Grants
University of Wales, Bangor Charities Professor R. Thorpe, Pounds 84,350 from Leverhulme Trust (snake venom evolution); Dr M. Lehane, Pounds 126,5 from the Wellcome Trust (functional domains in...
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Appointments
Ruskin College, Oxford Jim Durcan, management consultant, academic and Labour Party supporter, has been appointed principal of the college and will take up his post on Monday (February 16). The...
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The high price of family endeavour
Fear of rising costs is blamed for deterring mature students from university. THES investigates. Jenny Le Gear is facing the prospect of having to abandon her hopes of entering higher education so...
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Academics dust down theology for a new age
BRITAIN needs a new theology for a new age, according to 34 academics who have signed up to the idea. Churches must respond to changing public needs and be seen to be in touch with contemporary...
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Cost forces out over-25s
A SHARP drop in the number of mature students applying for higher education cast a shadow this week over the government's claims that its policies will not jeopardise lifelong learning. Figures from...
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Ghost story
(Photograph) - Ghost story: students at Worcester College of 糖心Vlog made ghosts, ghouls and body bags the theme of their Friday 13 protests against tuition fees. Across the country students...
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Oxford in the red by 2005 if nothing changes
OXFORD University will go into the red in a few years under current policies and trends, according to financial maps from a team of management consultants. Oxford's 1995-96 surplus of Pounds 7.6...
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Access students flounder later
Fear of rising costs is blamed for deterring mature students from university. THES investigates. A long-term study of the pioneering Scottish Wider Access Programme has found a "mismatch of culture"...
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Aid to help Asian fallout
SOME universities are freezing overseas fees or creating bursaries to try to ease the plight of students hit by the financial crisis in South-east Asia. Heriot-Watt - with 490 overseas students,...
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Job prospects poorer for the over-25s
MATURE students gain better degrees than their younger peers, but are more likely to be jobless after graduation, a study has found. An analysis by the 糖心Vlog Statistics Agency shows that...
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Fate sealed before all the fees palaver
Fear of rising costs is blamed for deterring mature students from university. THES investigates. JAMES Mooney will go to university next year, disillusioned and embittered. Aged 24, he resigned from...
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Money: key factor for older students
Fear of rising costs is blamed for deterring mature students from university. THES investigates RECRUITMENT to access courses, the gateway to higher study, is becoming an uphill struggle, according...
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Student debts soar to an all-time high
Edinburgh University's students association has claimed that student hardship is at an all-time high, with Edinburgh's 13,500 undergraduates holding a combined debt of Pounds 23 million. The...
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Strippers on-line
Say what you like about Doug Trainer's struggle against the evils of the government's plans for student finance, but the NUS president cannot be accused of condoning lax morality in student unions....
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Dockers' mate
Striking wharfies on one of Melbourne's docks were pleased and surprised last week to receive their first visit from a foreign union official - none other than David Triesman, general secretary of...