On the move
Chris Humphries , director-general of the British Chambers of Commerce and former chairman of the National Skills Taskforce, has been appointed director-general of awarding body City and Guilds . He...
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Don's Diary: Michael Phillips
Saturday Installation at Tate Britain. It is two years since being invited as a guest curator to recreate Blake's life and work in Lambeth during the 1790s. We have been lucky, obtaining more than...
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Cast into the pit
Cheltenham ladies and gentlemen have been yelling fire and brimstone over the conversion of a former Baptist church into a student pub. They have been incensed not so much by the transformation of a...
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Cabinet told to study
Seventy-five senior Ethiopian government staff graduated from the Open University this week, after being ordered to study for an OU master of business administration degree by prime minister Meles...
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Clinton for chancellor?
Rumours that President Clinton is interested in becoming chancellor of Oxford University have surprised Oxford, as a vacancy will only arise if the present chancellor Lord Jenkins dies or...
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Offering Ikareer advice
Five Dundee University medical students who won a competition run by Ikea in Edinburgh to live in the store showroom for a weekend found themselves advising a customer on more than assembling shelves...
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Glittering prizes
The Institute of Physics has made the following awards for 2001: the Glazebrook Medal and Prize to Colin Webb , University of Oxford, for his leading role in the organisation and promotion of laser...
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World View: It's the narrative, stupid
Seeing his daughter campaign with gusto has drawn Harvey Kaye wholeheartedly into an odd election Apparently (and chillingly), Texas governor George W. Bush may become the next president of the...
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Eyewitness
Twenty-five years ago 350,000 Moroccans marched into the Spanish Sahara and occupied it. This so-called Green March was the start of a long-running post-colonial dispute over the desert homeland of...
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World Watch
Paris Information technologies are valuable education tools, but they must improve access in poor as well as developed nations, the seventh Unesco/non-governmental organisations consultation on...
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Drop-out rates shock Spain
Almost half of Spanish students drop out before completing their first three years of study. For those students who make it to their final year, the success rate improves with only a 25-30 per cent...
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Dutch adopt tiered degrees
The Netherlands is to introduce the "Bama", or Anglo-Saxon degree system. From the start of the academic year 2002, graduates will be able to adopt the title of "bachelor" or "master" in addition to...
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Romany institute opened
Romany groups in the Czech Republic last week opened an institute that will provide information on the housing, education and employment conditions of the country's Romanies. It will also train...
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Canada and the UK tackle visa delay
David Jobbins and Philip Fine at the Commonwealth education ministers' meeting, Halifax. A plan to overcome visa problems encountered by some students on overseas work placements has been drawn up by...
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Education action plan adopted
David Jobbins and Philip Fine at the Commonwealth education ministers' meeting, Halifax. Commonwealth education ministers have put higher education at the centre of a ground-breaking statement that...