Parliament urged to implement all of Cubie
Olga Wojtas on the latest reactions to the Cubie report into student finance. Scottish students and academics have banded together to urge the Scottish Parliament not to "cherry-pick" the Pounds 71...
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Do v-cs have lifelong habit?
Christine King is vice-chancellor of Staffordshire University. When not engaged in the duties that entails, she writes about Elvis Presley and Nazi Germany, studies garden design and yearns to take a...
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Low pay is at heart of sector's recruitment problems
Low pay is the single biggest reason for the difficulties universities face in recruiting and keeping lecturers, according to a new survey. But the report by Riley Communications says that, as a rule...
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Job pressures keep staff from taking holidays
Academics are too busy to take their holiday entitlement, a survey has found, writes Michael Bird. The University of the West of England branch of the lecturers' union Natfhe found that many take...
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Same fee for all, but three times the value for some
Some students have three times as much cash available to be spent on them as others, in spite of paying exactly the same Pounds 1,025 tuition fee, new figures show. Statistics compiled by university...
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North Brum 'landmark'
North Birmingham College has joined the growing ranks of education institutions facing employment tribunals under new laws designed to protect whistleblowers. Ian Walker, a business studies lecturer...
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Darker shade of Oxbridge blue?
Suicides among the bright young things of Oxford and Cambridge attract a great deal of media attention, but are the rates in fact any higher than for students elsewhere? Claire Sanders reports In...
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New Year's honours
KNIGHTS: George Alberti, president of the Royal College of Physicians, for services to diabetic medicine; John Beringer, lately chairman, Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment, for...
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Creative detail
Students with dreams of creative internet careers can examine courses through a bilingual European guide. Where to Get Multimedia Training in Europe covers courses in 16 European Union countries....
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Eyewitness
Romanians lost their traditional construction skills under communism, especially after former dictator Nicolae Ceausescu took power in 1964. He banned brick-kiln firing, lime-mortar rendering and...
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Turin
A 90-year-old retired general of the elite Alpini mountain troops has graduated in political science at Turin University, earning top marks for his thesis on relations between the United States and...
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Petaling Jaya
Malaysia's national accreditation board has ruled that students enrolling for masters degrees in private universities must have at least a first degree or its equivalent. The minimum entry...
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Ottawa
A police operation to apprehend clients of street prostitutes netted the man who performed Canada's first heart transplant. Wilbert Keon is to step down as director-general of the University of...
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Tripped up by false fluency
Culturally specific terms in education can be minefields for even skilled translators, says Pieta Monks. Pity the Soviet translator of a booklet about a collective farm designed to show western...
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Dollar aids student drift abroad
Britain remains by far the most popular destination for United States students doing academic work abroad and their numbers are increasing. But several non-traditional destinations have seen even...