Dental pain gain
Greenfield also had a handy hint, based on United States biorhythm research, on dealing with dental pain: go for a lunchtime appointment. This is the point at which people subjected to cold and...
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Sleep talking
Good news for the less thrilling lecturers in academic life from Oxford's Susan Greenfield, speaking on consciousness at the Royal Society of Arts. Answering a questioner who admitted to not having...
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Learning launch
Hundreds of delegates from across Britain gathered in Edinburgh yesterday for the UK launch of the European Year of Lifelong Learning attended by European commissioner Edith Cresson. The United...
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Promo prizes
The winner of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council's second science communicator award will receive a Pounds 3,000 prize. This year there is a new category for postgraduates...
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How to net a job
An Internet employment exchange is due to go on line at Loughborough University student union this week enabling students to seek out in-house vacation jobs. Academic departments "post" their job...
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FE funding overhaul ahead
Radical changes in the way higher education is funded in further education colleges are to be considered by funding council chiefs. Proposals contained in a report published this week call for...
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Colleges hit by Pounds 1.4m bill
Three colleges in the Northeast have been left with a bill of more than Pounds 1.4 million after losing a High Court battle with Cleveland County Council. The colleges are not the first to dispute...
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Rise and shine en Provence
A top American business school is courting British and European students by setting up a base in the Provence region of France. Northwestern University's J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management...
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Foreign lessons for Ron
Sir Ron Dearing will look abroad to answer key questions facing the Robbins-style higher education inquiry launched this week. Sir Ron, who is to head the inquiry, said that other countries were...
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Cut pages
The Libraries Association is to survey library heads in the higher education sector on the effects of university funding cuts. The results will be published in the spring or early summer. It fears...
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LibDems want cap on tuition
Tuition fees should be capped and institutions which overcharge for courses should be fined, the Liberal Democrats said this week. Unveiling his party's "lifelong learning" policy paper, Paddy...
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Way off target
The much-trumpeted Modern Apprenticeship scheme is failing to take off according to the latest Government figures. Currently, 15,000 young people are pursuing a national vocational qualification...
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糖心Vlogrton ushered into Cambridge elite
糖心Vlogrton College, a specialist teacher training institution in Cambridge, is to become more like other Cambridge colleges after being given the go-ahead to admit students for the university's...
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Threat of Internet libel recedes for institutions
The threat of universities being sued for defamatory comments put on the Internet by their students or employees has receded. Conversely, anyone libelled by a university's employee or student, using...
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Historian goes shopping for FBI
A British history professor played a central role in an elaborate FBI sting to catch a Smithsonian curator selling military artifacts from the United States' national collection, it has been revealed...