Welsh rising
The number of students on higher education courses in Wales grew by 55 per cent from 1990/91 to 1993/94, figures published by the Welsh Office show. More than half of the 83,800 students in 1993/94...
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Universities face student boom
Higher education is set to change beyond all recognition as individual institutions struggle to greet 25 per cent more students in the next ten years, according to an Institute of Employment Studies...
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Faraday four get cash
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council has revealed details of a Pounds 20 million plan to strengthen research ties between industry and academia. The idea is to create four "Faraday...
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Durham revamps Stockton venture
Students enrolling at University College, Stockton, this year will be the first to emerge with University of Durham instead of joint Durham/Teesside degrees. This marks the end of a collaboration...
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Funding by numbers provokes Greek university fury
Greek university chiefs have reacted angrily to education secretary George Papandreou's suggestion that future funding of universities should be based on student numbers and that teaching staff be...
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Dead Clever? Terminally unfunny
I have never before encountered such a lot of malodorous claptrap (Dead Clever by Ted Nield, THES, July 19). The characters are crudely drawn: Toni in particular appears to be the two-dimensional...
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Wood that they had their just desserts
I am deeply conscious of the high honour and distinction of being selected to provide a text for a Laurie Taylor column, but please allow me to point out that I am not at present vice chancellor of...
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Onwards and upwards: a corner of Cheltenham and Gloucester College of 糖心Vlog
(Photograph) - Onwards and upwards: a corner of Cheltenham and Gloucester College of 糖心Vlog, which is one of the few institutions praised in a report on the greening of universities for its...
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Debts mount up
The Student Loans Company had received more than 1.8 million applications for loans by mid-1995 and Pounds 1.8 billion of repayments was still outstanding, according to a National Audit Office report...
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Unwelcome mail
In an antidote to our "alumni to be proud of" series, Antithesis reports that Strathclyde University has one alumnus about whom it is certain not to boast. A copy of the University Review, sent to...
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Ulster gains associate
The Northern Ireland Hotel and Catering College's announcement that it is to become an associate college of Ulster University is being seen as a tangible vote of confidence in the prospects of a...
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Prison sentence for flag burning
A Belarusian pro-democracy activist, Andrey Romasheuski, deputy chairman of the Beer-Lovers' party, has received a two-year suspended prison sentence in connection with a student demonstration in...
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Professors go back to schoolroom
University professor Isak Frumin spends most of his time at school. An associate professor at Krasnoyarsk State University, Siberia, Dr Frumin, a mathematician, is also head teacher of Russia's first...
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Don't train 'em, just get 'em out
Anna Tobin (THES, July 26) highlights a pressing problem in higher education: the inability of some academics to teach. If the lack of a teaching qualification is the problem, why are there so many...
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Don's Diary
MONDAY. Refreshed by a weekend away from my computer, I am awoken as ever by the noise of trucks passing my bedroom window on their way to Spitalfields market in east London. Even the double glazing...