Axed entry exams raise a storm
Greek education secretary Gera-simos Arsenis has announced that the Panhellenic examinations for university entrance are to be abolished with open entry from the year 2000. But he has not said where...
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Graduate tax dice dooms low paid to lifetime debt
Australians who take a five-year architecture degree may spend the next 55 years paying off their tuition fees, and still owe the federal government thousands of dollars, according to an analysis by...
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What's up? Too few docs
IF BRITAIN is to become self-sufficient in doctors up to 50 per cent more medics may have to be trained annually. Stephen Tomlinson, dean of Manchester University medical school and secretary of the...
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M25 belt tightening on FE cash
What does tertiary education do for London? Not a lot, says one report. In another of our series of regional focuses, THES reporters look for a sense of community within the M25 area. Greater London...
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Unions hail pensions climbdown
MINISTERS have postponed changes to early-retirement payments for lecturers in colleges and new universities in a climbdown heralded as a campaigning triumph by teaching unions. The proposed changes...
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Indian student uncorks varsity race row
An Indian student's attempt to discover why he was refused entry to the elite Cambridge University Food and Wine Society has left a distinctly bad taste in the mouth. Udi Goyal's investigation...
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Left alone
Given the Government's propensity for blaming almost anything that goes wrong on the last Labour government, led by reckless ultra-leftist James Callaghan, there is something quite touching about the...
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Cash to keep north's brains
Talented graduates are the target of a Pounds 500,000 initiative to find attractive career opportunities for them in County Durham and stop the brain drain from the north. Research commissioned by...
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Don's diary
Sunday. I travel to Birmingham to meet my minder for the week. I am researching decision-making by fire incident commanders and am based at the Fire Service College training establishment to...
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Serbian blames Uncle Sam
VOJISLAV Seselj, once a dissident academic and now leader of the extreme-nationalist Serbian Radical Party, has accused the United States of financing the Student Protest 96/97 movement. The leaders...
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Keep it simple and people will choose
THE POPULAR vision of the future of education tells us that before long the classical model of a university will be supplemented by a flowering of forms. Course lengths will vary from a weekend to...
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RAE achievers reap rewards
DUNDEE and St Andrews universities have emerged as the big winners in next year's Scottish funding allocations because of their success in the research assessment exercise. But the majority of the...
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Guest who?
Life isn't simple for anyone planning to invite politicians to events in the autumn, and things are especially tricky if they have to deal with the Department for Education and Employment. Take...
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Non-formula funding
Total non-formula funding for 1997/98 is Pounds 306 million, including Pounds 16 million which would previously have been allocated under DevR. This money will cover the same kinds of institutions...
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Paying for old sins
Gert-Rudolf Flick's endowment to Oxford University would be better employed relieving the suffering of those slave labourers who survived his grandfather's wartime exploitation in Nazi Germany. The...