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...
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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.