Pressure for Nottingham suicide inquiry continues
Nottingham University is under renewed pressure to hold an independent inquiry into the suicide of politics professor David Regan. The university's council and senate this month rejected the idea...
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Abbey resumes full-time diploma habit
Newbattle Abbey College, Scotland's sole residential adult education college, whose core funding was axed by Government in 1989, will this year restore two full-time diploma courses. Since 1989, the...
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Cardiff compact sealed
Cardiff Institute of Higher Education has just launched a compact with eight schools in South Glamorgan which should make degree and diploma courses more accessible to inner city pupils. Based on an...
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Decline of British social science sets in
The international representation of United Kingdom-authored papers, articles, notes and reviews in social science has declined markedly since 1985, according to a bibliometric analysis by researchers...
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The grass could be greener
Britain needs a complete rethink of the way it sees rural areas, according to Philip Lowe, director of the Centre for Rural Economy at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. The centre, which...
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Civil servants' divided health
The health gap between social classes could in part result from differences in psychological well-being, according to a leading epidemiologist. Psychological factors may cause physical changes that...
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Destination USA for students
Overseas students are still flocking to the United States. Universities and colleges admitted an all-time high of almost 450,000 in the academic year 1993/94, but the rate of increase is slowing down...
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France may restrict entry rights
A report on the future of French universities, commissioned by higher education minister Francois Fillon, raised a storm of protest when its contents were leaked to the press. Mr Fillon has now...
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Italy opts for state of academics
Half of the new Italian government - ten ministers out of 20 - are full-time or part-time university teachers. Not surprisingly, the new administration was immediately called il governo dei...
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Cuts put brake on expansion
Israel's minister of education, Amnon Rubinstein, was this week trying to find savings of 151 million shekels (Pounds 33.5 million) in his ministry's spending to meet government expenditure cuts...
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The appliance of science potential
Science minister David Hunt announced the allocation of the Pounds 1.3 billion science budget yesterday. Mark Richmond argues against Government attempts to micro-manage research. It is now nearly...
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The student experience: funding. . .
Despite all the recent coverage of student funding - whether polls, politicians-in-search-of-a-policy or the more considered views to be found in your columns, there is a deafening silence from those...
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Don's Diary
MONDAY. (Week 1, London to Nairobi). Heathrow departure for Nairobi - a conference trip to Sri Lanka has subtly expanded to a five-week world tour. First stop is the Kenya Forestry Research Institute...
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All power to the network, please
Academics are used to being pilloried for being out of touch. But in two rather important ways their normal working methods may be harbingers of the future for the rest of society. The first is JANET...