Cash for colleges
Oxford University's academics will soon vote on whether to release a plot of land for a Pounds 20 million business school funded by Syrian entrepreneur Wafic Said. Valentine Cunningham explains why...
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Sir Ron aims to enthuse the poor
Sir Ron Dearing this week appealed to universities to give renewed emphasis to the old Robbins objective of transmitting common standards of citizenship in the wake of the murder of London headmaster...
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Simon Saunders of Coventry University
(Photograph) - Simon Saunders of Coventry University shows off the "ultimate car" for the year 2096 as envisaged by his transport design students. The vehicle, created in collaboration with design...
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Students fall victim to French law
Research students arriving on exchange schemes as English assistants at Nanterre University have fallen foul of tough French immigration laws. Ten PhD students of United States, Canadian, Indian and...
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Moray deal
Moray House Institute of Education and Edinburgh University are to explore the possibility of a merger which would create Scotland's largest university. Moray House has been an associated college of...
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Techno triumphs
Eight further education colleges have received awards totalling Pounds 200,000 for projects using new teaching and learning technologies. Bilston Community College, Bromley College, City College...
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National pay deals `at an end'
Universities and colleges attempting to avert an all-out strike over pay are offering staff enhanced local settlements, sparking claims that the national bargaining structure is finished. Cracks in...
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Vivisectionists accused of glossing over suffering
Scientists using animals in experiments are blatantly fudging the issue of pain and suffering in material submitted for publication, a leading British academic told delegates at a major international...
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Oxford launches South African adventure
Oxford University is setting up a range of programmes for South African students and staff, especially those at the historically black institutions. Oxford was one of the eight British universities...
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The theatre with quite a good library attached
A missed train and a Canadian academic's passion for the Elizabethan theatre have brought a unique collection of 3,000 books on the Shakespearean theatre to London's Globe complex. In 1969 Don Rowan...
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Out of range
(Photograph) - Many university rifle and pistol clubs could be forced to close if tough new gun laws, announced in this week's Queen's Speech, are passed. All of them will have to strengthen security...
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Sir Ron tells colleges: you must sell yourselves
The vast majority of employers still need convincing that university graduates are worth hiring, Sir Ron Dearing said this week. Sir Ron, giving details of the early progress of his higher education...
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'Skewed' Ofsted reading report slammed
University of London academics who shot holes in a report on children's reading standards by the Office for Standards in Education say the organisation needs a few basic lessons in research technique...
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Modules stir mixed reception
universities and colleges are increasingly adopting modularisation - the movement now involves around 90 per cent of the sector - but the way it is being introduced is causing resentment among staff...
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Japan faces number crunching future
World market success is forcing a once tightly knit nation to unwind. Tony Tysome takes a look Leaders of Japanese higher education are fighting to avert a financial and educational crisis they fear...