Sixth-formers underestimate costs of living
New undergraduates are naive about the cost of student life, according to a NatWest Student Money Matters Survey of 673 sixth formers. It compared their predictions with actual expenditure on going...
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Old degrees hold up in jobs market
Students spurning traditional academic degrees for newer vocational courses to enhance job prospects may be making a mistake. New data published today show prospects are just as good in traditional...
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Engineering a better future
(Photograph) - Before taking up his place at Imperial College, London, 19-year-old Richard McDowell is taking a year out of education with the Year In Industry scheme, which provides work-experience...
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V-cs urge UFI to plot clear course as Wright takes helm
Vice-chancellors warned that the funding arrangements for the University for Industry must be settled "as soon as possible" as the fourth head of the government's flagship lifelong learning project...
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Appointments
University of Wales Institute, Cardiff Antony Chapman, professor of psychology and pro vice-chancellor at the University of Leeds, has been appointed principal and chief executive from September 1....
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Pounds 60m carrot for dual plan
The English funding council this week issued two consultation documents: one on widening participation, the other on teaching excellence About Pounds 30 million of extra cash would go to universities...
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Pounds 60m carrot for dual plan
The English funding council this week issued two consultation documents: one on widening participation, the other on teaching excellence Universities are to be offered the incentive of additional...
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Museums in cash crisis
A NATIONAL Heritage study says that lack of funding is forcing many of Britain's museums to lay off staff, cut services and freeze vital projects. The report also claims that some local authority...
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British Library's research arm transfer
The Department of Culture, Media and Sport is proposing the transfer of the British Library's research arm to the Library and Information Commission. The department says the move will enhance the...
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Wonk's return
When cabinets reshuffle, the ripples shift their policy advisers and fixers around as well. No problem for Iain Mackenzie, former University of East Anglia student union president and Southampton...
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Insanity expert
University press officers are always keen to present problems as opportunities. But even so the University of Central England appeared to be accentuating the positive to an astonishing degree when it...
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Tavistock squelch
While the rest of London was wondering whether it was permissible to go to work in shorts and T-shirts last week, headquarters staff at the Association of University Teachers and the Committee of...
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Spooky office
It is tempting to read a lot into the recent move by the Qualifications, Curriculum and Assessment Authority into the former MI6 headquarters overlooking Buckingham Palace. Why, for example, does the...
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Political sex
While people pushing porn over the Internet are unlikely to be terribly selective about their choice of customers, it would still be interesting to know why those issuing an invitation to "View...
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Economically truish
Possibly taking their cue from memories of the furore created in the early 1980s when Sir Keith Joseph forced the Social Science Research Council to transform itself into the less trendy-lefty...