AUT attack on contract abuse
Lecturers this week accused universities of breaking national agreements on the employment of contract staff. The Association of University Teachers' attack is based on a survey of contract...
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Terrorist threat denied
The London School of Economics has strongly denied allegations that it is a recruiting ground for Muslim terrorists. A spokesman for the Indian High Commission in London this week named only one...
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Welsh funding goes its own way
The Higher Education Funding Council for Wales has set out its plans for the next three years in a corporate strategy which is increasingly distinctive from that of its English counterpart. The...
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V-cs bid for cash to invest in research
Vice chancellors are set to make research and teaching infrastructure a priority in their future public spending bids. The Council of the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals, meeting today,...
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Canny lassies
The proportion of Scottish pupils staying on in the sixth year has more than doubled over ten years, from 20.5 per cent in 1983 to 41.7 per cent in 1993. Forty-eight per cent of female school leavers...
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Leaked loans plans dismissed
Economists have dismissed two models for privatising the student loans scheme being considered by the Government as financially and politically unattractive both to students and the private sector....
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Banner man
(Photograph) - NUS president Jim Murphy at Battersea Park, London, for this week's demonstration against the replacement of student grants by loans. NUS stewards traded hundreds of these red placards...
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Target failure
The Government's target for half of all employers with more than 200 employees to achieve the Investors in People training standard by 1996 is unlikely to be reached, the Labour Party claimed this...
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Teens on the up
The proportion of 16 to 18-year olds participating in education rose to 67 per cent in 1992/93 -- a 3 percentage point rise on the previous year and 14 percentage points up on 1982/83, according to...
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In bloom
(Photograph) - In bloom: Colin Muir of the University of Bournemouth models a stone acanthus leaf as part of the university's architectural conservation work. As well as being one of the winners of...
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First and last
(Photograph) - First and last: the launch of Inter-Arc, an electronic media network that forms part of the Arc Atlantique project promoting tourism, maritime communications and the environment, took...
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Past Masters
David Weatherall pays tribute to the man who asked him to eat asparagus in the name of research, Cyril Clarke When I obtained my medical degree from Liverpool University in 1956 I was, as cell...
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Remember, remember November
The current debate about the university year, provoked by the move towards modular courses and semester-based teaching, has focused on an early September start. But why is nobody taking seriously the...