scheme would also rate...
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Tale of two cities
Oh well, there go Brian Roper's chances of becoming a big wheel in the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals while Gareth Roberts is chairman. It is not that the North London v-c's almost...
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Infamous footsteps
And warm congratulations to the Glasgow University football team, who have qualified for the first round of the Scottish Cup. Let's hope they fare better than their predecessors of 1960, who also...
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Bernstein honoured by his peers
The sociologist Basil Bernstein has "inspired, intrigued, delighted and annoyed" generations of teachers and researchers across the world, an international gathering of sociologists of education and...
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Ministers agree to slash space budget
European space ministers last week agreed on an efficiency drive at the European Space Agency to cut the agency's costs by at least 15 per cent over the next five years. The deal owes much to the...
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Students protest at housing
Students at the London School of Economics heckled higher education minister Eric Forth this week as he opened a new student hall at High Holborn. The students were angry that telephone lines and...
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Chip thieves target colleges
Colleges and universities are being targeted by gangs of thieves on the lookout for scarce memory chips worth up to Pounds 800 each, writes Alison Utley. John Heap, head of computing services at...