Lost tongues
Fewer British students are signing up for foreign language degrees at university, according to figures from Surrey University. Statistics from UCAS, the applications body, show that last year only 2,...
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German award
The President of the German Federal Republic, Roman Herzog, has awarded the Commander's Cross of the German Order of Merit to Lord Bullock, Founding Master of St Catherine's College, Oxford, and the...
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Self-control of quality assurance assured
The three-year battle for control of the quality assurance process has been won by the universities. Their victory over the Higher Education Funding Council for England was confirmed last week when...
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The battle's won
Newbattle Abbey College, Scotland's sole adult residential college whose core funding was axed by Government in 1989, is this week relaunching two full-time diploma courses. It has survived for the...
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Carry on assessing . . .
While some observers are predicting that next year's research assessment exercise will be the last, the man most likely to have the Government's ear on the subject does not agree. "I would bet a...
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Natfhe aims for local victories
Natfhe, the university and college lecturers' union, is to shift all its further education resources into fighting local disputes, including those over pay, because of the stalemate in national...
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Down the mine
The University of Exeter's Camborne school of mines is hoping to attract more students thanks to a Government-backed campaign aimed at addressing a shortage of mining engineers. The college has its...
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DEE cuts top staff by a third
A senior management shake-up in the new Department for Education and Employment will involve cutting the number of top civil servant posts by a third, the Government announced this week. A new...
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Wave of enthusiasm
Suzanne Docherty, a student at St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College, has revealed in the student edition of the British Medical Journal that preclinical lectures can be more exciting than...
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Different strokes
The latest term of abuse among US academics, according to psychologist Stuart Anstiss, is a "Monet" - "someone who looks good from a distance but a mess from close up". He told a meeting that he had...
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Horse player
Does departing HEFCE chief Graeme Davies have an unrevealed enthusiasm for four-legged friends? A few weeks before his arrival as vice chancellor of the University of Glasgow, the place is raising...
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Don't panic
(Photograph) - Linda Cowan, senior information and recruitment officer at the University of Abertay Dundee, shows off the university's new automated inquiry system on the World Wide Web. Prospective...
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Economic dry
Alumni to be proud of no 10: Trevor Newton, the Yorkshire Water chief whose personal hygiene became the subject of disbelieving national scrutiny last week, may or may not have learned his unique...