Lobby points to postgrad plight
The government must address funding for postgraduate students if it is sincere about promoting equal access and lifelong learning, according to the National Postgraduate Committee. This should...
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Jilted giant blames Glaxo
Pharmaceuticals giants Glaxo Wellcome and SmithKline Beecham called off their Pounds 120 billion merger this week because of problems in agreeing to a board structure for the new company and...
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Bosses recruit from the top
Universities' demands for the right to charge differential tuition fees received an 11th-hour reprieve this week as the government's plan to deny them moved nearer the statute book. Shadow education...
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Costs survey under wraps
A reappraisal of the full indirect costs of university research is close to completion, and the results are likely to influence the government's decision on dual support. Consultants Coopers and...
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Humanities reprieve
CONTROVERSIAL moves to rationalise funding between arts and science subjects will be dropped in 1998-99 to make money available for humanities research. The 糖心Vlog Funding Council for...
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Pill palaver
(Photograph) - Not happy with just protesting against tuition fees this week, Leeds student union also took to the streets to demonstrate against alleged government plans to charge for the...
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Ropas opened to all comers
The government this week published first indications of the success of the Realising Our Potential Awards (Ropas) and extended their scope to all disciplines in the research councils' remits, writes...
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We are the problem
What's the problem with the lifelong learning green paper? This newspaper, according to David Blunkett on the BBC's World at One this Wednesday, as leaders of a programme of negativism against the...
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Mulling a cull
Buried deep in the lifelong learning green paper published this week is the statement: "We are inviting Sir Claus Moser, chairman of the Basic SkillsAgency, to chair a working group to advise on...
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For in, read out
The shortest of the government's responses to recommendations from Lord Dearing's committee of inquiry is perhaps the most telling. In a fit of enthusiasm, the committee recommended a new Dearing-...
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A bit rich
Not everyone loves the North Report on the future of Oxford, but there can be little doubt that its proposal for more openness about college finances is welcome. Staff of Corpus Christi, a...
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Merge and save
The Independent Review Committee to decide pay and conditions in higher education met for the first time this week. Its staff could have a few worries about pay and conditions themselves. By this...
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Domed to failure
No wonder journalists cannot be nice about the Millennium Dome. The New Millennium Experience Company this week showed again that giving them the nastiest experience possible is its aim. Reporters on...
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See Dundee and write
Forget the number of shopping days till Christmas - there are only 13 weeks left before the deadline for the Dundee Book Prize, an award for an unpublished novel set in Dundee. Dundee University,...
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Wellcome and goodbye
This week's alumnus to be proud of, No 160 in the series, knows a little about educational quality. Sir Richard Sykes took a first in microbiology at Queen Elizabeth College, London, and a PhD in...