Area Boy
(Photograph) - Area Boy: Leeds University is sponsoring a new play by Nigerian author Wole Soyinka, Nobel prizewinner and Leeds graduate, which is premiered at the West Yorkshire Playhouse until...
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Shephard rounds on CBI
Top business leaders were lambasted by Gillian Shephard, Secretary of State for Education and Employment, this week for failing to give a clear signal about what employers want from the higher...
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This way out?
(Photograph) - This way out? The London School of Economics' decision-making process over whether to bid for the soon-to-be-vacant Bart's Hospital site will take an important step forward next week...
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Constitutions are fine, Nolan told
Additional safeguards against impropriety in the running of universities are not necessary, the Nolan Committee was told by university chairmen this week. In recent cases where allegations of...
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Food for thought
The British Association for the Advancement of Science this week launched its bid to write a youth science White Paper with a public debate on food production at Surrey University. The debate is the...
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Recycling
(Photograph) - Recycling: Darren Speck, a first-year engineering student at Warwick University, seen here with a sculpture, won the BTEC engineering student of the year award last year with his...
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Staff query colleagues' exit
Staff at Coventry University's school of engineering want an independent inquiry into the way the institution's senior management handled disciplinary proceedings brought against two professors, who...
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GNVQ plan doubts
Higher education quality watchdogs have questioned the need for new higher-level General National Vocational Qualifications. Work already under way on defining academic, vocational and personal...
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Union fury over pension privatisation
Unions in further and higher education and across the civil service reacted with anger this week at the Government's announcement that the running of the Teachers' Superannuation Scheme is to be...
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Something fishy
A real catch for the Southampton Oceanography Centre must have been Dr Peter Herring, who works on pelagic biology there. Rumour has it he is known as "kipper" to his mates. But he is not alone and...
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Portillo peace
Perhaps student militancy is not as dead as we thought if the mere fact of "Portillo Visit Passes Peacefully" is considered worthy of headlining in Imperial College's student newspaper Felix.
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Pembroke pair
Alumni to be proud of nos 17 and 18 are the chief protagonists in Dulwich College's recent travails. On the one hand Anthony Verity, college master from 1986 until last week when he was forced to...
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Chemists raise lab alarm
Top chemists in industry and academe have warned the Government that deterioration of laboratory equipment in universities is rapidly approaching "crisis proportions" and that an urgent national...
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Stars in their eyes and good prospects
Doctorate programmes in particle physics and astronomy attract high calibre students and those qualifying have little difficulty in getting jobs, according to a study to be published soon, writes Kam...
