On your honour
This week's prize for maintaining the value of honorary awards by keeping them scarce goes to the University of Edinburgh, which announced last week that it will be awarding 24 honorary degrees in...
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Teacher training set for rethink
Government targets for increasing the supply of teachers will be missed unless new measures to boost student interest in the profession are introduced, the Teacher Training Agency has warned. A multi...
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Bridge too far
Having long argued a lucidly compelling case that the underlying problems of the British economy are structural, this week it looked as though The Guardian's economics pages had a real restructuring...
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Hard-bitten
Not quite the learning bank, but a nightclub and a restaurant in Leicester have caught on to the idea of investing against educational contingencies. The Mosquito Coast nightclub and the Que Pasa...
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Great's expectations
The impending appointment of Sir Ron Dearing's neo-Royal Commission has sent a surge of excitement through higher education's would-be great and good. But some are keeping it in proportion: "I can...
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Trees a crowd
Wishful thinking on the part of Aberdeen University's students association? Its motion to tomorrow's National Union of Students' Scottish conference, on "urgent environmental issues", warns that...
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Brush strokes
The world's most exciting gathering of mathematicians ever takes place at Oxford University next week. The topic? Well, according to Oxford University's press office the mathematicians will be "...
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Breast team wins
The excitement of gene-hunting was described last week by Mike Stratton of the Institute of Cancer Research, whose team recently won an international race to isolate the breast cancer gene, BRCA2. "...
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Police investigate South Bank union
Police were called to South Bank University student union this week to investigate allegations that executive officers misused union funds. Officers from Southwark police station are investigating...
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President launches peace centre
A centre for the international study of forgiveness and reconciliation was opened at Coventry University this week with an inaugural address by its patron, the Irish President, Mary Robinson....
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A split cause for schizophrenia
A Newcastle academic claims he has beaten the mainstream of schizophrenia researchers to discover that schizophrenia is caused by a single gene plus three environmental factors. Schizophrenia, like...
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Sandwich course
As Scotland's higher education institutions grit their teeth over this week's grant allocations, at least they cannot accuse the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council of being profligate with its...
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Pet defective
Pets and degrees are clearly a dangerous combination. After the Heriot-Watt graduation certificate, which had to be replaced when the graduate's Labrador puppy buried it in the garden, a Reading...
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Balliol right to take Flick gift
The man appointed this week to raise funds for the Labour Party, defended his decision to pursue the controversial Flick donation to Balliol College while in charge of fundraising for Oxford...
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Fundamental physics exerts pull
Fundamental physics may be out of favour when it comes to research funding but a survey of students says the topic has a major influence on young people deciding to do physics at undergraduate level...