HEFCE urges restraint on cuts
MINISTERS must keep higher education cuts down to 1 per cent in future years, say funding chiefs. Anything more would have "unacceptable implications for quality and standards". Responding to Dearing...
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Fees win sighted
OXFORD and Cambridge universities may have won their battle to keep much of the additional Pounds 35 million they receive through college fees. Cambridge vice chancellor Alex Broers said this week: "...
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On the ball
(Photograph) - On the ball: the first cohort of students on Liverpool University's masters in business administration degree dealing with football, visit Anfield. Brian Hall, the club's public...
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Christmas decision for Royal Observatory
A final decision on the future of the Royal Greenwich Observatory will be made before Christmas, the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council says. Its council will decide whether it can...
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UK Nobel surprize
(Photograph) - A BRITISH scientist is the joint winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. This is the second year in which Britain has won it. John Walker, aged 56, pictured above, a senior scientist...
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Drastic fall in numbers
APPLICATIONS to universities for 1998 are down 16 per cent compared to this time last year. This will be the first year in which fees will be charged and maintenance grants will start to be phased...
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Minister's vision
A DECLINE in the proportion of students studying science and engineering at British universities in the future is inevitable according to Tessa Blackstone, minister for higher education, who adds...
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Myth of urban drop-out
Myths about "drop-outs" from council housing estates must be exploded if the government's lifelong learning revolution is to succeed, the Further Education Development Agency has warned. FEDA...
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Oxbridge turns guns on report
Oxford and Cambridge universities lead a chorus of criticism in the latest Dearing submissions CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY SIR Ron Dearing's proposed quality assurance regime could make a "costly,...
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Red tape hitch to fees
The European Commission has warned that too much red tape from fee-charging for higher education in Britain could lead to legal challenges. The office of Mario Monti, the commissioner with...
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Mum sued for student living costs
An Aberdeen University law student this week went to court to force his estranged mother to contribute Pounds 400 a month towards his living costs at university. Patrick Macdonald, 20, went to live...
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Winning algebraic formula
THE Algebra that underlies derivatives trading has won two United States professors the Nobel prize for economics. The $1 million (Pounds 600,000) prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences...
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Laser light that cools atoms
A method of cooling and trapping atoms using laser light has won this year's Nobel prize in physics for Steven Chu of Stanford University, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji of the College de France and Ecole...
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Killer protein tracked down
Biochemist Stanley Prusiner of the University of California at San Francisco won this year's Nobel prize for medicine for discovering prions, the infectious proteins thought to destroy the brains of...
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Birkbeck gets a master to replace Blackstone
Tim O'Shea has replaced Tessa Blackstone as master of Birkbeck College. Professor of information technology and pro-vice chancellor at the Open University, he will take over in January. Richard Evans...