Government lines up learning for jobless
The Government is set to pilot a radical "learning on benefit" scheme next year which could encourage unemployed people to study while looking for a job. The scheme would be a substantial softening...
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Closure threatens marine centre
A national marine biological station has warned that it faces closure because of budget cuts from the funding councils. John Davenport, director of the University Marine Biological Station Millport...
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From Plato to Pluto
Golden Labrador Alf this week gained his Dundee University philosophy department attendance certificate, conferred by university principal Ian Graham-Bryce. Alf has been coming to philosophy classes...
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Getting to the giving stage
A unique programme piloted by the Red Cross is enabling refugees to train to counsel other asylum seekers. Alan Thomson reports. The British Red Cross is pioneering a unique higher education project...
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Trust is key to Chechen peace
Boris Yeltsin may have boosted his chances of success in the second round of Russia's presidential elections next month by securing a Chechen peace deal, but the road to a lasting solution to the...
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Gulf war in quality assurance
The furore created by the publication of the first report from the joint planning group for quality assurance in higher education has exposed the very considerable gulf that exists between the...
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Spinning right out of control
It may have provided juicy soundbites for newspapers and politicians, but the spin the ESRC put on our findings about grammar in schools does no one any favours, warn Christopher Brumfit and Rosamond...
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Treasury eyes spy uncrowded rooms
The Government has been handed a powerful new weapon in its battle to prove that universities are not underfunded, with the issue this week of a report from the National Audit Office. The report The...
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Noble prizes
Alumni to be proud of No 54 and 55 are those fine upstanding exemplars of the hereditary principle, milords the seventh marquesses of Bristol and Bath (what is it about these places in the West...
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Nadia Abdalla
Nadia Abdalla is slowly rebuilding a life shattered when a coup in her homeland Sudan forced her into exile. As a trained doctor Mrs Abdalla was part of Sudan's elite. In 1989 she was in Britain,...
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Scots FE should take the English road
A Labour MP has called for Scotland to consider following the English pattern of funding higher education in its further education sector. Courses run by Scottish further education colleges are...
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Delay in reform risks new unrest
Long-awaited French university reform plans, promised in the wake of last autumn's student unrest, have turned out to be just the first stage in a long-term process without any extra funding. The...
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Bathetic excuses
Yes it's working - but the Government is oddly reluctant to claim the credit. Were Lord Robbins alive today he would be amazed that we have a higher education system with a 30 per cent age...
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Responsible science
Is it really part of a scientist's responsibility to avoid advocating "radical measures" until cause and effect are firmly established ("A Shot in the dark", THES, June 14)? Should a responsible...
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Medical Bills
The Bill to allow University College London to absorb the Royal Free Hospital Medical School passed through Parliament last week. On Monday the Bill to permit King's College, London, to merge its...