Ashdown unveils People First policy
Paddy Ashdown, the Liberal Democrat leader, has promised "clear, costed commitments for specific goals" in education. Better training and adult education were among the targets in a "people first"...
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Academy calls for engineering reform
The Royal Academy of Engineering will call today for a radical restructuring of engineering degrees to meet demand from the job market. An academy study wants to brush "traditional attitudes" aside...
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Employers praise colleges' role in skill training
Employers' demand for skilled workers is still rising and universities and colleges are best at delivering what they require, according to a report from the Department of Education and Employment...
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Medical medium
Prepare for the latest horror story on health. Ken Begg, senior scientific officer at an Edinburgh University Medical Research Council unit, is about to publish his latest medical thriller. Dr Begg,...
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Inhumane geography
Delegates at last week's Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers annual conference at Exeter University found they had a new fan, local professor of education Ted Wragg....
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Rave review
It is clearly time for the society's Young Rural Researchers to change their name. One of its members, Elizabeth Hyde, a Bristol University PhD student, has been researching drug-taking by 14 to 20-...
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Caius cut
With constituent parts of the universities of London and Wales periodically interested in secession, can our other collegiate institutions be far behind? One alumnus of Gonville and Caius College,...
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Branson's pickle
Richard Branson may have survived the premature end to his round-the-world ballooning bid, but there was no such luck for equipment from the University of East Anglia's school of environmental...
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Street wise: Andy Loughe
(Photograph) - Street wise: Andy Loughe hopes to take the education route out of homelessness via Liverpool University
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Roof justice
Roof justice: police escorted these huge sheets of roofing on their journey from Merseyside to the University of Hertfordshire last week. The sheets will shield a Pounds 16 million Learning Resource...
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Get smart with a nous test
Employability is the key to a job for graduates. Jonathan Brill describes a new test that gives students the chance to prove their skills and employers a measure of them Many jobs attract hundreds,...
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Beggars belief
Just when you were starting to think that the level of political debate could not fall much further without the protagonists starting to grunt, in steps alumnus to be proud of No: 85 with his...
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Spruce Bruce: the National Galleries of Scotland
(Photograph) - Spruce Bruce: the National Galleries of Scotland have produced a CD-ROM which stars a lifesize reconstruction of Robert the Bruce, who defeated the English at Bannockburn in 1314. Iain...
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V-cs attack VAT and pay levels
VAT REGULATIONS and other "unnecessary and intrusive" rules and financial constraints on universities should be scrapped, the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals has told the Dearing inquiry...
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Private sector poised for boom
PRIVATE higher education could absorb rising student numbers without increasing the Government's education budget burden and without excluding students unable to pay tuition fees, a key private...