Oxbridge statistics point to class bias
Accusations of elitism at Cambridge and Oxford resurfaced this week as the latest figures revealed that, proportionately, white public school boys still stand a far better chance than any other group...
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Chatham House loses first female director
Chris Gamble, the first female director of the Royal Institute of International Affairs at Chatham House, is to resign just two years after taking the job. Dr Gamble, who is leaving to spend more...
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Dropout rate hits nursing targets
Universities and colleges must improve clinical placements and cut dropout rates if they are to meet targets for increasing the number of student nurses, according to a report from the Royal College...
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College ethos is key to success
The ethos and management style of a further education college has a greater impact on students' achievements than student origin, researchers have concluded. A report on a study by the Learning and...
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Offbeat sect offers theology degree
A Christian fundamentalist church that believes in raising the dead is offering degree courses in theology. The Peniel Pentecostal Church, at the centre of political controversy in Brentwood, Essex,...
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Queen's, Ulster win £40m funding
Six research projects are to benefit from a £40 million investment under the government's Support Programme for University Research in Northern Ireland. Earlier this year, Sean Farren, minister for...
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Whistleblowers: Exeter v-c criticised
The lord chancellor has criticised Exeter University vice-chancellor Sir Geoffrey Holland for a "perverse and unreasonable" decision to block a grievance hearing for one of his senior staff. Ruling...
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Analysis: listening, but not yet doing
Race equality for academic staff has become a priority for vice-chancellors, funding councils and trade unions in the past 18 months. The publication of the McPherson report into black teenager...
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Don's Diary
Thursday, week one High up Mount Musallah in Bulgaria, home of Orpheus and scene of his dismemberment by angry Thracian women - far, far from the port-encrusted cloisters with their relentless...
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Glittering prizes
The following have been elected to the Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences: Ash Amin , University of Durham; Sara Arber , University of Surrey; Sue Atkins , Cabinet Office; George...
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In the news: Kevin Warwick
Not all his fellow scientists were happy when Kevin Warwick was chosen to give the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, which started this week. Some responded by calling Reading University's...
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Fat lady sings
Knives were sharpened for the recent final of the University Chefs' Challenge 2000 in London, in which 16 residential and catering services teams competed to cook a meal within a set time, in front...
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Bounced out for good
Getting thrown out of Liverpool University for taking part in a 1970s student protest was the best thing that ever happened to him, Channel 4 frontman Jon Snow told the university's student newspaper...
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www.getrichnow.com
Students in need of the odd penny for tuition fees should forget Who Wants To Be a Millionaire? and get into the dotcom spirit. A competition, launchit2001.com, has identified universities as a...
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Clinton teases out visit
President Clinton has turned out to be a bit of a tease as far as British universities go. After weeks of hinting at a closer relationship with Oxford - with rumours that he will return to his alma...