Colleges have to pay back money
Large numbers of further education colleges are having to give back money to their funding council this month because they failed to count their student numbers accurately. The first full external...
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New Solutions, old problems
New Solutions, an independent group of over 100 student union officers of various political hues, has launched a consultation document this week to further debate on student funding. The document,...
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Absolutely lovely
(Photograph) - Absolutely lovely: The Royal College of Art's watering hole, the Absolut ArtBar, looks new. But it has had more than a splash of paint. Thanks to sponsorship from the spirits company...
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Internet news
Have your say on the issue of student funding. This week The THES is putting the student-produced New Solutions document and questionnaire (page 8) on the Internet. Every week Thesis, The THES...
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Nerve centre opens
A new Pounds 1 million neurosciences research institute, which opened yesterday at Dundee University is expected to raise Pounds 3 million of research income over the next five years.
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Scholar fights on
Cyril Edwards, the linguistics scholar made redundant by Goldmiths College last year, has resigned from the Association of University Teachers because the union dropped its High Court case against...
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Scots TV pioneers
Scotland's higher education institutions have taken a cautious step towards establishing their own TV channel. The Committee of Scottish Higher Education Principals this week set up a group to talk...
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Sussex lookalikes
Plus ca change? A still politically-active alumnus of early 1970s Sussex University, cherishing memories of days when the Falmer campus's public spaces were "like one giant wall newspaper"...
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Campus sports lobby makes its debut
Sir Roger Bannister's working party to consider the place of sports scholarships in British universities met for the first time this week. The group, which will report back to sports minister Iain...
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Schools to eclipse college training
Teacher training colleges and university education departments stand to lose more funding and control to school-based training schemes under Government plans to be unveiled next week. Phased funding...
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Tooterling on
A warm welcome to The TooTer, a Gateshead College Natfhe journal devoted to "reporting all that is wrong with the state of contractual arrangements within FE colleges at the present time". Given this...
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Launch of plan to learn for life
The Government is preparing to publish an important consultation paper on "lifetime learning", Gillian Shephard, Secretary of State for Education and Employment, announced this week. The document,...
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LSE strip teaser
Alumni to be proud of no 14: Robert Watters, proprietor of Rick's, the Houston, Texas strip-bar whose past patrons have included O. J. Simpson, Sting and President Bush's 1992 Republican convention...
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Academic drift
At last a use for all the material that never made it into the research assessment exercise? This week the Friends of Dundee University's botanic garden organised a lecture by "alternative" floral...
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Speeding at 74
If biographers leave their imprint on their subjects, the converse is equally true. Shortly after telling a seminar about Gladstone's formidable, long-lived energy the 74-year-old Lord Jenkins was...