Mandela trap
It seems that the National Union of Students' London headquarters has been possessed by the lift from hell. A group of student innocents had their recent day trip to the Nelson Mandela nerve centre...
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New year, new government?
(Photograph) - New year, new government? Serbian students continued their protests against the Milosevic government this week as more than 500,000 demonstrators celebrated the Orthodox new year in...
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Scots protest at pay with strings
Glasgow Caledonian University was one of 13 Scottish universities and colleges hit by strike action this week as unions protested against a pay offer linking a 2.5 per cent rise to changes in...
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Said site 'never had a chance'
OXFORD University spent months fighting to build a Pounds 40-million business school on a green-field site that local planners had effectively ruled out before the project was even announced publicly...
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Questioners apologise for Dunblane letter
BIRMINGHAM and Wolverhampton universities were at loggerheads this week over who was responsible for a controversial questionnaire sent to residents of Dunblane, where 16 children and their teacher...
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Ashdown unveils People First policy
Paddy Ashdown, the Liberal Democrat leader, has promised "clear, costed commitments for specific goals" in education. Better training and adult education were among the targets in a "people first"...
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Academy calls for engineering reform
The Royal Academy of Engineering will call today for a radical restructuring of engineering degrees to meet demand from the job market. An academy study wants to brush "traditional attitudes" aside...
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Employers praise colleges' role in skill training
Employers' demand for skilled workers is still rising and universities and colleges are best at delivering what they require, according to a report from the Department of Education and Employment...
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Medical medium
Prepare for the latest horror story on health. Ken Begg, senior scientific officer at an Edinburgh University Medical Research Council unit, is about to publish his latest medical thriller. Dr Begg,...
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Inhumane geography
Delegates at last week's Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers annual conference at Exeter University found they had a new fan, local professor of education Ted Wragg....
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Rave review
It is clearly time for the society's Young Rural Researchers to change their name. One of its members, Elizabeth Hyde, a Bristol University PhD student, has been researching drug-taking by 14 to 20-...
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Caius cut
With constituent parts of the universities of London and Wales periodically interested in secession, can our other collegiate institutions be far behind? One alumnus of Gonville and Caius College,...
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Branson's pickle
Richard Branson may have survived the premature end to his round-the-world ballooning bid, but there was no such luck for equipment from the University of East Anglia's school of environmental...
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Street wise: Andy Loughe
(Photograph) - Street wise: Andy Loughe hopes to take the education route out of homelessness via Liverpool University
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Roof justice
Roof justice: police escorted these huge sheets of roofing on their journey from Merseyside to the University of Hertfordshire last week. The sheets will shield a Pounds 16 million Learning Resource...