Fine tooth con?
This week's prize for defying the zeitgeist and getting funding for it goes to Professor H. Davies of Reading University, who has been awarded Pounds 52,915 by the Department of the Environment to...
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High hopes
One view likely to be less contentious than most at today's CVCP meeting is that higher education issues need a higher profile. As education and employment question time attained unusual levels of...
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Burned out
Paisley University's annual Burns Lunch was its usual outstanding success last week, even though some of those due to perform were absent because of flu. Indeed, Sam Monaghan, associate head of...
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Unplugged
We regret to announce the demise of the international edition of Iota, the newsletter of the Dutch Foundation for Public Information on Science, Technology and the Humanities. The parting message on...
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Rise and shine
CVCP members who may have noted the elusive qualities of their chief executive, Diana Warwick, may be surprised to learn she is now virtually a household name. According to CVCP News, the mysterious...
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Cuts push AUT to flirt with foe
The Association of University Teachers has rejected industrial action, including exam disruption and refusal to process student applications, in protest at the budget cuts to university funding....
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College heads say no
Higher education college heads have condemned an entrance levy and other Budget counter-measures as "irresponsible", "ill-conceived" and "divisive". The Standing Conference of Principals, whose...
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Engineering courses in jeopardy as new council toughens up
The new Engineering Council was launched today amid warnings of a shake-up in engineering degrees that will lead to some courses losing their accreditation. The director general of the new council,...
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Ulster honours team
Ulster University is taking the unusual step of using its honours degree ceremony to confer awards on seven educationists, in recognition of a profession it believes to be under "intense pressure"....
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Health boost for NW
Liverpool and Manchester universities have pooled expertise in medicine, law and bioethics to produce an institute devoted to medical ethics. The institute is funded by the two universities and by...
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Intakes reduced
Raymond Robertson, Scottish Office minister for education, has announced cuts in intakes to both primary and secondary teacher training courses, warning newly qualified teachers that there is...
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Poor elect to stay on
Young people from disadvantaged inner-city areas who have no exam passes are more likely than ever to be staying on at school after the age of 16. According to a study by the Policy Studies Institute...
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Honour beyond Our Ken?
Nottingham Trent University's proposal to award the Chancellor of the Exchequer an honorary degree was under heated discussion this week as the academic board - which has already overwhelmingly...
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Levy hangs in balance
A THES survey of vice chancellors suggests voting will be close as they decide today whether to endorse plans for a levy on new undergraduates in 1997. Plans to withdraw from outside activities,...
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2:1 reigns supreme
Reports that universities have increased their grades so much that the 2:1 is now more common than the 2:2 were confirmed this week, with the publication of national data on degree classes....