Teacher training faces crisis
Teacher training in universities and colleges is facing a financial crisis which could prove "unmanageable", education heads warned this week. Intake targets and funding allocations were sent by the...
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Pounds 3m multimedia contest as grants cut
Universities are invited to join with companies in a multimedia competition launched this week by science and technology minister Ian Taylor as part of the Government's Pounds 35 million Information...
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Excellent Exeter
Teaching quality at the University of Exeter's School of English has been regraded as "excellent" by assessors from the Higher Education Funding Council for England. Assessors revisited the school...
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Love thy staff
Unison chose Valentine's Day to launch a campaign for better pay for its 40,000 members in universities and colleges. Its pay claim, delivered in pink Valentine cards, is for a substantial flat rate...
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Sea change: Amanda Vincent, zoologist at Oxford University
(Photograph) - Sea change: Amanda Vincent, zoologist at Oxford University, says that seahorse populations around the world are collapsing as people use them for aphrodisiacs, aquariums and especially...
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No call to cut places
Only one university has asked to give up some of its student numbers in response to an invitation to all institutions from the Higher Education Funding Council for England. In the light of severe...
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Serbs forge London link
An academic link between a British and a Serbian university has been forged for the first time since war in the Balkans began, writes Milica Pesic. The Centre for the Study of Democracy at the...
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Plea for peaceline campus
Ulster University sought to inject a renewed sense of urgency into its plans for a so called peaceline campus this week, as the peace process in Northern Ireland limped on amid the threat of further...
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Rent split
A clash of campaigns at Liverpool University has left student leaders with a tricky conundrum. The Student's Guild is backing a rent strike by nearly 200 students protesting at conditions in some...
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Yorkie bar
Lord Jenkins, chancellor of the University of Oxford, was writing women out of history last week at the opening of the extension to the university's Ashmolean Museum. He described an earlier Duke of...
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Pillars of unwisdom
However, the event did prove the value of academic dress on formal occasions. The pillars in the museum crypt, a former workshop now reopened as the museum cafe, had been cleaned but not sealed, and...
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Great Scott
You just cannot keep vice chancellors out of the news. Following on from the excitement over the CVCP levy threat comes the furore over the report on arms sales to Iraq whose author Sir Richard Scott...
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Dog-fancier: Wolverhampton University student Melanie Adkins
(Photograph) - Dog-fancier: Wolverhampton University student Melanie Adkins with one of her works of art. Seven students and four members of staff of the university's school of art and design...
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Ex-MP Gould in NZ house attack
New Zealand. Students have questioned the NZ$79,000 (Pounds 35,000) cost of renovations to the house of Bryan Gould, Waikato University vice chancellor and former British Labour MP - criticism he has...