Scots lead student U-turn
Student moderates are increasingly hopeful that the National Union of Students will abandon its traditional call for the restoration of full grants at its Blackpool conference next week, following a...
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PAC finds Pounds 15m loans debts
Universities and the Department for Education and Employment must develop more reliable means of tracing and recording student drop-outs, says a report from the influential House of Commons Public...
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Kingsway pair seeks review
A former student union president expelled and a fellow officer suspended from Kingsway College were to appear before the Legal Aid Board yesterday to seek support for a judicial review of their case...
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God - or mere man?
(Photograph) - God - or mere man? Argument rages over whether this mysterious and immense bronze figure, dating from around 1200bc and discovered in 1986 in sacrificial pits at Sanxingdui, China, is...
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Cuts hamper search for quality
Universities and colleges still face serious challenges in improving quality management, according to a report out today. But funding cuts may hamper their attempts to tackle weaknesses, say the...
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Inner life of don-dom
Inundated with information about nearly every aspect of higher education, we lack sustained discussion of the changing inner culture of universities. There are several good starts, however. Tony...
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Campus security is a key issue
All of us in universities are ambivalent about safety and security on our campuses. We expect to be hermetically sealed against thieves, drug pushers and peeping toms but we resent any obvious...
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Deep divisions over disaster debriefings
Disaster debriefings, which are becoming increasingly popular, may make victims worse, a psychologist said this week. Debriefings, which were offered to survivors and relatives after the killings at...
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Simple eye test for diabetics could save sight
Scientists at Aberdeen University have made a technological breakthrough which they believe could provide a much simpler means of testing for eye disease, the most common complication of diabetes....
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Europe aims for just Aids approach
European Union countries should adopt a libertarian and progressive policy towards people with HIV and Aids, in contrast to the United States model which tends towards draconian measures in its...
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Don's Diary
MONDAY. "Today's Monday, today's MondayI" as the monotonous 1960s song said. But in my case it is not the washing but a 9.15am lecture. I have taken over, mid-term, from a colleague on the basic...
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Hostage to stress hits out
(Photograph) - Terry Waite (left), the former special envoy and hostage, lashed out at critics of post-traumatic stress disorder at a conference this week. Addressing an audience of psychologists and...
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Seed of an idea: Colin Ferris
(Photograph) - Seed of an idea: Colin Ferris, lecturer in ecology at Leicester University, has collected hundreds of acorns from local oaks and planted them on the roof of a university building. He...
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Big Issue is good for health
The Big Issue magazine is transforming the lives of the homeless people who sell it on the streets, according to research by consumer specialists at Liverpool John Moores University. Some 70 Big...
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Dearing team dream
(Photograph) - Lord Beloff, Conservative peer and former vice chancellor of the University of Buckingham (top left): "One person I would nominate is John Roberts, formerly warden of Merton College,...