Super sleuths fight heavy crimewave
Student super sleuths are springing into action on university campuses around the world in an attempt to combat crime. Last month Southampton University hosted the first international congress on...
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Nolan turns attentions to governor pay
Lord Nolan's Committee on Standards in Public Life has denied it is set to call for an end to payments for quango members, including those on the boards of further and higher education funding...
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Yin and Yang
But it is not just the human way with words that entertains us. The Political Studies Association in Glasgow was at the mercy of a berserk computer spellchecker. PSA executive member Jeremy Jennings...
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Applied Cymru
One of the fascinations of Welsh universities is the extent of their bilingualism, leading to unfamiliar terminology for familiar functions. As you might expect the Welsh language has its own...
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V-cs bash fees cut
The Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals has attacked Government plans to cut funding for foreign students who take part of their course in the United Kingdom. The committee said the move to...
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English campaign
The Association of Graduate Recruiters has given its support to the Better English Campaign launched this week. The association said that communication, both verbal and written, is the most important...
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Higher in further?
Sir Ron Dearing has hinted that he is keen to examine the potential of developing more higher education in further education colleges as part of his inquiry. Speaking at a conference at the...
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Kirk out for hard-up Scotties
Increasing student hardship has contributed to a dramatic 40 per cent drop in the number of candidates applying to train for the ministry, the Church of Scotland believes. The committee on education...
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Graduate debts jump by third in a year
Graduate debt has jumped by nearly a third in one year with former students owing an average of Pounds 3,000, according to the latest Barclays Bank survey. The bank found that graduates, surveyed in...
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Pay may depend on profit
Profit-related pay was seized on by more than 80 universities this week as a formula which could save jobs while answering academics' dem-ands for above-inflation salary rises. A "significant number...
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V-c's FE appointment fuels merger talk
Further education's top job is to go to David Melville, vice chancellor of Middlesex University, who will take over as chief executive of the Further Education Funding Council, writes Alison Utley....
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Brian Fender
(Photograph) - Enough is enough: Brian Fender, chief executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England told gloomy vice chancellors this week at the council's annual conference in Telford...
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'Racist' IQ book withdrawn
A major publisher made the unprecedented move of withdrawing a book the day before publication this week following controversial comments by its author about IQ and race. A statement from Wiley said...
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Fungi happening at the forum
An estimated 1.5 million species of fungi could greatly benefit medicine, industry and pollution control, according to the British Mycological Society, which held its centenary symposium at Sheffield...