Pension funds change horses
Three Hong Kong universities are racing to avert a cash crisis involving their multi-billion dollar retirement funds after the government introduced new regulations on pension plans. The rules have...
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Lecturers for hire move in on universities
The agency preparing a national database of self-employed college lecturers for hire is planning to move into higher education. Education Lecturing Services aims to register up to 400,000 lecturers...
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Bungle of County Hall sale
The Government's embarrassment over the sale of County Hall to a Japanese property group which may now not develop it was inflicted by their acceptance of narrow commercial criteria for the sale, a...
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Avril Olof
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Ideas can 'work both ways' for dynamic Commonwealth
Higher education must now capitalise on the strengths of both developed and developing institutions, according to Chief Emeka Anyaoku, secretary general of the Commonwealth. Chief Anyaoku, speaking...
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Bar warns of market misery
The Bar Council began talks on opening up training for would-be barristers this week with a warning that a limit might be set on the market. Members of the council agreed last year to end the Bar...
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Lakeland to be wired for learning
(Photograph) - An electronic library spanning hundreds of miles could soon allow some of Britain's most cut-off communities to key into higher education, according to Labour MP Dale Campbell-Savours...
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Pressing question
The nation's journalists are clearly in a ferment over Edinburgh University's support for the city's international science festival, and the role it sees for itself in supporting the local and...
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Italian job
Should the University of Poppleton's Dr Piercemuller lose his berth after the next research assessment and, forsaking the obvious refuge of the quality industry, choose instead to make his de facto...
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Durham okays Gemini systems
Two telescopes to be built in Hawaii and Chile have received a technical boost from Durham University scientists who have successfully tested the ambitious optical systems intended for them. The...
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Modern approach to crime 'medieval'
Crime should be seen and treated as a disease, according to the doctor who found the cure for tuberculosis 40 years ago. Sir John Crofton, who this week received the City of Edinburgh District...
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Wales' botanic idea takes root
Wales is likely to emulate England and Scotland in having a national botanic garden following support from Secretary of State John Redwood. Four areas have been shortlisted as potential sites for the...
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Pounds 5.3m centre is jewel in Midlands' crown
Ministers in search of a model for a working partnership between higher education and industry may be encouraged by recent developments in Birmingham's "jewellery quarter". Last week, the University...
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Alex Frost
(Photograph) - Face to face: Alex Frost, a third-year fine art student at Staffordshire University confronts one of the pieces at the university's exhibition of students' work entitled 'Hung, Drawn...
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Murphy to fight fee contributions
Jim Murphy, president of the National Union of Students, will campaign against fee contributions in the review of student funding backed by four-fifths of delegates to conference last week. But Mr...