Secret Blair bid to boost top-up cause
Prime minister Tony Blair held a secret meeting this week with the leading candidates to introduce top-up fees in a bid to galvanise support for the policy amid growing opposition. Mr Blair called...
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Godzilla, Hamlet and Genghis Khan and the battle for human genes
An effort to bring order to the proliferation of names given to human genes has brought out proprietorial instincts in some scientists. The Human Genome Organisation gene nomenclature committee,...
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Clarke: FE vital to goal
The government has urged further education heads to suggest how colleges can help widen participation in higher education, after awarding the sector its "most generous funding settlement in living...
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New scheme could offer students more routes to higher education
Further education students may be able to take first-year university degree modules as part of a new overarching diploma proposed by the Association of Colleges, writes Tony Tysome. A blueprint for...
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Harvard makes U-turn and asks Paulin back
Harvard University has reversed its decision to withdraw an invitation to poet and Oxford University academic Tom Paulin - despite the president of Harvard's public support for the cancellation. It...
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Jodrell launches bid to build giant ear on heavens
Fields around Jodrell Bank could be planted with a dense forest of antenna in a bid to keep the iconic radio astronomy observatory in the forefront of world science. Scientists are drawing up plans...
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Diplomatic row erupts on Westminster course
Westminster University's academy for diplomats is at the centre of its own diplomatic row after international students complained about poor facilities and teaching standards. Postgraduate students...
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In the news: Ivor Crewe
Ivor Crewe, vice-chancellor of Essex University, has been elected president of Universities UK. He will take over from Roderick Floud in August 2003 and serve for two years. Professor Crewe said: "...
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Appointments
Andrew Dilnot , director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies and a Radio 4 presenter, will succeed Derek Wood as principal of St Hugh's College, Oxford; Frances Lannon , a fellow and history tutor at...
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Graduates say degrees leave them short of skills
New graduates lack three of the skills they judge most used in the workforce - time management, task juggling and verbal communication - a survey shows. The skills deficit is a surprise finding of...
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Next week
News • Out of step: military abandons Shrivenham for civilian universities Features • How can academics help tackle the transport crisis? • Is sports psychology a valid subject? Books • Ray Monk...
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Hull staff live on student budget
Four senior managers at Hull University spent a week living in student accommodation on a budget of just £24 to gain first-hand experience of their students' financial problems. The "students" were...
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Senior faculty triumph in bid to scupper London merger
A group of 13 senior staff, including some of University College London's most famous names, was credited with halting plans to merge with Imperial College this week. Merger talks were called off....
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Troubled Commonwealth Institute eyes Cambridge alliance
London's Commonwealth Institute has opened negotiations with Cambridge University to set up a pan-Commonwealth centre of excellence in education. The institute, which recently suffered a financial...
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Defiance grows in fees debate
Vice-chancellors throughout Wales and the Northeast of England have come out against the introduction of top-up fees. In a statement this week, heads of member institutions of the University of Wales...