When a refugee is stranded in funding limbo
Changes to overseas student fees and awards rules will exclude asylum seekers, warns Michael Brophy. Given the number of stories and reports in the media about the plight of Rwandan, Bosnian and...
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Partners for better not worse
Phil Walkling wants improved quality control of HE in FE colleges. The English higher education funding and quality councils have each recently produced reports on the relationship between higher...
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Humane behaviour
During the past few years there has been a discernible shift in popular attitudes towards the social sciences, accelerated by government consultations about national competitiveness and technology...
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Outcry over bid to control patent rights
The Wellcome Trust, Britain's biggest research charity, has delayed the announcement of plans to control intellectual property rights following an outcry from universities. The charity was to...
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Punting for Cambridge
A summer school for inner-city, state-educated, ethnic minority pupils - with little or no post-16 education - was held at Cambridge University last week. Twenty pupils from schools in London and the...
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Jungians welcomed into fold
The famous rift between Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung is healing - and it is happening in Colchester, according to one of the joint holders of the country's first chair in Jungian analysis. The...
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Top Welsh post
Keith Robbins, vice chancellor of Lampeter, will become senior vice chancellor of the University of Wales today. He will serve for three years and chair many of the federal university's committees,...
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Greenwich awards
The University of Greenwich has earmarked Pounds 50,000 to introduce Pounds 250 tax-free scholarships for all its undergraduate courses this year. The "Millennium" awards will be presented to...
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Mental block
The Royal College of Psychiatrists says that very little has improved in the conditions for mental health patients in London over the past year. Paul Lelliott, director of the Royal College of...
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Logical switch
Teenagers should study logic and rhetoric as part of a new baccalaureate-style diploma, the Association of University and College Lecturers has proposed. The union says A levels should be replaced...
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Cash to keep north's brains
Talented graduates are the target of a Pounds 500,000 initiative to find attractive career opportunities for them in County Durham and stop the brain drain from the north. Research commissioned by...
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Chile first for satellite
Chile's first satellite, built and designed by engineers at Surrey University, was launched into space from a site in Russia earlier this week. Ed Milton, general manager of the University's Surrey...
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Mystery of star pupil's rejection
A senior lecturer at Staffordshire University has called medical schools' selection processes into question after his son's four As at A level brought him 20 rejections. Mohammed Al-Mousawi is...
