Graduate status 'inevitable'
What is the future of nursing education as more school-leavers attend university? Julia Hinde reports Nursing will inevitably become a graduate-only profession, say nurse educators. Christine Hancock...
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Boost to research in new posting
What is the future of nursing education as more school-leavers attend university? Julia Hinde reports Nursing research is set for a boost with the appointment of a professor of nursing research at...
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Figures distort female crime
DELINQUENT women are nothing new, a study of girls in the early years of this century has found. Society was despairing of the "modern" girl in the 1860s and has continued to redefine what it means...
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Cash crop
(Photograph) - Cash crop: a student at Askham Bryan College of Agriculture and Horticulture, York, completes his crop-spraying training. Short courses at the college, such as forklift truck-driving...
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Nexus proposes private Oxbridge
OXFORD and Cambridge universities should go private, an influential "intellectual network" of academics with close government links will argue this week. David Halpern, founder of the left-of-centre...
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Higher education system would be damaged if the Oxbridge college fee were moved
Britain's whole higher education system would be damaged if the Oxbridge college fee were removed, MPs were warned this week. In a House of Commons debate, Liberal Democrat Evan Harris claimed axeing...
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Official: loan cash switched to FE
DAVID Blunkett's special adviser has admitted that money for undergraduate loans has been switched from higher education to help shore up further education. Adviser Conor Ryan confirmed this week...
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University health and safety cash to fall
More students and fewer staff are forecast in higher education over the next few years, while buildings are plunging intodisrepair. A study to be published by the 糖心Vlog Funding Council for...
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Rice loses job appeal
AN INDUSTRIAL tribunal has upheld the Medical Research Council's decision last year to dismiss Mary Rice from her post as head of public communication for publicly criticising the council's decision...
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Venus and Jupiter key to creativity
A PSYCHOLOGY lecturer's study of dyslexia among art students took a mystical turn when she offered to read students' horoscopes. Amateur astrologer Beverley Steffert, of Birkbeck College, London, was...
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Policy Studies Institute-Westminster merger
One of Britain's leading independent research bodies, the Policy Studies Institute, is set to merge with the University of Westminster in the new year. Pamela Meadows, PSI director, said that...
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Another meningitis death hits Southampton
A THIRD Southampton University fresher has died from meningitis. The latest case, the sixth to hit the university in the past month, was at a different hall of residence from the first five cases....
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Confidence vote goes against v-c King
ROGER King, vice chancellor of Lincolnshire and Humberside University, has been asked to resign in a vote of no confidence. Natfhe members are angry with what they claim is "undemocratic" management...
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Tribunal dismisses Evans's discrimination case
CAMBRIDGE lecturer Gill Evans has suffered the first blow in her crusade to change her university's procedures for promoting academic staff. After winning leave in the High Court in August for a...
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Anglia Polytechnic considers name change
GOVERNORS at Anglia Polytechnic University will debate whether to rename the institution the University of Eastern England at a meeting on December 4. Some believe the contradictory title causes...