Flood of foreign students predicted
Australia is facing a huge expansion in the number of fee-paying foreign students seeking places over the next 15 years, according to a new survey. The study predicts a five-fold increase in overseas...
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College escapes fatal past
Concordia University seems on the road back to stability after three years of turmoil which began with the shooting deaths of four professors by a colleague and continued with a substantial turnover...
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References
(1) "Opportunity and achievement", The THES, November 12, 1993. (2) The Report of the Commission on Social Justice. November 1994. Institute of Public Policy Research. (3) Further Education Alert....
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Spill the beans... We need your views on these questions
1 Should expansion in participation in post-16 education continue? How far should expansion go? 2 What role should post-16 education play in developing a modern, competitive economy? 3 Tuition fees...
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Student funding: off the back burner
(Photograph) - New Solutions, an independent group of over 100 student union officers, is seeking to revitalise the debate on student funding. In the first stage of a consultation exercise, the group...
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Worm turns muck into grass
One of the gardener's best friends, the worm, will face the formidable challenge next spring of converting a mixture of sewage sludge and colliery soil into relatively fertile soil. The task for the...
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Needles for sore noddles
Sufferers from tension headaches may soon be regularly treated by acupuncture if research at the University of Exeter is successful. Researchers at the Centre for Complementary Health Studies in the...
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Tourist project may save otter
Tourism expert Myra Shackley is heading for a forgotten part of the Guyanan jungle in a bid to save some of the world's last remaining giant otters from the threat of illegal hunting and extinction....
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Coastal college changeover
The University College Scarborough swapped its allegiance from Leeds University to York this week in a move which reflects the sea change in relations between universities and their colleges. George...
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Scottish union scuppers AUT talk
A Scottish lecturers' union is angry that its parent body has refused to allow potential merger talks with the Association of University Teachers. Leaders of the University Lecturers' Association,...
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Law students win case
Law students from Northern Ireland have won their case in the Irish Republic. The high court in Dublin ruled after a complex two-month case that the Law Society in the Republic has been...
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Nutritionist's food for thought
Nutritionists are so plagued by pressures from industry, governments and funding agencies that their science would appear "unacceptably relativist" to other disciplines, according to Prakash Shetty,...
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Consensus marks rival party plans
As Parliament resumes this week, a growing consensus on further and higher education policies is emerging as the Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats unveil their ideas for the future of...
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Cash fillip for GP training
Medical schools have welcomed National Health Service funding arrangements for medical and dental students despite uncertainty over finance for expansion. Health minister Gerald Malone has confirmed...
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Pioneer probe of nervous system
Glaxo Wellcome is giving a further Pounds 7 million to London's new strategic medical research institute this week for work on the role nitric oxide plays in sending messages through the central...