Schools to eclipse college training
Teacher training colleges and university education departments stand to lose more funding and control to school-based training schemes under Government plans to be unveiled next week. Phased funding...
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Campus sports lobby makes its debut
Sir Roger Bannister's working party to consider the place of sports scholarships in British universities met for the first time this week. The group, which will report back to sports minister Iain...
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Sussex lookalikes
Plus ca change? A still politically-active alumnus of early 1970s Sussex University, cherishing memories of days when the Falmer campus's public spaces were "like one giant wall newspaper"...
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Eye opener
The omnipresent Open University has acquired a human billboard in the shape of Scottish Second Division football club Queen of the South, whose shirts now bear the familiar OU logo. The deal,...
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Opt-out triggers protest
Richmond Adult and Community College's bid to opt out of local authority control hit an unwelcome hitch this week when one of its governors resigned in protest against "the wilful hijacking of a...
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Asthma warning
Parents whose children suffer from asthma may make the condition worse by changing bedding from feather to synthetic fillings, according to researchers at St George's Hospital, London in this week's...
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Scots TV pioneers
Scotland's higher education institutions have taken a cautious step towards establishing their own TV channel. The Committee of Scottish 糖心Vlog Principals this week set up a group to talk...
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Scholar fights on
Cyril Edwards, the linguistics scholar made redundant by Goldmiths College last year, has resigned from the Association of University Teachers because the union dropped its High Court case against...
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Natfhe deficit
The national executive of Natfhe, which faces a Pounds 1million shortfall in income, voted last week to hold a special rules conference in December. The union's membership has fallen by 10 per cent...
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Nerve centre opens
A new Pounds 1 million neurosciences research institute, which opened yesterday at Dundee University is expected to raise Pounds 3 million of research income over the next five years.
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Loss leaders
Britain led the world in this week's Ig Nobel prizes, awarded by the Annals of Improbable Research for research which "cannot or should not be reproduced". The economics prize went to Nick Leeson,...
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Internet news
Have your say on the issue of student funding. This week The THES is putting the student-produced New Solutions document and questionnaire (page 8) on the Internet. Every week Thesis, The THES...
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Indian appraisal upsets chiefs
Staff at once troubled Bournemouth University have decided to turn the tables on their managers and scrutinise their performance by setting up their own appraisal system. So far the initiative,...
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Absolutely lovely
(Photograph) - Absolutely lovely: The Royal College of Art's watering hole, the Absolut ArtBar, looks new. But it has had more than a splash of paint. Thanks to sponsorship from the spirits company...
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New Solutions, old problems
New Solutions, an independent group of over 100 student union officers of various political hues, has launched a consultation document this week to further debate on student funding. The document,...