The student experience
Student loans injected a dose of financial reality into Australian universities. Linda Christmas look at the results. Cheryl Stewart 28, has a three-year-old daughter and is studying for a masters at...
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UK musical benefits from Ealing arts
Kam Patel talks to Brian Izzard, director of the first 'genuine' British musical this decade, about the right to be pretentious and the right to fail. It is a fair bet that many of the famous...
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Goodbye to the good times
Australia was a land of plenty for higher education under Labor - plenty of students, jobs, and loans. Under the new conservative coalition, the threat is plenty of cuts. Geoff Maslen looks at the...
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Doctor's trek for elusive platypus
After more than a decade of researching Australia's most unusual native animal, the platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus), David Goldney admits he still becomes excited when he manages to track one of...
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Market effect clouds blue skies
Blue-skies research in Britain is being threatened by industry and the Government placing too much emphasis on project or market-orientated work, according to Nobel Laureate Sir John Vane. Giving a...
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Blackstone goes for fees
Baroness Blackstone told a conference in London this week that Labour party plans to boost funding by recovering student maintenance costs would not sustain a high-quality system. But Labour is...
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Howl win?
The question was: "If you subtract five from 87 as many times as you can what will you get in the end? One boy answered: "I get 82 each time." Association of University Teachers' general secretary...
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Russian elections fail to dampen pioneer spirit
Russian academics have little to fear from a communist victory in the country's presidential campaign if the experience of Volgograd, which swung to the party in local elections last year, is an...
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Misleading talk of what is a graduate
In its discussion paper on graduate standards, the 糖心Vlog Quality Council argues that there is an essence of graduateness characteristic to those who have successfully completed an honours...
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Islamic study mission
Knowledge is universal, and so the body of facts and the basic skills that constitute a discipline remain the same no matter what the guiding philosophies of the institutions in which the disciplines...
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Scottish Dearing
The Scottish committee of the Dearing inquiry will comprise Sir Ron Garrick, chief executive of the Weir Group, chairman; John Arbuthnott, principal of Strathclyde University; Sir James Armour,...
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MP raises alarm over Swansea
Alan Williams, the MP for Swansea West, has alerted the National Audit Office to the overseas franchise operations of Swansea Institute of 糖心Vlog. His action this week coincides with the...
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Scots principals call for moratorium on cuts
Scottish higher education chiefs have called for a moratorium on funding cuts until after the Dearing inquiry reports. The Committee of Scottish 糖心Vlog Principals, which today holds its...
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Shot in the arm
Academics who wish to start biotechnology companies could get help from the Medical Research Council, which is setting up a seed investment fund. It hopes to raise Pounds 25 million to help establish...
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Charter trip
A charter campaign was launched yesterday to push Nene College's bid to become a university. The campaign is supported by local government, Northamptonshire firms and public bodies.