Groves of academe no bed of roses
It is part of popular mythology that university teachers lead cushy lives. Their working days in pleasing quadrangles are short and stimulating. Their holidays and High Table dinners are long and...
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Don's Diary
Week one Have spent the end of last term and the Christmas holidays writing reports, notes, lesson plans, work schedules, mock exam papers - and I am exhausted. The groves of academe have signalled...
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Debt and division in Canada
For two decades, the student assistance system was as straightforward as social programmes get in Canada. There was a national system of student loans, the Canada Student Loan Plan (CSLP), from which...
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Rich robbed to prevent collapse
HIGH-FLYING universities have been plundered to pay for the less successful in a funding round aimed at fending off cash crises in individual institutions. But the 1997/98 allocations announced...
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Funding chiefs
FUNDING chiefs are seeking greater control of university building projects. Cuts in capital grant and the end of the first phase ofa backlog maintenance programme has sharply reduced the amount of...
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Degrees for sale on the Internet
An Internet service is selling fake degree certificates for Pounds 70 each. From his website Peter Quinn offers those "who have never had a chance at a university or college education" a choice of A-...
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Moderation
In previous years, the council established funding thresholds so that no institution suffered cash reductions of more than a certain amount - 4.5 per cent in cash terms last year. This year, help has...
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Total recurrent funding grant
This is the first year the council has made no separate calculation for capital funding. This is therefore included in the total Pounds 3,405 million recurrent grant. The total is a 2.8 per cent...
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FEFC drops roll capping
THE FURTHER Education Funding Council has dropped attempts to cap student recruitment in the face of legal threats from colleges and a Government climbdown. FEFC chief executive David Melville wrote...
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Medical charities seek lottery rethink
MEDICAL research charities want changes in the applications procedure for lottery grants to avoid a repeat of the low level of applications last year. An Association of Medical Research Charities...
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Underground movement
(Photograph) - Underground movement: the Camborne School of Mines is planning to move its campus from Redruth to the site of the proposed new Cornwall University at Trereife, Penzance. It will...
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Lancaster drops bond issue restructuring
THE UNIVERSITY of Lancaster has told the Stock Exchange that plans to restructure its Pounds 35 million bond issue have been dropped. The university opted two years ago to raise Pounds 35 million...
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Institutions risk superannuation sting
UNIVERSITIES and colleges may find themselves out of pocket as a result of last week's Government decision to postpone changes to the Teachers Superannuation Scheme from April 1 to September 1. Many...
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Ballot result expected on revised pay offer
STAFF in Scottish universities and colleges were this week expecting the results of a ballot on a revised pay offer which could signal the end of their industrial action. The dispute, centred on the...
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DoE pumps Pounds 34,000 into greening
FOUR years after the Toyne report first demanded the greening of Britain's universities, the Department of the Environment has contributed Pounds 34,000 to a national "greening" initiative. The money...