Full fees put off Danish visitors
Danish students in Britain are paying full tuition fees because they are deemed to receive too much money from their own government. International student officers from British universities,...
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Campus clash over top-up fees
Pressure mounted this week for a second Dearing-style independent review of higher education, as vice-chancellors and students set a collision course over top-up fees. Student union leaders who...
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Students fail to repay emergency loans
* Students owe universities thousands of pounds in emergency loans made to tide them over until their Student Loans Company cheques arrived last term. At Staffordshire University some 150 students...
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Colleges stick to 3% staff pay rises
* Three-quarters of colleges awarded staff a pay rise of 3 per cent or more last year, according to an Association of Colleges survey. It found that "almost" nine in ten colleges made a pay award for...
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Potter makes Pounds 65m from Psion share sale
(Photograph) - * David Potter (above), chairman of Psion, has sold just over 1 per cent of his shares in the company for more than Pounds 65 million. He still owns 14 per cent. Dr Potter left...
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Leeds gets tough on lecturer's race speech
* Frank Ellis, the Leeds University academic due to address an extreme right conference in the United States, has been denied leave to attend. Dr Ellis, a Russian and Slavonic studies lecturer, was...
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Over-25s plump for vocational study
* Most students taking vocational courses in Scotland's 47 further education colleges are 25 and over, according to figures from the Scottish Further Education Funding Council. The number of...
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TGWU puts in claim for Pounds 5 an hour
* The first group of support staff to submit a claim in this year's pay round has asked for a minimum Pounds 5 an hour and a shorter working week. The Transport and General Workers Union, which...
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Business student loses damages claim
* A former mature student who blamed the University of North-umbria after she failed her degree has lost her claim for Pounds 20,000 in damages. Sue Finch, aged 46, who spent a year studying for a...
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The great unwashed dip into soap suds
* Students have cleaned up their shabby, unwashed image, according to a Visa Cash survey, which claims that today's students do at least two loads of laundry a week. While 20 per cent of male...
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Single-sex college sticks to women
* Women students at the University of Durham's only single-sex college, St Mary's, protested this week over management talks on making the college mixed. The university senate decided on Tuesday to...
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Scientists look into vacuums in space
* Scientists from a United Kingdom-led consortium of universities are planning to explore the "inner space" of vacuums with a probe in orbit around the Earth. The Casimir mission would seek to...
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Kingston student released on bail
* Kingston University student Julie-Ann Davies, a supporter of renegade M15 officer David Shayler who was questioned over an alleged breach of the Official Secrets Act, has been released on police...
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Full-time MBAs earn most
* MBA graduates from part-time and distance-learning courses outnumber those on full-time courses, the Association of MBAs reports. But students on two-year full-time courses command higher salaries...
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Backing up backs
The Royal Military College of Science, part of Cranfield University, has developed an artificial neural network that can accurately diagnose lower back pain complaints from a given set of symptoms....