Foreign lessons for Ron
Sir Ron Dearing will look abroad to answer key questions facing the Robbins-style higher education inquiry launched this week. Sir Ron, who is to head the inquiry, said that other countries were...
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FE funding overhaul ahead
Radical changes in the way higher education is funded in further education colleges are to be considered by funding council chiefs. Proposals contained in a report published this week call for...
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Promo prizes
The winner of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council's second science communicator award will receive a Pounds 3,000 prize. This year there is a new category for postgraduates...
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Dental pain gain
Greenfield also had a handy hint, based on United States biorhythm research, on dealing with dental pain: go for a lunchtime appointment. This is the point at which people subjected to cold and...
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Too many Forman
Bipartisanship may rule, but the Commons debate on Education Secretary Gillian Shephard's inquiry still threw up one alarming idea as former higher education minister Nigel Forman suggested that the...
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Christians and lions
The American magazine, Sports Illustrated, reports that a college basketball team has recently had two games abandoned - the first because one of its players brandished a chair and threatened a...
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What a drag net
The old joke about there being only five education news stories (that many?), with their apparent diversity merely variations upon common themes came to several minds last week as the "Essays on the...
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Selected viewing
Alumni to be proud of nos 32 and 33 are a couple of Scottish politicians. First is Ian Lang, president of the Board of Trade, who had eight days to browse through the Scott report and managed only to...
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Does the Rt Hon Lady. . .
. . . recognise that universities . . . are independent of the Government, and that they have a right . . . to take appropriate steps to secure the resources they need to underpin the quality of...
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Oh s-t!
Scientists who criticise Hollywood's depiction of epidemics should realise that "witchcraft science" will always dominate the movies, says Christopher Foreman, a political scientist at the Brookings...
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Clock watcher
(Photograph) - Clock watcher: Maxim Kotchoubeyev, a senior official from the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, learns the latest about restoration of clocks, fine ceramics and metalwork at West Dean...
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Clarke degree courts controversy
The dispute about Nottingham Trent's proposal to award Chancellor of the Exchequer Kenneth Clarke an honorary degree has prompted the university to take the "unprecedented step" of breaking the...
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Ousted president in union defeat
Mags Whelan, the ousted student president who is threatening legal action against Oxford Brookes University student union, has sparked further upset after losing the latest leadership election....
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Tomorrow's tonic or today's bitter pill?
Simon Targett discovers how, despite a recent dip in the share price of a major biotech firm, Britain's academic spin-off companies are still on to a good thing. Just three weeks ago the share price...